2015 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament Explained

All Japan High School Soccer Tournament
Year:	2015
Country:	Japan
Num Teams:	48
Champions:	Higashi Fukuoka High School
Count:	1
Runner-Up:	Kokugakuin Kugayama High School
Top Goal Scorer:	Mitsuki Murakami (Teikyo Daisan, 5 goals)
Prevseason:	2014
Nextseason:	2016

The 2015 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (All Japan JFA 94th High School Soccer Tournament (Japanese: 第94回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会) marked the 94th edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan.^[1]

Calendar

Round	Date	Matches	Teams
First round	30–31 December 2015	16
Second round	2 January 2016	16	32 (16+16) → 16
Third round	3 January 2016	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	5 January 2016	4	8 → 4
Semi-finals	9 January 2016	2	4 → 2
Final	11 January 2016	1	2 → 1

Source:^[2]

Venues

The tournament was played in four prefectures and nine stadiums, with six (two for each prefecture) located in Chiba, Kanagawa, and Tokyo Prefectures, and three located in Saitama. They are:

Tokyo – Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka, and Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium
Saitama – Saitama Stadium 2002, Urawa Komaba Stadium and NACK5 Stadium Omiya
Kanagawa – NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium and Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium
Chiba – Fukuda Denshi Arena and ZA Oripri Stadium

Participating clubs

In parentheses: the amount of times each team qualified for the All Japan High School Tournament (appearance in the 2015 edition included)

Hokkaido: Sapporo Otani High School (2) Aomori: Aomori Yamada High School (21) Iwate: Tono High School (25) Akita: Akita Shogyo High School (41) Miyagi: Seiwa Gakuen High School (3) Yamagata: Nihon Univ. Yamagata High School (13) Fukushima: Shoshi High School (7) Ibaraki: Meishu Gakuen Hitachi High School (1) Tochigi: Yaita Chuo High School (7) Gunma: Maebashi Ikuei High School (19) Saitama: Shochi Fukaya High School (2) Chiba: Ichiritsu Funabashi High School (20) Tokyo A: Kokugakuin Univ. Kugayama High School (7) Tokyo B: Komazawa Univ. High School (2) Kanagawa: Toko Gakuen High School (9) Niigata: Niigata Meikun High School (6) Nagano: Tokyo City Univ. Shiojiri High School (4) Yamanashi: Teikyo Daisan High School (10) Toyama: Toyama Daiichi High School (26) Ishikawa: Seiryo High School (26) Fukui: Maruoka High School (28) Gifu: Kakamihara High School (4) Shizuoka: Fujieda Higashi High School (25) Aichi: Chukyo Univ. Chukyo High School (15)	Mie: Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo High School (32) Shiga: Yasu High School (9) Kyoto: Kyoto Tachibana High School (5) Osaka: Hannan High School (1) Hyōgo: Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School (9) Nara: Kashiba High School (3) Wakayama: Hatsushiba Hashimoto High School (14) Tottori: Yonago Kita High School (11) Shimane: Taisha High School (9) Okayama: Tamano Konan High School (8) Hiroshima: Hiroshima Minami High School (12) Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Kojo High School (1) Tokushima: Naruto High School (4) Kagawa: Takamatsu Minami High School (2) Ehime: Matsuyama Kogyo High School (5) Kōchi: Meitoku Gijuku High School (6) Fukuoka: Higashi Fukuoka High School (17) Saga: Saga Kita High School (7) Nagasaki: Nagasaki Nanzan High School (1) Kumamoto: Ohzu High School (16) Ōita: Oita High School (8) Miyazaki: Nissho Gakuen High School (12) Kagoshima: Kagoshima Josei High School (6) Okinawa: Naha Nishi High School (14)

Schedule

Final

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GK	1	Atsushi Wakino
DF	2	Yuto Hayashi
DF	5	Sota Fukuchi
DF	13	Itsuki Oda
DF	15	Shintaro Kodama
MF	4	Yuya Kuwasaki
MF	6	Kotaro Fujikawa
MF	8	Kazuyuki Hashimoto
MF	10	Kento Nakamura (c)
MF	11
FW	9	Daiki Mochiyama
Substitutes:
GK	14	Masaya Maeshima
DF	3	Tatsuya Fukushige
DF	12	Eiji Yamada
MF	18	Mizuki Saburomaru
MF	23	Kanta Ushijima
MF	24
FW	7
FW	20
FW	22	Takahiko Nakayama
Manager:
Junya Morishige

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GK	1	Meguru Hirata
DF	2	Kyohei Nomura
DF	4	Tatsuya Kamikaseda
DF	5	Nao Miyahara (c)
DF	6	Migaku Yamamoto
MF	3	Kosuke Chiku
MF	7	Yotaro Suzuki
MF	14	Takumi Nagura
FW	8	Shun Uchioke
FW	9	Kazuki Kobayashi
FW	10	Masaya Shibuya
Substitutes:
GK	17	Yuta Okada
DF	12	Yuma Koizumi
DF	13	Keisuke Toda
DF	19	Shunsuke Yamaguchi
MF	15	Kosuke Hiruma
MF	16	Yudai Kawano
MF	18	Tomohiro Fujita
FW	11	Masashi Tashimada
FW	20	Kenshiro Ando
Manager:
Yasutaka Shimizu

Assistant referees

Yosuke Takebe
Isao Nishihashi
Fourth official

Kenta Tsukada

Top scorers

Rank	Player^[3]	High School	Goals
1	Mitsuki Murakami	Teikyo Daisan	5
2	Daiki Mochiyama	Higashi Fukuoka	4
	Koki Ogawa	Toko Gakuen
	Issei Takahashi	Aomori Yamada
5	18 players tied		2

Notes and References

Web site: 第94回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会 TOP. 22 January 2023. ja. jfa.jp. Japan Football Association.
Web site: 日程・結果. 22 January 2023. ja. jfa.jp. Japan Football Association.
Web site: 2015 Japan Highschool Soccer Tournament. 16 May 2024. ja. soccer-db.net.