| Competition: | J3 League |
| Season: | 2024 |
| Dates: | 24 February – 24 November |
| Matches: | 230 |
| Total Goals: | 555 |
| League Topscorer: | Kensei Ukita (11 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Fukushima United FC 9-0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (28 April 2024) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Zweigen Kanazawa 2–6 FC Osaka (9 March 2024) |
| Highest Scoring: | Fukushima United FC 9-0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (28 April 2024) |
| Highest Attendance: | 14,411 Matsumoto Yamaga 1–1 AC Nagano Parceiro (29 June)[1] |
| Lowest Attendance: | 515 Iwate Grulla Morioka 2–1 Nara Club (10 April) |
| Attendance: | 708,378[2] |
| Average Attendance: | 3,080[3] |
| Prevseason: | 2023 |
| Nextseason: | 2025 |
| Updated: | 21:28, 28 July 2024 (UTC) |
The 2024 J3 League, also known as the for sponsorship reasons, is the 11th season of the J3 League, the third-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2013.
The league will continue with 20 teams for the 2024 season.
The top two teams in the league will be automatically promoted to the J2 League, provided they have the necessary license. The 2024 season introduces a promotion play-offs, where one of the teams ranked 3rd to 6th will also be promoted.
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.[4]
The league and match format was announced on 19 December 2023. The league will begin on 23 February and end on 10 November in a round-robin format of 38 matches.
The J3 promotion play-offs will be held in a similar manner to the J2 playoffs, with the semi-finals on 1 December with the final taking place on 7 December.[5]
Zweigen Kanazawa and Omiya Ardija were relegated to the J3 League, finishing the previous J2 League season as 21st and 22nd-placed teams, respectively. Zweigen Kanazawa are returning to the J3 League after nine seasons in the second-tier. Omiya Ardija will be competing in the third-tier for the first time as a J.League member.
No teams were relegated from the 2023 J3 League. This is only the second time in J3 history that there will be no new clubs promoted from the JFL.
J3 winners Ehime FC and runners-up Kagoshima United were both promoted from the 2023 season.
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in the table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zweigen Kanazawa | Masaaki Yanagishita | End of contract | 5 November 2023 | Pre-season | Akira Ito | 11 December 2023 | [6] [7] | |
| Giravanz Kitakyushu | Shinji Kobayashi | Resigned | 22 November 2023 | Kohei Masumoto | 15 December 2023 | [8] [9] | ||
| Gainare Tottori | Kohei Matsumoto (interim) | End of interim spell | 24 November 2023 | Kentaro Hayashi | 8 December 2023 | [10] [11] | ||
| Fukushima United | Mitsumasa Yoda | Resigned | 27 November 2023 | Shuhei Terada | 13 December 2023 | [12] [13] | ||
| FC Osaka | Ryo Shigaki | Signed by Renofa Yamaguchi | 5 December 2023 | Naoto Otake | 18 December 2023 | [14] [15] | ||
| Tegevajaro Miyazaki | Mitsuo Kato | Resigned | 5 December 2023 | Yuji Okuma | 19 December 2023 | [16] [17] | ||
| Omiya Ardija | Masato Harasaki | 9 November 2023 | Tetsu Nagasawa | 11 December 2023 | [18] [19] | |||
| FC Imabari | Naoto Kudo | 10 December 2023 | Toshihiro Hattori | 11 December 2023 | [20] [21] | |||
| Iwate Grulla Morioka | Tetsuji Nakamikawa | Management restructure | 8 May 2024 | 20th | Takuya Jinno | 8 May 2024 | [22] | |
| SC Sagamihara | Kazuyuki Toda | Contract terminated[23] | 19 June 2024 | 9th | Yuki Richard Stalph | 26 June 2024 | [24] | |
| FC Gifu | Yusaku Ueno | Resigned | 27 June 2024 | 11th | Kenichi Amano (interim) | 28 June 2024 | [25] |
From the 2021 season onwards, there is no limitations on signing foreign players, but clubs could only register up to five of them for a single matchday squad.[26] Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Qatar) were exempted from these restrictions.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kensei Ukita | AC Nagano Parceiro | 13 |
| 2 | Hayato Asakawa | Matsumoto Yamaga | 11 |
| Yuya Taguchi | FC Gifu | ||
| 4 | Haruto Shirai | FC Ryukyu | 10 |
| Ryo Nagai | Giravanz Kitakyushu | ||
| 6 | Ryo Shiohama | Fukushima United FC | 10 |
| Kenyu Sugimoto | Omiya Ardija | ||
 Marcus Índio | FC Imabari | ||
| 9 | Hagumi Wada | Azul Claro Numazu | 8 |
| Takumi Tsukui | Azul Claro Numazu | ||
| Kosuke Fujioka | FC Gifu | ||
| Yuki Okada | Nara Club | ||
| Keigo Hashimoto | Tegevajaro Miyazaki |
| Month | Manager of the Month | Monthly MVP | Goal of the Month | Young Player of the Month | References | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | ||
| February/March | Yusaku Ueno | FC Gifu | Kosuke Fujioka | FC Gifu | Yumeki Yokoyama | FC Imabari | Rion Ichihara | Omiya Ardija | [29] [30] [31] [32] |
| April | Tetsu Nagasawa | Omiya Ardija | Hagumi Wada | Azul Claro Numazu | Genta Ito | FC Imabari | Yuto Ozeki | Fukushima United | [33] [34] [35] [36] |
| May | Shuhei Terada | Fukushima United | Yu Tomidokoro | FC Ryukyu | Yu Tomidokoro | FC Ryukyu | Yuki Kajiura | Zweigen Kanazawa | [37] [38] [39] [40] |
| June | Kohei Masumoto | Giravanz Kitakyushu | Arthur Silva | Omiya Ardija | Keisuke Ito | SC Sagamihara | Kosei Okazawa | FC Ryukyu | [41] [42] [43] [44] |
| July | Toshihiro Hattori | FC Imabari | Ryo Nagai | Giravanz Kitakyushu | Takuya Sugai | Azul Claro Numazu | Yumeki Yokoyama | FC Imabari | [45] [46] [47] [48] |
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