2012.01.21
League announced first home matches for each clubs
J.League announced J1 and J2's first two weeks fixtures on 17th Jan.
J1 will be kicked off on 10th March, 2012.
The league format follows;
J1
18 clubs home-and-away league from spring to winter 2012.
J1 match is mostly played on Saturday .
FC Tokyo, Sagan Tosu, and Consadore Sapporo are protemoted from J2 to
play 2012 J1 league.
Champions will be qualified to 2012 FIFA Club World Cup as the host
coutry champion.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place club will be qualified to 2013 ACL.
16th, 17th, and 18th place club will be relegated to 2013 J2.
J2
Expanded 22 clubs home-and-away league from spring to winter 2012.
J2 match is mostly played on Sunday .
Machida Zelvia and Matsumoto Yamaga FC joined to J.League from
JFL.
Top two clubs and a winner play-offs* will promote to 2013 J1
and upto two clubs will
be relagated to lower division** .
* J1 promotion play-offs:
A knock out tournament to decide the 3rd J1 promotion seat from four
clubs. Semifinals will be 3rd vs 6th (3rd's home) and 4th vs 5th
(4th's home). The final is on the neutral place.
** Relegation to lower division:
As J2 clubs reached to the limit 22, the relagation from J2 is newly
introduced from this season. Upto two clubs will be relagated to JFL.
J2 22nd team is automatigally relagated and 21st goes to the test
match against JFL 2nd to decide the one to play in J2.
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