2018 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament

2018 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament
Tournament details
Country	Japan
Dates	30 December 2018 – 14 January 2019
Teams	48
Final positions
Champions	Aomori Yamada (2nd title)
Runner-up	RKU Kashiwa
Tournament statistics
Top goal scorer(s)	Itsuki Someno (Shoshi); Shoya Fujii (Rissho Shonan); Yusei Otake (Ozu); (5 goals)
	← 2017 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 round	30–31 December 2018	16	32 (32) → 16
Second round	2 January 2019	16	32 (16+16) → 16
Third round	3 January 2019	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	5 January 2019	4	8 → 4
Semi-finals	12 January 2019	2	4 → 2
Final	14 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:

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 Kashiwanoha Stadium

Participating clubs

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

Hokkaido: Asahikawa Jitsugyo High School (7) Aomori: Aomori Yamada High School (24) Iwate: Tono High School (28) Miyagi: Sendai Ikuei Gakuen High School (33) Akita: Akita Shogyo High School (44) Yamagata: Haguro High School (7) Fukushima: Shoshi High School (10) Ibaraki: Meishu Gakuen Hitachi High School (3) Tochigi: Yaita Chuo High School (9) Gunma: Maebashi Ikuei High School (22) Saitama: Urawa Minami High School (12) Chiba: Ryutsu Keizai Univ. Kashiwa High School (6) Tokyo A: Kokushikan Univ. High School (4) Tokyo B: Komazawa Univ. High School (4) Kanagawa: Toko Gakuen High School (11) Yamanashi: Aviation High School (2) Nagano: Tokyo City Univ. Shiojiri High School (5) Niigata: Teikyo Nagaoka High School (6) Toyama: Toyama Daiichi High School (29) Ishikawa: Seiryō High School (28) Fukui: Maruoka High School (29) Shizuoka: Hamamatsu Kaiseikan High School (1) Aichi: Toho High School (6) Mie: Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo High School (33)	Gifu: Gifu Kogyo High School (26) Shiga: Kusatsu Higashi High School (10) Kyoto: Higashiyama High School (3) Osaka: Osaka Gakuin Univ. High School (1) Hyōgo: Kwansei Gakuin High School (10) Nara: Ichijo High School (9) Wakayama: Wakayama Kita High School (11) Tottori: Yonago Kita High School (14) Shimane: Rissho Univ. Shonan High School (17) Okayama: Okayama Gakugeikan High School (2) Hiroshima: Setouchi High School (1) Yamaguchi: Saikyo High School (3) Kagawa: SGU Kagawa Nishi High School (11) Tokushima: Tokushima Ichiritsu High School (16) Ehime: Uwajima Higashi High School (5) Kōchi: Kochi Nishi High School (2) Fukuoka: Higashi Fukuoka High School (20) Saga: Ryukoku High School (1) Nagasaki: Nagasaki IAS High School (6) Kumamoto: Ohzu High School (17) Ōita: Oita High School (10) Miyazaki: Nissho Gakuen High School (14) Kagoshima: Kamimura Gakuen High School (6) Okinawa: Naha Nishi High School (16)

Schedule

First round

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

30 December 2018 Match 1	Komazawa	1–1 (9–10 p)	Naha Nishi	Saitama
14:05	Taito Harada 36'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Towa Miyaguni 56'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002
	Penalties
	Gaku Saito Atsuhiro Eto Hiroki Inai Ren Wakui Yuto Tokita Seia Suzuki Sota Kobayashi Taiga Teshima Rikuto Morita Wataru Yamada Masataka Miyazaki		Kai Miyagi Ryuga Oshiro Raiki Higa Kaito Shimoji Shogo Higashifunamichi Futa Kyoda Ayato Uehara Hibiki Uehara Hiyu Nakahodo Yugo Arakaki Kaito Arakaki

31 December 2018 Match 2	Urawa Minami	0–4	Higashi Fukuoka	Saitama
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Shingo Omori 16', 21' Kazuya Noyori 22' Ryotaro Araki 47'	Stadium: NACK5 Stadium Omiya

31 December 2018 Match 3	Shoshi	1–1 (5–3 p)	Kamimura Gakuen	Saitama
14:10	Ryota Ito 55'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Seiya Kumamoto 80+1'	Stadium: NACK5 Stadium Omiya
	Penalties
	Sukai Numata Shunsuke Ishikawa Malick Fofana Takumi Kawamura Naoki Kase		Ryuya Shimada Seiya Kumamoto Taishi Omori Takuya Norimatsu

31 December 2018 Match 4	Teikyo Nagaoka	6–0	Kochi Nishi	Saitama
12:05	Teppei Yachida 12' Misaki Haruyama 18', 43', 46' Naoto Toji 59' Hinata Isogai 80+3'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Urawa Komaba Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 5	Asahikawa Jitsugyo	2–0	Wakayama Kita	Saitama
14:10	Riku Yamauchi 33', 60'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Urawa Komaba Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 6	Toko Gakuen	0–5	Ohzu	Yokohama
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Shun Osaki 5' Yusei Otake 10', 53', 59' Aiki Miyahara 80'	Stadium: NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 7	Toho	1–3	Oita	Kawasaki
12:05	Ryota Nakai 33'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Kaito Tanikawa 7' Takumi Yamaguchi 19' Komei Kikuchi 67'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 8	Gifu Kogyo	0–4	Rissho Shonan	Kawasaki
14:10		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Shoya Fujii 9', 39' Reiju Tsuruno 23', 48'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 9	Tono	0–4	Okayama Gakugeikan	Tokyo
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Tomoya Okada 10' Kazuma Nagata 11', 50', 70'	Stadium: Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka

31 December 2018 Match 10	Sendai Ikuei	4–2	Ichijo	Tokyo
14:10	Taisei Konno 14', 24' Yuya Yagyu 25' Daishi Mita 36'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Ryota Iwamoto 47' Tomoki Matsuyama 67'	Stadium: Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 11	Kokushikan	0–1	Yonago Kita	Tokyo
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Yuta Sakiyama 7'	Stadium: Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 12	Maruoka	2–2 (5–4 p)	Higashiyama	Yokohama
14:10	Neo Tagai 2' Ataru Miyanaga 80+2'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Seia Kunori 33' Tatsuki Inoue 69'	Stadium: NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium
	Penalties
	Ataru Miyanaga Koki Kobayashi Shusuke Baba Neo Tagai Daishin Matsushita		Riku Nagasaka Seia Kunori Yoichi Oyagi Kota Araki Naoto Kumanuki

31 December 2018 Match 13	Toyama Daiichi	3–2	Saikyo	Chiba
14:10	Taiga Sasaki 8', 53' Toshiki Takagi 80+3'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Yuto Kimura 68' Taito Tomita 78'	Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena

31 December 2018 Match 14	Akita Shogyo	2–0	Yokkaichi Chuo	Chiba
12:05	Yu Hasegawa 34' Renshiro Tomita 68'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena

31 December 2018 Match 15	Meishu Hitachi	1–0	Osaka Gakuin	Kashiwa
12:05	Yuta Nihei 25'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Kashiwanoha Stadium

31 December 2018 Match 16	Seiryo	2–0	Kwansei Gakuin	Kashiwa
14:10	Soshi Iwagishi 6', 56'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Kashiwanoha Stadium

Second round

2 January 2019 Match 17	Maebashi Ikuei	2–0	Uwajima Higashi	Saitama
14:10	Keisuke Muroi 18' Itsuki Enomoto 73'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Urawa Komaba Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 18	Higashi Fukuoka	0–2	Shoshi	Saitama
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Kensuke Sakashita 31' Kaito Takahashi 75'	Stadium: Urawa Komaba Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 19	Teikyo Nagaoka	2–2 (17–16 p)	Asahikawa Jitsugyo	Saitama
14:10	Misaki Haruyama 29' Katsuyuki Tanaka 31'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Riku Yamauchi 20' Shuna Konno 69'	Stadium: NACK5 Stadium Omiya
	Penalties
	Yoshihito Koizumi Kyota Maruyama Katsuyuki Tezuka Yumeto Nashimoto Teppei Yachida Hinata Isogai Keita Nagai Gakuto Yaoita Naoto Toji Haruki Yoshida Yui Inokoshi Yoshihito Koizumi Kyota Maruyama Katsuyuki Tezuka Yumeto Nashimoto Teppei Yachida Hinata Isogai Keita Nagai Gakuto Yaoita		Riku Yamauchi Naoki Ejima Chihiro Nishikawa Shuma Konno Shunta Aoki Akinori Taniguchi Ayumu Nishimura Eiki Fujimoto Yuto Kawai Aoi Ishikawa Yuiki Kotake Riku Yamauchi Naoki Ejima Chihiro Nishikawa Shuma Konno Shunta Aoki Akinori Taniguchi Ayumu Nishimura Eiki Fujimoto

2 January 2019 Match 20	Hamamatsu Kaiseikan	0–1	Nagasaki IAS	Saitama
12:05 14:10		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Tsubasa Chiba 63'	Stadium: NACK5 Stadium Omiya

2 January 2019 Match 21	Aomori Yamada	6–0	Kusatsu Higashi	Yokohama
14:10	Taiki Amagasa 13' Hidetoshi Takeda 37' Shunya Hashimoto 53' Mahiro Take 67' Keito Komatsu 68' Byron Vásquez 74'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 22	Ohzu	2–2 (4–2 p)	Oita	Kawasaki
14:10	Yusei Otake 31', 44'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Kyosei Nagamatsu 37' Masato Shigemi 72'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium
	Penalties
	Yuta Mizuno Yusei Otake Shuma Takami Hayato Fukushima		Masato Shigemi Genta Kudo Kazuma Ozawa Kyosei Nagamatsu

2 January 2019 Match 23	Naha Nishi	1–6	Rissho Shonan	Kawasaki
12:05	Ryutaro Takara 37'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Shoya Fujii 14', 66', 69' Katsuyuki Ishibashi 40' Shunta Onishi 70' Yuto Kusaba 78'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 24	Nissho Gakuen	1–2	Yaita Chuo	Yokohama
12:05	? 59' (o.g.)	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Ken Mochizuki 20' Tsubasa Iijima 56'	Stadium: NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 25	TCU Shiojiri	0–1	Setouchi	Tokyo
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Ayumu Nakagawa 22'	Stadium: Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka

2 January 2019 Match 26	Okayama Gakugeikan	1–0	Sendai Ikuei	Tokyo
14:10	Kazuma Nagata 24'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka

2 January 2019 Match 27	Yonago Kita	0–1	Maruoka	Tokyo
14:10		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Hiromu Kawanaka 65'	Stadium: Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 28	Aviation	1–1 (6–5 p)	Kagawa Nishi	Tokyo
12:05	Shinnosuke Inei 64'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Daiki Miyamoto 71'	Stadium: Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium
	Penalties
	Ibuki Nakajima Shinnosuke Inoue Shuto Watanabe Shu Morooka Junhei Sakamoto Koki Kurihara		Renji Miyatani Keigo Shiraishi Gentaro Yoshida Keita Sato Daiki Mizumoto Yosuke Kubo

2 January 2019 Match 29	Haguro	0–3	Ryukoku	Chiba
14:10		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Riku Deguchi 3', 32' Takahiro Goto 9'	Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena

2 January 2019 Match 30	Toyama Daiichi	0–1	Akita Shogyo	Kashiwa
14:10		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Takara Suzuki 69'	Stadium: Kashiwanoha Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 31	Meishu Hitachi	0–1	Seiryo	Kashiwa
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Yoshihiro Ozaki 80+3'	Stadium: Kashiwanoha Stadium

2 January 2019 Match 32	Tokushima Ichiritsu	1–2	RKU Kashiwa	Chiba
12:05	Kenta Oka 56'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Kazuki Kumasawa 60', 71'	Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena

Round of 16

3 January 2019 Match 33	Maebashi Ikuei	1–2	Shoshi	Saitama
12:05	Naoki Takahashi 71'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Sukai Numata 49' Itsuki Someno 51'	Stadium: Urawa Komaba Stadium

3 January 2019 Match 34	Teikyo Nagaoka	2–1	Nagasaki IAS	Saitama
14:10	Teppei Yachida 39' Katsuyuki Tanaka 78'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Toichi Suzuki 20'	Stadium: Urawa Komaba Stadium

3 January 2019 Match 35	Aomori Yamada	3–0	Ohzu	Kawasaki
14:10	Ginji Sasaki 19' Riku Danzaki 23' Yudai Fujiwara 67'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

3 January 2019 Match 36	Rissho Shonan	0–1	Yaita Chuo	Kawasaki
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Haruki Shirai 2'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

3 January 2019 Match 37	Setouchi	2–1	Okayama Gakugeikan	Tokyo
12:05	Ayumu Nakagawa 40', 55'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Tomoya Okada 26'	Stadium: Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

3 January 2019 Match 38	Maruoka	2–3	Aviation	Tokyo
14:10	Fukashi Yamashita 12' Ataru Miyanaga 28'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Jumpei Sakamoto 32' ? 39' (o.g.) Shota Oda 46'	Stadium: Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium

3 January 2019 Match 39	Ryukoku	1–1 (2–4 p)	Akita Shogyo	Chiba
14:10	Shinji Imamura 17'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Shota Yamamoto 80'	Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena
	Penalties
	Takahiro Goto Mitsuki Terasaka Shinji Imamura Akira Unoki		Takara Suzuki Kaiyo Takahashi Kazuya Kashiwaya Yu Hasegawa

3 January 2019 Match 40	Seiryo	0–1	RKU Kashiwa	Chiba
14:10		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Ikuma Sekigawa 5'	Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena

Quarter-finals

5 January 2019 Match 41	Shoshi	1–0	Teikyo Nagaoka	Kawasaki
14:10	Itsuki Someno 22'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium Attendance: 13,749 Referee: Shuhei Ishimaru

5 January 2019 Match 42	Aomori Yamada	2–1	Yaita Chuo	Kawasaki
12:05	Seiya Nikaido 40', 66'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Seiya Majima 14'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium Attendance: 10,785 Referee: Daisuke Yamaguchi

5 January 2019 Match 43	Setouchi	1–0	Aviation	Chiba
14:10	Kanta Yoshida 37'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)		Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena Attendance: 5,159 Referee: Takuya Ujihara

5 January 2019 Match 44	Akita Shogyo	0–1	RKU Kashiwa	Chiba
12:05		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Koshi Yagi 6'	Stadium: Fukuda Denshi Arena Attendance: 8,425 Referee: Taichi Tsuruoka

Semi-finals

12 January 2019 Match 45	Shoshi	3–3 (2–4 p)	Aomori Yamada	Saitama
12:05	Itsuki Someno 26', 68', 75'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Riku Danzaki 56' KennedyEgbus Mikuni 63' Keito Komatsu 87'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 Attendance: 18,924 Referee: Reo Tanaka
	Penalties
	Sukai Numata Taiju Yoshida Shunsuke Ishikawa Malik Fofana		Riku Danzaki KennedyEgbus Mikuni Taiki Amagasa Motoya Toyoshima Yudai Fujiwara

12 January 2019 Match 46	Setouchi	0–5	RKU Kashiwa	Saitama
14:20		Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Ryu Okamoto 4' Kaito Fujii 10' Ikuma Sekigawa 42' Kazuki Kumasawa 54' Musashi Watarai 74'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 Attendance: 23,083 Referee: Kazuyoshi Karashima

Final

14 January 2019

14:08

Aomori Yamada	3−1	RKU Kashiwa
Riku Danzaki 40', 63' Keito Komatsu 88'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Ikuma Sekigawa 32'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 54,194

Referee: Masuya Ueda


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	90+2'
MF	6	Taiki Amagasa
MF	7	Hidetoshi Takeda	73'
MF	10	Riku Danzaki
MF	11	Byron Vásquez
FW	9	Ginji Sasaki	80'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Rui Sammonji
DF	16	Subaru Toriumi
DF	17	Yudai Fujiwara	73'
DF	20	Shunto Kanda
MF	8	Mahiro Take	90+2'
MF	14	Toshiaki Shishido
MF	26	Rukia Urakawa
FW	13	Keito Komatsu	80'
FW	22	Yosuke Minamitani
Manager:
Go Kuroda


GK	1	Sota Matsubara
DF	3	Ryui Sunaga
DF	4	Hayata Nishio
DF	5	Ikuma Sekigawa
DF	28	Hiroki Yokota
MF	8	Naoki Kitajima	61'
MF	9	Ryu Okamoto	72'
MF	10	Kazuki Kumasawa
MF	18	Koshi Yagi	67'
MF	20	Kaito Fujii	89'
FW	14	Kaito Satori (c)
Substitutes:
GK	17	Kosuke Inose
DF	2	Satoshi Irie
DF	16	Yuki Seimiya	82'
MF	6	Hayato Nakai
MF	11	Yuma Serita	61'
MF	19	Yuto Furuya	89'
MF	21	Musashi Watarai	67' 82'
MF	23	Hiroto Hazama	72'
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

Rank	Player^[7]	High School	Goals
1	Shoya Fujii	Rissho Shonan	5
	Yusei Otake	Ohzu
	Itsuki Someno	Shoshi
4	Riku Danzaki	Aomori Yamada	4
	Misaki Haruyama	Teikyo Nagaoka
	Kazuma Nagata	Okayama Gakugeikan

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