2023 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament
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The 2023 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (第102回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会; All Japan JFA 102nd High School Soccer Tournament) marked the 102nd edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan, contested by all 48 prefectural qualifications' winning schools.[1][2]
Tournament details | |
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Country | Japan |
Dates | 28 December 2023 – 8 January 2024 |
Teams | 48 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Aomori Yamada (4th title) |
Runner-up | Ohmi |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 47 |
Goals scored | 146 (3.11 per match) |
Attendance | 358,820 (7,634 per match) |
Top goal scorer(s) | Riku Gunji (Ichiritsu Funabashi) Soji Yoneya (Aomori Yamada) (5 goals) |
2024 → |
The defending champions were Okayama Gakugeikan, from Okayama Prefecture, who won the 2022 final with a 3–1 win over Kyoto Prefecture's Higashiyama in the Final, becoming the first high school from Okayama to ever win the competition. They won the title despite not playing at the top tier of Japan's youth league system, having finished the previous season as a mid-table team in the Chugoku Prince League, one of the nine regional leagues that composes the second tier.[3][4]
As the norm, from the first round to the quarterfinals, the matches had a duration of 80 minutes, split into two halves of 40 minutes each (not counting injury time). The semi-finals and the final had matches the traditional format of around 90 minutes, however, matching the standard match length of professional football. During the tournament, if a match should be tied, it directly required a penalty shoot-outs, except for the final, where extra-time would be played if the match was kept tied for 90 minutes.
The entire tournament, including the prefectural tournament finals, was streamed on SportsBull[5] and TVer free of charge.[6] The semi-finals and the final were aired on NTV.[7] Alongside it, NTV G+ in cable TV.,[8] NTV and Nippon News Network (NNN) local stations has also shown selected games from the first round to the quarter-finals.