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2020 J3 League

The 2020 J3 League, referred to as the 2020 Meiji Yasuda J3 League (Japanese: 2020 明治安田生命J3リーグ, Hepburn: 2020 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 7th season of J3 League under its current name.

Season
27 June – 20 December
Blaublitz Akita(2nd title)
Blaublitz AkitaSC Sagamihara
none (for season 2020 only)
306
791 (2.58 per match)
Kaito TaniguchiRoasso Kumamoto(18 goals)
5 - 0 Azul Claro Numazu v Cerezo Osaka U23
6-4 Kagoshima United v Gamba Osaka U23 5-5 Yokohama Sports & Culture Club v Gamba Osaka U23
9 Blaublitz Akita 27 June to 9 August 2020
28 Blaublitz Akita 27 June to 18 November 2020
6,297Nagano v Grulla 0-2
0 (due to COVID-19)
348,875
1,140
← 2019 2021 →
All statistics correct as of 20 December 2020.

The 2020 J3 League, referred to as the 2020 Meiji Yasuda J3 League (Japanese: 2020 明治安田生命J3リーグ, Hepburn: 2020 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 7th season of J3 League under its current name.

Blaublitz Akita won the J3 title for the second time in their history. They were promoted to the 2021 J2 League alongside SC Sagamihara. Both teams won promotion for the J2 League for the first time.

On 19 March, the J.League announced no relegation would take place for the 2020 season, with the J1 League expanding to 20 clubs for the 2021 season.

This is last season to with three U-23 teams from J1 in 2020 season. J3 League has been scheduled for a reduction to 15 clubs before the 2021 season.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic-related concerns, the Japan Football Association (JFA) opted to postpone the beginning of the season, firstly established for 7 March.

On 25 February, all J.League matches until 15 March were postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. After that, it was announced that it would be postponed until 29 March. On March 19, the J.League announced no relegation would take place for the 2020 season, with the J1 League expanding to 20 clubs for the 2021 season. On 25 March, the league announced that the season would be suspended between 3 April and 6 May.

On 3 April, it was decided to start over with the official game schedule, which aimed to gradually resume J3 from 25 April, J2 from 2 May, and J1 from 9 May. Note that, considering a new schedule in the future, the schedule would have called for the season's resumption at least one month later and later in the month.

On 29 May, J.League announced its decision to resume on 27 June. On 9 June, the schedules of the 2020 season were published. On 15 June, new dates were also published. The first 2 matches in each league (J3 1st-2nd section) were held without spectators. After 10 July, as a general rule, the maximum number of people were 5,000 (stadiums with lower capacity are those with less than 50% of the capacity of people watching; no away supporters allowed). After August, the maximum stadium capacity was 50%, and there would be "high alert spectator matches".

After that, at the 11th J.League extraordinary executive committee meeting on 20 July, it was announced that the "super strict alert audience game" was extended to 10 August in view of the spread of coronavirus infection.

Promoted from 2019 JFL	Promoted to 2020 J2 League	Withdrawn / Disbanded
FC Imabari	Giravanz KitakyushuThespakusatsu Gunma	None

2019 season saw two teams promoted to J2 League: Giravanz Kitakyushu won the championship after being for three seasons in the third tier, while Thespakusatsu Gunma won promotion just in the last game of the season. From second division, there was a double automatic relegation for the second time: FC Gifu played their first season in J3 after being in the second division for the last 12 years, when J3 League wasn't even on the cards. Alongside them, an incredible final day of the 2019 season pushed Kagoshima United FC immediately back to J3, just one year after sealing their first-ever participation to the second tier. This is the last J3 League season that featured the U-23 teams from J1 League. On 5 June, FC Tokyo U-23 withdrew from the league.

Also, Japan Football League saw the promotion of another club: after two fifth-placed performances, FC Imabari came third in 2019 and booked their first professional season in their history.

Club name	Home town	Stadium	Capacity	Last season	Licence
Azul Claro Numazu	Numazu	Ashitaka Stadium	10,000	J3（12th）	J3
Blaublitz Akita	Akita	Soyu Stadium	20,125	J3（8th）	J2
FC Gifu	All cities/towns in Gifu	Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium	26,109	Relegated from J2 (22nd)	J1
FC Imabari	Imabari	Arigato Service Dream Stadium	5,000	Promoted from JFL（3rd）	J2
Fukushima United FC	Fukushima	Toho Stadium	21,000	J3（11th）	J3
Gainare Tottori	All cities/towns in Tottori	Axis Bird Stadium	16,033	J3（7th）	J2
Iwate Grulla Morioka	All cities/towns in Iwate	Iwagin Stadium	4,946	J3（18th）	J3
Kamatamare Sanuki	All cities/towns in Kagawa	Pikara Stadium	30,099	J3（14th）	J2
Kagoshima United	Kagoshima	Shiranami Stadium	19,934	Relegated from J2 (21st)	J1
Kataller Toyama	All cities/towns in Toyama	Toyama Athletic Stadium	25,251	J3（4th）	J1
Fujieda MYFC	Cities/towns in Shizuoka Prefecture	Fujieda Soccer Field	13,000	J3（3rd）	J3
Nagano Parceiro	Nagano	Nagano U Stadium	15,491	J3（9th）	J2
Roasso Kumamoto	Kumamoto, Kumamoto	Egao Kenko Stadium	32,000	J3（5th）	J1
SC Sagamihara	Sagamihara	Gion Stadium	15,300	J3（15th）	J2
Vanraure Hachinohe	Eastern cities/towns in Aomori	Prifoods Stadium	5,200	J3（10th）	J3
YSCC Yokohama	Yokohama	Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium	15,454	J3（13th）	J3
Cerezo Osaka U-23	Osaka & Sakai, Osaka	Kincho Stadium	19,904	J3（6th）	-
Gamba Osaka U-23	North cities in Osaka	Panasonic Stadium Suita Expo '70 Commemorative Stadium	39,694 21,000	J3（17th）	-

Club	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Azul Claro Numazu	Masataka Imai	Masayuki Tokutake	Puma
Blaublitz Akita	Ken Yoshida	Naoyuki Yamada	ATHLETA
FC Gifu	Zdravko Zemunović	Tadashi Takeda	New Balance
FC Imabari	Lluís Planagumà	Keishi Kusumi	Adidas
Fukushima United	Takeo Matsuda	Ryosuke Tamura	hummel
Gainare Tottori	Riki Takagi	Masataka Kani	Puma
Iwate Grulla Morioka	Yutaka Akita	Shun Morishita	Under Armour
Kagoshima United FC	Kim Jong-song	Noriyuki Sakemoto	Puma
Kamatamare Sanuki	Kazuhito Mochizuki	Akira Takeuchi	ATHLETA
Kataller Toyama	Ryo Adachi	Junya Imase	GOLDWin
Fujieda MYFC	Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Takuya Sugimoto	gol.
Nagano Parceiro	Yuji Yokoyama	Nobuyuki Abe	Penalty
Roasso Kumamoto	Takeshi Oki	Tomotaka Okamoto	Puma
SC Sagamihara	Fumitake Miura	Seitaro Tomisawa	gol.
Vanraure Hachinohe	Masafumi Nakaguchi	Teppei Chikaishi	ATHLETA
YSCC Yokohama	/ Yuki Stalph	Koichi Miyao	younger
Cerezo Osaka U-23	Kazuhiro Murata	none	Puma
Gamba Osaka U-23	Hitoshi Morishita	none	Umbro

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date ofappointment
Cerezo Osaka U-23	Kazuhiro Murata	Appointed Academy Deputy Director and U-18 Head Coach	28 July 2020	Yoshiaki Maruyama	28 July 2020
FC Gifu	Zdravko Zemunović	Change of director	25 September 2020	Kenji Nakada	25 September 2020

It was decided on 19 March to change the format regarding the rules for promotion/relegation for the end of the season for the J1, J2 and J3 leagues, such that there would be no relegation this season, that two clubs from the J2 League would be promoted to the 2021 J1 League, and that two clubs from the J3 League would be promoted to the 2021 J2 League (subject to licensing regulations).

FC Tokyo U-23's withdrawal was approved at a board meeting held on 5 June, leaving the J3 League with 18 teams.

After matches played on 20 December 2020.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
Kaito Taniguchi	Roasso Kumamoto
Tsugutoshi Oishi	Fujieda MYFC
Takuya Miyamoto	YSCC Yokohama
Ismaila	Fukushima United FC
Rômulo	SC Sagamihara
Tsubasa Yoshihira	Fujieda MYFC
Hayato Asakawa	Roasso Kumamoto
Ryota Nakamura	Blaublitz Akita
Shoji Toyama	Gamba Osaka U-23
Hayate Take	Kataller Toyama
Shota Kawanishi	FC Gifu
Naoki Sanda	Nagano Parceiro
Yosuke Kamigata	Vanraure Hachinohe

Pos	Team	Total	High	Average	Change
1	FC Gifu	44,942	5,222	2,644	−60.2%†
2	Nagano Parceiro	41,629	6,297	2,449	−18.4%†
3	Kagoshima United FC	37,635	3,990	2,214	−61.7%†
4	Roasso Kumamoto	29,111	3,435	1,712	−69.1%†
7	Kataller Toyama	20,681	2,592	1,217	−55.5%†
5	FC Imabari	23,042	2,139	1,355	−56.3%‡
6	Blaublitz Akita	20,761	2,226	1,221	−22.5%†
10	Kamatamare Sanuki	14,767	1,506	869	−58.9%†
11	Gainare Tottori	13,731	1,451	808	−63.8%†
13	Vanraure Hachinohe	11,316	1,066	666	−62.2%†
8	Azul Claro Numazu	15,720	1,890	925	−62.6%†
12	Fujieda MYFC	11,617	1,271	683	−60.7%†
9	SC Sagamihara	15,609	2,664	918	−68.1%†
14	YSCC Yokohama	10,597	1,109	623	−43.1%†
16	Fukushima United	9,902	1,369	582	−53.1%†
15	Gamba Osaka U-23	10,120	2,526	595	−52.9%†
17	Cerezo Osaka U-23	9,511	1,672	559	−53.3%†
18	Iwate Grulla Morioka	8,184	1,024	481	−64.8%†
	League total	348,875	6,297	1,140	−52.4%†

Japan Football Association (JFA)
J.League
2020 J1 League (I)
2020 J2 League (II)
2020 J3 League (III)
2020 Japan Football League (IV)
2020 Japanese Regional Leagues (V/VI)
2020 Fuji Xerox Super Cup (Super Cup)
2020 Emperor's Cup (National Cup)
2020 J.League YBC Levain Cup (League Cup)

Official website, JLeague.jp (in English)

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