69th National Sports Festival of Japan - Preliminary Regional Rounds

Each year the prefectures of Japan compete in numerous sports in the National Sports Festival of Japan. In total there are forty-seven such prefectures. In women's football, sixteen qualifying teams participate in the final competition. This year's event takes place in Nagasaki and so they have qualified automatically as hosts. Hokkaido also qualified automatically and from the remaining regions fourteen teams played a series of play-offs to determine the participants for the final tournament which begins on October 18th with the final on October 21st.


Tohoku

Six teams, with two to qualify. The six teams were split into two groups for a round-robin competition. The two winners would qualify.

Group A
Miyagi  15 - 0  Akita
Akita  1 - 4  Iwate
Miyagi  3 - 0  Iwate

Group B
Fukushima  5- 0  Yamagata
Yamagata  0 - 1  Aomori
Fukushima  6 - 0  Aomori

Miyagi and Fukushima qualify for the final tournament.


Kanto

Eight teams, with two to qualify.

First Round:

Match 1:
Gunma  1 - 3  Kanagawa

Match 2:
Yamanashi  2 - 1  Ibaraki (aet)

Match 3:
Chiba  5 - 1  Saitama

Match 4:
Tochigi  0 - 3  Tokyo


Second round:

Match 5:
Kanagawa  1 - 1  Yamanashi
Kagoshima win 5-4 on penalties

Match 6:
Chiba  0 - 1  Tokyo


Kanagawa and Tokyo qualify for the final tournament.


Hokushin'etsu

Five teams, with one to qualify. Niigata, Nagano and Fukui were given a bye into the Second Round.

First Round:

Match 1:
Ishikawa  2 - 0  Toyama


Second Round:

Match 2:
Nagano  6 - 0  Ishikawa

Match 3:
Niigata  2 - 1  Fukui


Final Match:

Match 4:
Nagano  1 - 3  Niigata

Niigata qualify for the final tournament.


Tokai

Four teams, with two to qualify.

Match 1:
Mie  0 - 1  Aichi

Match 2:
Shizuoka  1 - 0  Gifu

Aichi and Shizuoka qualify for the final tournament.


Kinki

Six teams, with the winners of the knockout tournament to qualify. Osaka and Hyogo received byes into the Second Round.

First Round:

Match 1:
Wakayama  1 - 2  Kyoto

Match 2:
Shiga  4 - 0  Nara

Second Round:

Match 3:
Osaka  2 - 0  Kyoto

Match 4:
Shiga  0 - 3  Hyogo


Final Match:

Match 5:
Osaka  3 - 0  Hyogo

Osaka qualify for the final tournament.


Chugoku

Five teams, with the top two teams to qualify. Yamaguchi, Hiroshima and Okayama received a bye into the Second Round.

First Round:

Match 1:
Shimane  1 - 0  Tottori

Second Round:

Match 2:
Okayama  8 - 0  Shimane

Match 3:
Yamaguchi  1 - 2  Hiroshima


Third-place Play-off Match:

Match 4:
Shimane  0 - 3  Yamaguchi

Final Match:

Match 5:
Okayama  0 - 1  Hiroshima


Hiroshima and Okayama qualify for the final tournament.


Shikoku

Four teams, with the winner to qualify.

First Round:

Match 1:
Ehime  13 - 0  Kochi

Match 2:
Kagawa  1 - 4  Tokushima


Final Match:

Match 3:
Ehime  7 - 1  Tokushima

Ehime qualify for the final tournament.


Kyushu

Seven teams divided into two knockout tournaments, with the two winners to qualify along with the winners of the play-off between the two finals' losers. Oita were given a bye into the Second Round.

First Round:

Match 1:
Miyazaki  0 - 1  Kumamoto

Match 2:
Saga  0 - 5  Kagoshima


Final Match:

Match 3:
Kumamoto  0 - 0  Kagoshima
Kagoshima win 5-4 on penalties

Kagoshima qualify for the final tournament.


First Round:

Match 4:
Fukuoka  7 - 0  Okinawa


Final Match:

Match 5:
Fukuoka  1 - 0  Oita

Fukuoka qualify for the final tournament.


Third-place Play-off:

Match 6:
Kumamoto  1 - 0  Oita

Kumamoto qualify for the final tournament.