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March 7, 2021

Japan American Football League X-League X1 Super 2020

Final Standings

X1 Super 2020	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Stars
A Block
Fujitsu Frontiers (P)	3	3	0	0	123	27	3
Nojima Sagamihara	3	2	1	0	47	79	2
Elecom Kobe Finies	3	1	2	0	52	79	1
IBM Big Blue	3	0	3	0	66	103	0
B Block
Obic Seagulls (P)	2	2	0	0	95	34	2
Panasonic Impulse	2	1	1	0	72	35	1
Tokyo Gas Creators	2	0	2	0	0	98	0

[References: 2; PF-PA Compiled from Results]

Playoffs

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Japan X Bowl 2020		Tokyo Dome
15.12.2020	Obic	13	Fujitsu	7

[References: 3]

Regular Season

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Section 1
24.10.2020	Fujitsu	48	Nojima Sagamihara	3
24.10.2020	Tokyo Gas	0	Panasonic	38
25.10.2020	Elecom Kobe	35	IBM	28
	Section 2
07.11.2020	Fujitsu	41	IBM	21
08.11.2020	Obic	60	Tokyo Gas	0
08.11.2020	Elecom Kobe	14	Nojima Sagamihara	17
	Section 3
21.11.2020	Obic	35	Panasonic	34
22.11.2020	Fujitsu	34	Elecom Kobe	3
23.11.2020	IBM	17	Nojima Sagamihara	27

[References: 4-6]

Players with Irish names

Jimmy Laughrea, from Rocklin, California, played for the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) Aggies with the Class of 2013. in 2020 he played Quarterback for the Obic Seagulls (Narashino City, Chiba Prefecture), of the Japan American Football League X-League X1 Super. He guided Obic Seagulls to a 13-7 victory over the Fujitsu Frontiers in the X-Bowl.

Jimmy Laugrea (UC Davis Aggies, Nojima Sagamihara Rise and Obic Seagulls)

Home Fields

TEAM	CITY, PREFECTURE	HOME GROUND
A Block
Elecom Kobe		Expo Flash Field
Fujitsu		Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki
IBM		Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki
Nojima Sagamihara		???
B Block
Obic	Narashino City, Chiba Prefecture	Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki
Panasonic		???
Tokyo Gas		Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki

[References: 4-6]

References

Images

[1] X-League (2020) logo_xleague [Internet] Available from: https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/xleague/images/logo_xleague.jpg [Accessed 7 March 2021]

Standings

[2] X-League (2021) Standings [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/standing [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[3] X-League (2021) Score [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/score [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[4] X-League (2021) Schedule / Results Section 1[Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/schedule/2020/2020-x1-super-1 [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[5] X-League (2021) Schedule / Results Section 2 [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/schedule/2020/2020-x1-super-2 [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[6] X-League (2021) Schedule / Results Section 3 [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/schedule/2020/2020-x1-super-3 [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[7] X-League (2021) Fujitsu Frontiers [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/fujitsu/player [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[8] X-League (2021) Obic Seagulls Profile [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/obic [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[8] X-League (2021) Obic Seagulls [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/obic/player [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[9] X-League (2021) Panasonic Impulse [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/impulse/player [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[10] X-League (2021) Elecom Kobe Finies [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/elecom/player [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[11] X-League (2021) IBM Big Blue [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/ibm/player [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[12] X-League (2021) Tokyo Gas Creators [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/tokyogas/player [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[13] X-League (2021) Nojima Sagamihara Rise [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/team/rise/player [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[14] UC Davis Aggies (2013) Jimmy Laughrea [Internet] Available from: https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/football/roster/jimmy-laughrea/1198 [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[15] UC Davis Aggies (2018) Jimmy Laughrea-9150487 [Internet] Available from: https://ucdavisaggies.com/images/2018/5/18/9150487.jpeg?width=300 [Accessed 7 March 2021]

[16] Japan Times, Hiroshi Ikezawa (2020) New Obic Seagulls Quarterback Jimmy Laughrea adjusts to fatherhood and preparing for unique season [Internet] Available from: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2020/06/07/more-sports/football/new-obic-quarterback-jimmy-laughrea-adjusts-fatherhood-preparing-unique-season/ [Accessed 7 March 2021]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Caoilfhion Nic Fhearai & Grant Farrell.

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October 22, 2020

Japan Private Football Association JPFF All Japan Championship Ocean Bowl 2011-Present

Japan Private Football Association Logo [Ref: 5]

Ocean Bowl (JPFF East v JPFF West) 2012-Present

Date	*Bowl*	East Japan		West Japan
24.02.2013	19	Urawa Urawers	20	Aggressors	0
16.02.2014	20	Cancelled		Heavy Snow
15.02.2015	21
2016	22
12.02.2017	23	Urawa Urawazu	17	Nagano Blue Purse	0
12.02.2018	24	Urawa Urawazu	26	Bootlegs	0
2019	25	Tachikawa Falcons	21	Nagano Blue Purse	0
2020	26	Urawa Urawazu	38	Kanazawa Weissenberg	0

Japan Private Football Association (JPFF) All Japan Championship Ocean Bowl 2017-Present [Ref: 1-4]

Report

The Japan Private Football Association (JPFF) organizes the All Japan Championship for non-University and non-Social (ie. Business) teams in Japan. teams are clubs with no direct links to Businesses or Universities that compete for the Rice Bowl.

The JPFF is divided into an East Japan and West Japan Block, with the winners meeting in the Ocean Bowl, which has been won three times in the last four years by Urawa Urawazu (Urawa Ulowers), with Tachikawa Falcons winning in 2018-19. The winners on each of the past four occasions have been the JPFF East Champions.

Urawa Urawazu – JPFF Ocean Bowl Champions 2020 [Ref: 6]

References

Websites

[1] Japan Private Football Association East (2019) 2016-17 Result [Internet] Available from: https://jpffeast.jimdofree.com/%E9%81%8E%E5%8E%BB%E3%81%AEresult/2016-17/ [Accessed 10 May 2020]

[2] Japan Private Football Association East (2019) 2017-18 Playoff Game Results [Internet] Available from: https://jpffeast.jimdofree.com/%E9%81%8E%E5%8E%BB%E3%81%AEresult [Accessed 5 March 2019]

[3] Japan Private Football Association East (2019) 2018-19 Result [Internet] Available from: https://jpffeast.jimdofree.com/%E9%81%8E%E5%8E%BB%E3%81%AEresult[Accessed 5 March 2019]

[4] Japan Private Football Association East | Wayback Machine (2020) 2019-2020 Result [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20200510143636/https://jpffeast.jimdofree.com/2019-2020-result/ [Accessed 10 May 2020]

Images

[5] Japan Private Football Association East (2020) JPFF Logo [Internet] Available from: https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=79×10000:format=jpg/path/sce5a977e2e10f41a/image/i123385dd37d4d78c/version/1473861071/image.jpg [Accessed 10 May 2020]

[6[ Urawa Ulowers (2014) Ocean Bowl Champions [Internet] Available from: http://ulowers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B32016%E5%B9%B4%E5%BA%A6-768×388.jpg [Accessed 10 May 2020]

References

Logos

[7] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) hafa [Internet] Available from: http://www.hokkaido-afa.com/img/hafa.jpg [Accessed 22 October 2020]

Websites

[8] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2011 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2011.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[9] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2012 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2012.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[10] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2013 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2013.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[11] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2014 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2014.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[12] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2015 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2015.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[13] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2016 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2016.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[14] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2017 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2017.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[15] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2018 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2018.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[16] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2019 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2019.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Caoilfhionn Nic Fhearai, Grant Farrell, Keiko and John Gunning.

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Last Updated: 22 October 2020

January 8, 2020

Japan American Football Association | X-League 2017-2019

JAFA X-League 2017

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	WS
Super 9
*Panasonic Impulse	6	6	0	0			6
*Fujitsu Frontiers	6	5	1	0			5
*Nojima Sagamihara Rise	6	4	2	0			4
*Lixil Deers	6	4	2	0			4
IBM Big Blue	6	4	2	0			4
Orbic Seagulls	6	3	3	0			3
Elecom Kobe Phi Needs	6	3	3	0			3
Asahi Beer Silver Star	6	2	4	0			2
Asahi Drink Club Challengers	6	2	4	0			4
Battle 9
*All Mitsubishi Lions	6	4	2	0			4
*As One Black Eagles	6	3	3	0			3
Meiji Yasuda Penta Ocean Pirates	6	3	3	0			3
Nagoya Cyclones	6	3	3	0			3
Fuji Xerox Minerva	6	3	3	0			3
Tokyo Gas Creators	6	2	4	0			2
Metropolitan Police Deprtment	6	2	4	0			2
Club Hawkeye	6	1	5	0			1
Bulls FC	6	0	6	0			0

Japan X-League 2017 Final Standings [Reference: 1]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Wild Card Playoffs
05.11.2017	Asahi Beer Silver Star	17	All Mitsubishi Lions	20
05.11.2017	Elecom Kobe Fines	47	As One Black Eagles	13
	Quarter-Finals
11.11.2017	Nojima Sagamihara Rise	22	Obic Seagulls	41
11.11.2017	Fujitsu Frontiers	34	Elecom Kibe Phinees	7
11.11.2017	LIXIL Deers	31	IBM BigBlue	51
12.11.2017	Panasonic Impulse	20	All Mitsubishi Lions	3
	Semi-Finals
26.11.2017	Fujitsu Frontiers	7	Obic Seagulls	0
26.11.2017	Panasonic Impulse	24	IBM BigBlue	31
	Japan X Bowl		Tokyo Dome
18.12.2017	Fujitsu Frontiers	63	IBM BigBlue	23
	Rice Bowl		X-League v College
03.01.2018	Fujotsu Frontiers	37	Nihon Phoenix	9

Japan X-League Playoffs 2017 [Reference: 4-5]

JAFA X-League 2018

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	WS
Super 9
*Fujitsu Frontiers	6	6	0	0			6
*Panasonic Impulse	6	5	1	0			5
*IBM Big Blue	6	5	1	0			5
*Nojima Sagamihara Rise	6	4	2	0			4
*Orbic Seagulls	6	4	2	0			4
*Elecom Kobe Phi Needs	6	3	3	0			3
*Lixil Deers	6	2	4	0			2
*Asahi Beer Silver Star	6	2	4	0			2
Asahi Drink Club Challengers	6	2	4	0			2
Battle 9
*Tokyo Gas Creators	6	5	1	0			5
*All Mitsubishi Lions	6	3	3	0			3
As One Black Eagles	6	3	3	0			3
Meiji Yasuda Penta Ocean Pirates	6	2	4	0			2
Fuji Xerox Minerva AFC	6	2	4	0			2
Dentsu Caterpillars	6	2	4	0			2
Nagoya Cyclones	6	2	4	0			2
Bullseyes Tokyo	6	1	5	0			2
Sidewinders	6	1	5	0			2

Japan X-League 2018 Final Standings [Reference: 2]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Wild-Card Playoff
04.11.2018	Asahi Beer Silver Star	6	All Mitsubishi Lions	17
04.11.2018	LIXIL Deers	7	Tokyo Gas Creators	14
	Quarter Final
10.11.2018	Nojima Sagamihara Rise	25	OBIC Seagulls	42
10.11.2018	Fujitsu Frontiers	35	All Mitsubishi Lions	7
10.11.2018	IBM BigBlue	34	Elecom Kobe Finies	23
10.11.2018	Panasonic Impulse	45	Tokyo Gas Creators	0
	Semi-Finals
25.11.2018	Fujitsu Frontiers	13	OBIC Seagulls	10
25.11.2018	Panasonic Impulse	17	IBM Big Blue	24
	Japan X Bowl		Tokyo Dome
17.12.2018	Fujitsu Frontiers	35	IBM Big Blue	18
	Rice Bowl		X-League v College
03.01.2018	Fujitsu Frontiers	52	Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters	17

Japan X-League Playoffs 2018 [Reference: 3]

Japan X-League 2019

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	WS
X1 Super
*Fujitsu Frontiers	7	7	0	0			7
*Orbic Seagulls	7	6	1	0			6
*Panasonic Impulse	7	5	2	0			5
Elecom Kobe Phi Needs	7	3	4	0			3
IBM BigBlue	7	3	4	0			3
Tokyo Gas Creators	7	3	4	0			3
All Mitsubishi Lions	7	1	6	0			1
Nojima Sagamihara Rise	7	1	6	0			1
X1 Area
Asahi Drink Club Challengers	6	6	0	0			6
Asahi Beer Silver Stars	6	4	2	0			4
LIXIL Deers	6	4	2	0			4
Meiji Yasuda Penta Ocean Pirates	6	4	2	0			4
Dentsu Caterpillars	6	4	2	0			4
Fuji Xerox Minerva AFC	6	4	2	0			4
Miraifu Fukuoka	6	4	2	0			4
Nagoya Cyclones	6	3	3	0			3
Bullseyes	6	2	4	0			2
Metropolitan Police Department	6	1	5	0			1
As One Black Eagles	6	0	6	0			0
AFC Cranes	6	0	6	0			0

Japan X-League Standings 2019 [Reference: 6]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
30.11.2019	Elecom Kobe	13	Fujitsu Frontiers	31
30.11.2019	Panasonic Impulse	24	Orbic Seagulls	14
	Japan X Bowl		Tokyo Dome
16.12.2019	Panasonic Impulse	26	Fujitsu Frontiers	28
	Rice Bowl		X-League v College
03.01.2020	Fujitsu Frontiers	38	Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters	14

Japan X-League 2019 Playoffs [Reference: 8-10]

Note: WS = Winning Stars

Report

The Fujitsu Frontiers won their 4th consecutive Rice Bowl on 3rd January 2020, overwhelming the Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters for the second year in a row, deafeating them by a score of 38-14 in early 2020, after winning 52-17 at the end of the 2018 in early January 2019.

They had a similar resounding victory at the end of the 2017 season, when they won 37-9 against Nihon Phoenix.

About

The X-League is the Professional American Football League Section of the Japan American Football Association. The X-League itself is divided into three Divisions (X1, X2, X3) based on ability, with the X1 League split into a Super 9 and Battle 9 (Top and Bottom) with playoffs to follow. The teams are known as “Social Teams” as opposed to the College Teams, and are made up of Big Businesses.

The winners of the X Bowl meet the College Champions in the Rice Bowl, the Ultimate Game in Japanese American Football.

Action from the 73rd Rice Bowl – January 2020 [Reference: 12]

References

Websites

[1] X-League (2018) Score [2017] [Internet] Available from: http://www.xleague.com/score/ [Accessed 20 January 2018]

[2] X-League (2018) Score [2018] [Internet] Available from: http://www.xleague.com/score/ [Accessed 21 February 2019]

[3] X-League (2018) 2018 X League Game Schedule [Internet] Available from: http://www.xleague.com/english/schedule.php [Accessed 21 February 2019]

[6] X-League (2018) Standings [2019] [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/standing [Accessed 7 January 2020]

[7] X-League (2018) 2019 X League Game Schedule [Internet] Available from: http://www.xleague.com/english/schedule.php [Accessed 7 January 2020]

[8] X-League (2018) 2019 Schedule / Results [Final] [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/section/final [Accessed 7 January 2020]

[9] X-League (2018) 2019 Schedule / Results [Semifinals] [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/section/sf [Accessed 7 January 2020]

[10] X-League (2018) [73rd Rice Bowl] Overwhelming student champion in offense and defense, Fujitsu achieves 4th consecutive victory in Thailand [Internet] Available from: https://xleague.jp/news/7464 [Accessed 7 January 2020]

Internet Archive

[4] X-League | Wayback Machine (2018) 2017 X League Game Schedule [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104221119/http://www.xleague.com/schedule [Accessed 8 January 2020]

[5] X-League | Wayback Machine (2018) 2017 X League Match Result [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20190701111404/http://www.xleague.com/kiroku/archive/result_list.php?url_id=Y2017/L1 [Accessed 8 January 2020]

Images

[11] X-League (2020) X-Logo [Internet] Available from: https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/xleague/images/xlogo.png [Accessed 7 January 2020]

[12] X-League (2020) 73rd Rice Bowl Photo [Internet] Available from: https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/xleague/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/001_m5_01801.jpg [Accessed 7 January 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Caoilfhion Nic Fhearai & Grant Farrell.

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Tag: Japan American Football Association

Japan American Football League X-League X1 Super 2020

Final Standings

Playoffs

Regular Season

Players with Irish names

Home Fields

References

Images

Standings

Acknowledgements

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Japan Private Football Association JPFF All Japan Championship Ocean Bowl 2011-Present

Ocean Bowl (JPFF East v JPFF West) 2012-Present

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References

Websites

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References

Logos

Websites

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Japan American Football Association | X-League 2017-2019

JAFA X-League 2017

JAFA X-League 2018

Japan X-League 2019

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Internet Archive

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