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The result was Keep. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 11:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sagawa Express S.C.[edit]

This is actually a difficult one. The article is well-written, but it's an amateur team with no real secondary sources as far as I can tell. 60-odd hits for the Japanese team name on Google, and 40-odd for the English name. Note that the "Japan Football League" is the third-division league in Japan, not the top-tier competition. Lankiveil (talk) 10:11, 3 January 2008 (UTC) Withdraw nom, as there seems to be a clear Keep consensus. Lankiveil (talk) 11:11, 3 January 2008 (UTC).[reply]

This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Third level champions in a large country like Japan (confirmed by table on www.rsssf.com) seems notable enough to me. - fchd (talk) 10:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - All JFL clubs have articles of similar quality and seems sufficiently notable - Tomperc (talk) 11:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. According to its article the Japan Football League is generally considered as the top amateur league in Japan although many full-time footballers play in the league. That would make it roughly equivalent to the Conference in England, which is considered to be several levels above the bar for notability of clubs. Let's apply equivalent standards to Japan. Phil Bridger (talk) 11:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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