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The 2025 J3 League, also known as the 2025 Meiji YasudaJ3 League (2025 明治安田J3リーグ, 2025 Meiji Yasuda J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is the 12th season of the J3 League, the third-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2013
Overview
The league continued with 20 teams for the 2024 season.
The top two teams in the league will be automatically promoted to the J2 League, teams ranked 3rd to 6th dispute the promotion play-offs.
There is the possibility that as many as two clubs will be relegated to the Japan Football League. Promotion from the JFL is conditional on holding a valid J3 license. If the JFL champions hold a license, the club will be automatically promoted and the J3's 20th-placed team will be automatically relegated. If the JFL runners-up hold a license, the club will need to play promotion/relegation play-offs against J3's 19th or 20th-placed team for the season, depending on whether the JFL champions hold the J3 license. The club(s) who do not hold a license cannot be promoted and no teams will be relegated from the J3 League.
Schedule
The league and match format was announced on 25 November 2024. The league began on 15 February and ended on 29 November in a round-robin format of 38 matches.
The J3 promotion play-offs were held in a similar manner to the J2 playoffs, with the dates will be confirmed in november
Changes from the previous season
Tochigi SC, Kagoshima United and Thespakusatsu Gunma were relegated to the J3 League, finishing the previous J2 League season as 20th, 19th and 18th places. Tochigi gets relegated after eigth years in the second divsion. meanwhile Kagoshima United come back to the third tier after one season in J2. Thespa Gunma back to the league after five years in J2 League.
From J3 win the promotion Red Bull Omiya Ardija (Formerly only Omiya Ardija) team recently acquired for the Red Bull Group. who gets promoted after only one season in J3, the runners-up FC Imabari gets promoted for first time ever and will play the Ehime Derby against Ehime FC in J2 League. the last team promoted was Kataller Toyama after eleven seasons in J3. thanks to a epic draw in the play-off final against Matsumoto Yamaga with a double from the striker Shosei Usui in the last ten minutes.
From Japan Football League teams gets promoted after two seasons.
Tochigi City FC was the champions of 2024 Japan Football League and gets promoted for first time ever and will play the Tochigi Derby against Tochigi SC .
The second team promoted was Kochi United SC runners-up of 2024 Japan Football League and after won the relegation play-off defeated YSCC Yokohama with a aggregate of 1-3, the first team of Kochi Prefecture who play in the J League.
