2018 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament Explained

All Japan High School Soccer Tournament
Year:2018
Country:Japan
Num Teams:48
Champions:Aomori Yamada
Count:2
Runner-Up:RKU Kashiwa
Top Goal Scorer:Itsuki Someno (Shoshi)
Shoya Fujii (Rissho Shonan)
Yusei Otake (Ozu)
(5 goals)
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2019

The 2018 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (All Japan JFA 97th High School Soccer Tournament (Japanese: 第97回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会)) marked the 97th edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan.[1] [2] Aomori Yamada became the champions after winning past Ryutsu Keizai Kashiwa by 3–1.[3]

Calendar

The schedule, kick-offs and match pairings were confirmed on 19 November 2018.[4]

Round Date Matches Teams
First round30–31 December 2018 16
Second round2 January 2019 16 32 (16+16) → 16
Third round3 January 2019 8 16 → 8
Quarter-finals5 January 2019 4 8 → 4
Semi-finals12 January 2019 2 4 → 2
Final14 January 2019 1 2 → 1

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.[5] They are:

Participating clubs

In parentheses: the amount of times each team qualified for the All Japan High School Tournament (appearance in the 2018 edition included)

Schedule

First round

Except for the opening match, played at 30 December, all the matches in the round were played at 31 December.[6]

Final

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GK 1 Masahiro Iida (c)
DF 2 Shunya Hashimoto
DF 3 Motoya Toyoshima
DF 4 Seiya Nikaido
DF 5 KennedyEgbus Mikuni
DF 15 Takafumi Sawada
MF 6 Taiki Amagasa
MF 7
MF 10 Riku Danzaki
MF 11 Byron Vásquez
FW 9 Ginji Sasaki
Substitutes:
GK 12 Rui Sammonji
DF 16 Subaru Toriumi
DF 17
DF 20 Shunto Kanda
MF 8 Mahiro Take
MF 14 Toshiaki Shishido
MF 26 Rukia Urakawa
FW 13 Keito Komatsu
FW 22 Yosuke Minamitani
Manager:
Go Kuroda
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GK 1 Sota Matsubara
DF 3 Ryui Sunaga
DF 4 Hayata Nishio
DF 5 Ikuma Sekigawa
DF 28 Hiroki Yokota
MF 8 Naoki Kitajima
MF 9 Ryu Okamoto
MF 10 Kazuki Kumasawa
MF 18 Koshi Yagi
MF 20 Kaito Fujii
FW 14 Kaito Satori (c)
Substitutes:
GK 17 Kosuke Inose
DF 2 Satoshi Irie
DF 16 Yuki Seimiya
MF 6 Hayato Nakai
MF 11 Yuma Serita
MF 19 Yuto Furuya
MF 21 Musashi Watarai
MF 23 Hiroto Hazama
FW 24 Kanta Yonekura
Manager:
Yuichiro Honda
Assistant referees


Osamu Nomura
Noriyuki Suzuki
Fourth official


Shota Uchiyama

Match rules
  • 90 minutes.
  • Extra-time of 10 minutes for each half if scores still level.
  • Persisting a draw after extra-time, a penalty shoot-out would be held.
  • Nine named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions.

Top scorers

RankPlayer[7] High SchoolGoals
1 Shoya FujiiRissho Shonan5
Yusei OtakeOhzu
Itsuki SomenoShoshi
4 Riku DanzakiAomori Yamada4
Misaki HaruyamaTeikyo Nagaoka
Kazuma NagataOkayama Gakugeikan

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 第97回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会 TOP. 12 January 2023. ja. jfa.jp. Japan Football Association.
  2. Web site: PICK UP記事詳細. 21 March 2023. ja. jfa.jp. 11 January 2019 . Gekisaka.
  3. Web site: 【結果一覧】第97回全国高校サッカー選手権(2019年1月14日更新). 21 March 2023. soccer-king.jp. 14 January 2019 . Soccer King.
  4. Web site: 日程・結果. 12 January 2023. ja. jfa.jp. Japan Football Association.
  5. Web site: 会場アクセス. 21 March 2023. ja. jfa.jp. Japan Football Association.
  6. Web site: 2018年度 第97回全国高校サッカー選手権大会. 21 March 2023. ja. koko-soccer.com. Koko Soccer.
  7. Web site: 2018 Japan Highschool Soccer Tournament. 16 May 2024. ja. soccer-db.net.