When the club appointed General Director Hisashi KATO as manager for the first time, it intended to treat him as an interim manager for the remaining seven games (in the end, nine games including Promotion/Demotion Series), but partly because he succeeded in promotion to J1, the club decided that KATO would remain as manager for the next season.
その昇格もあり、当初は残り7試合限定（最終的には、入れ替え戦と合わせて9試合）の暫定監督扱いとして招聘した加藤久総監督の来季留任も決定した。