Regional Football 1996

The 20th Regional Football League Competition

The match days are 31st January, 1st and 2nd Februrary 1997 at Nagai II stadium in Osaka.

y-Teams are promoted to the Japan Football League automatically.

tabel_.Final Round
Team	JAT	PRI	MAZ	HEP	Win(s.o)/Loss(s.o)	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
y- JATCO		1:1 (4:2)	2:1	5:2	3(1)/0(0)	8	4	8
y- Prima Tsuchiura	1:1 (2:4)		1:1 (1:4)	1:0	1(0)/2(2)	3	1	5
Mazda	1:2	1:1 (4:1)		1:1 (4:2)	2(2)/1(0)	3	-1	4
Hokkaido Electric Power	2:5	0:1	1:1 (2:4)		0(0)/3(1)	3	-4	1

Preliminary Rounds

The match days are 17th, 18th and 19th January 1997 at Kumamoto (group A), Mimasaka (group B) and Ishioka (group C&D).

x-Teams progress to the Final Round.

tabel_.Preliminary Round: group A
Team	JAT	ALO	BLA	TEI	Win(s.o)/Loss(s.o)	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- JATCO (Tokai#1)		1:0	2:2 (1:3)	3:1	2(0)/1(1)	6	3	7
Alo's Hokuriku (Hoku-shin-etsu)	0:1		1:0	1:0	2(0)/1(0)	2	1	6
Blaze Kumamoto (Kyushu)	2:2 (3:1)	0:1		6:1	2(1)/1(0)	8	4	5
Teijin (Shikoku)	1:3	0:1	1:6		0(0)/3(0)	2	-8	0

tabel_.Preliminary Round: group B
Team	MAZ	LUM	KAN	Win(s.o)/Loss(s.o)	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- Mazda (Chugoku)		1:1 (2:3)	4:0	1(0)/1(1)	5	4	4
Honda Luminozo Sayama football club (Kanto#1)	1:1 (3:2)		1:1 (3:1)	2(2)/0(0)	2	0	4
NTT Kansai (Kansai)	0:4	1:1 (1:3)		0(0)/2(1)	1	-4	1

tabel_.Preliminary Round: group C
Team	PRI	ALB	SON	Win(s.o)/Loss(s.o)	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- Prima Ham FC Tsuchiura (Kanto#2)		1:1 (7:6)	2:0	2(1)/0(0)	3	2	5
Albireo Niigata (Hoku-shin-etsu)	1:1 (6:7)		5:0	1(0)/1(1)	6	5	4
Sony Sendai (Tohoku)	0:2	0:5		0(0)/2(0)	0	-7	0

tabel_.Preliminary Round: group D
Team	HEP	KYU	HSE	Win(s.o)/Loss(s.o)	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- Hokkaido Electric Power (Hokkaido)		2:0	1:2	1(1)/1(0)	3	1	3
NTT Kyushu (Kyushu)	0:2		2:0	1(1)/1(0)	2	0	3
Hitachi Shimizu (Tokai#2)	2:1	0:2		1(1)/1(0)	2	-1	3

note

Nine champion teams of each Regional Leagues and 2nd place teams of the Regions including the top four teams of last year's tournament are qualified for the tournament.

In the tournament, when regulation time of the match play fails to determine a winner, the winning team is decided in a penalty shoot-out.

All teams play each other one times.
Teams are allotted three points for a win in regulation play, two points for a shoot-out win, one point for a shoot-out loss, and no points for a loss (except shoot-out loss).
The ranking is determined as follows: 1) total of points, 2) goal difference, 3) total of goals.

Alo's Hokuriku changes the team name from Hokuriku Electric Power.

Honda Luminozo Sayama football club changes the team name from Honda Motor Sayama.

Albireo NIIGATA changes the team name from Niigata Eleven.

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finals

x-Teams progress to next round.

Prima ham FC Tsuchiura
- Prima ham FC Tsuchiura
  - Prima ham FC Tsuchiura
    - Prima ham FC Tsuchiura (Kanto)
    - ACM Blux FC
      - ACM Blux FC
      - Osaka Tai-dai Kemari-dan (Kansai)
  - Alo's Hokuriku
    - Alo's Hokuriku
      - Fujisawa public office (Kanto)
      - Alo's Hokuriku (Hoku-shin-etsu)
    - Toyota machine works
      - Nippon Steel Muroran (Hokkaido)
      - Toyota machine works (Tokai)
- Blaze Kumamoto
  - Blaze Kumamoto
    - Blaze Kumamoto
      - Blaze Kumamoto (Kyushu)
      - Tanabe Seiyaku (Kansai)
    - Hiroshima Fujita
      - Hiroshima Fujita soccer club (Chugoku)
      - Otsuka club (Shikoku)
  - Aries Tokyo
    - Aries Tokyo
      - Tokin (Tohoku)
      - Aries football club Tokyo (Kanto)
    - NTT Kansai (Host: Osaka)
Kyoikukenkyusha FC
- Fujieda ofc.
  - Albireo Niigata
    - Albireo Niigata FC (Hoku-shin-etsu)
    - NTT Kyushu
      - NTT Kyushu (Kyushu)
      - Teijin (Shikoku)
  - Fujieda ofc.
    - Yazaki Valente
      - Yazaki Valente FC (Tokai)
      - Sanyo Electric Soft Energy Company (Kansai)
    - Fujieda ofc.
      - Fujieda public office (Tokai)
      - Hokkaido Electric Power (Hokkaido)
- Kyoikukenkyusha FC
  - Kyoikukenkyusha FC
    - Kyoikukenkyusha FC
      - Kyoikukenkyusha FC (Kansai)
      - Yokogawa Electric (Kanto)
    - NSC Yahata
      - Saitama teachers club (Kanto)
      - NSC Yahata FC (Kyushu)
  - Osaka Gas
    - Nippon Steel Kamaishi
      - Fukaya club (Kanto)
      - Nippon Steel Kamaishi (Tohoku)
    - Osaka Gas
      - NKK Fukuyama (Chugoku)
      - Osaka Gas (Kansai)

Results

tabel_.1st Rounds
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
ACM Blux FC	2:2 aet (:)pso	Osaka Tai-dai Kemari-dan	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Fujisawa ofc.	1:3	Alo's Hokuriku	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Nippon Steel Muroran	1:2	Toyota machine works	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Blaze Kumamoto	1:0	Tanabe Seiyaku	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Hiroshima Fujita	6:1	Otsuka club	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Tokin	0:1	Aries Tokyo	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
NTT Kyushu	3:0	Teijin	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Yazaki Valente	2:0	Sanyo SE	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Fujieda ofc.	1:0 aet	Hokkaido Electric Power	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Kyoikukenkyusha FC	2:1	Yokogawa Electric	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Saitama tchrs.	1:2	NSC Yahata	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
Fukaya club	0:5	Nippon Steel Kamaishi	23/11/1996	Takatsuki
NKK Fukuyama	1:3	Osaka Gas	23/11/1996	Takatsuki

tabel_.2nd Rounds
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
Prima ham FC Tsuchiura	3:2	ACM Blux FC	24/11/1996	Takatsuki
Alo's Hokuriku	3:1	Toyota machine works	24/11/1996	Takatsuki
Blaze Kumamoto	4:1	Hiroshima Fujita	24/11/1996	Takatsuki
Aries Tokyo	2:1 aet	NTT Kansai	24/11/1996	Takatsuki
Albireo Niigata	2:1	NTT Kyushu	24/11/1996	Takatsuki
Yazaki Valente	0:1	Fujieda ofc.	24/11/1996	Takatsuki
Kyoikukenkyusha FC	4:1	NSC Yahata	24/11/1996	Takatsuki
Nippon Steel Kamaishi	1:2	Osaka Gas	24/11/1996	Takatsuki

tabel_.Quarter-finals
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
Prima ham FC Tsuchiura	2:1	Alo's Hokuriku	25/11/1996	Takatsuki
Blaze Kumamoto	2:0	Aries Tokyo	25/11/1996	Takatsuki
Albireo Niigata	1:2	Fujieda ofc.	25/11/1996	Takatsuki
Kyoikukenkyusha FC	3:0	Osaka Gas	25/11/1996	Takatsuki

tabel_.Semi-finals
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
Prima ham FC Tsuchiura	1:0	Blaze Kumamoto	26/11/1996	Takatsuki
Fujieda ofc.	0:1	Kyoikukenkyusha FC	26/11/1996	Takatsuki

tabel_.Final
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
Prima ham FC Tsuchiura	1:1 aet (3:4)pso	Kyoikukenkyusha FC	27/11/1996	Takatsuki

note

Alo's Hokuriku changes the team name from Hokuriku Electric Power.

Blaze Kumamoto changes the team name from Toa construction industry.

NSC Yahata changes the team name from Nippon Steel Yahata.

ACM Blux changes the team name from Chuoh Bohhan.

Yazaki Valente FC changes the team name from Yazaki keiki Shimada.

Albireo Niigata changes the team name from Niigata Eleven.