Editor’s Note – With the 2009 season I hope to make Aishiteru Tokyo even better than it was last year; that is to say even when my life is hectic there will still be fresh content. To that end I’ve enlisted my good friend Lantis to help out with “maintenance” posting – injury reports, transfer news, YouTube roundups, and all the things I always seemed to never have time to take care of last season. He’ll also poke me to update my game reports at a regular pace, which will help matters greatly. Hooray more writers! -dokool
Thanks to a reliable source, it appears that the 2009 Nabisco Cup groups have been decided. This year’s format has two groups of seven teams in a single round-robin set of fixtures, with the top two teams from each group joining the four ACL teams in the knockout stage:
Group A
FC Tokyo
JEF United Chiba
Kashiwa Reysol
Kyoto Sanga FC
Montedio Yamagata
Shimizu S-Pulse (again)
Vissel Kobe
Group B
Albirex Niigata
Oita Trinita
Omiya Ardija
Jubilo Iwata
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Urawa Reds
Yokohama F. Marinos
Bye to Quarterfinals
Gamba Osaka
Kashima Antlers
Kawasaki Frontale
Nagoya Grampus
From the source, JEF is coming to Ajinomoto (or possibly Kokuritsu), but who the other home matches are isn’t clear. The full J.League schedule should be out later this month, so the timer is ticking for the 2009 season to kick off.
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