2022 Japanese Super Cup

2022 Japanese Super Cup
Kawasaki Frontale Urawa Red Diamonds
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Date12 February 2022
VenueNissan Stadium, Yokohama
RefereeHiroki Kasahara
Attendance18,558
WeatherFine
8.5 °C (47.3 °F)
40% humidity
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The 2022 Japanese Super Cup (known as FUJIFILM Super Cup 2022 for sponsorship reasons) was the 29th Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment, and the 37th overall. It was held on 12 February 2022 between the 2021 J1 League champions Kawasaki Frontale, whom also the Super Cup holders, and the 2021 Emperor's Cup winners Urawa Red Diamonds at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Kanagawa.[1]

This was Frontale's fourth Super Cup appearance overall, all in the previous five years; they only failed to qualify in 2020 and won twice in 2019 and 2021. At the other hand, this was Urawa's tenth Super Cup appearance and their first since 2019; they previously had won four times (in 1979, 1980, 1983, and 2006).

Ataru Esaka scored in each half to won Urawa their fifth Super Cup ever, second as Urawa Red Diamonds, and the first in 16 years. Frontale lost the Super Cup match for the first time since their maiden appearance in 2018.

Details

Kawasaki Frontale0–2Urawa Red Diamonds
JLeague.co (EN)
JLeague.jp (JA)		 Esaka 7', 81'
Attendance: 18,558
Referee: Hiroki Kasahara
Kawasaki Frontale
Urawa Red Diamonds
GK 1 South Korea Jung Sung-ryong
RB 13 Japan Miki Yamane
CB 5 Japan Shogo Taniguchi (c)
CB 7 Japan Shintaro Kurumaya
LB 2 Japan Kyohei Noborizato
DM 6 Brazil João Schmidt downward-facing red arrow 46'
CM 14 Japan Yasuto Wakizaka downward-facing red arrow 71'
CM 10 Japan Ryota Oshima downward-facing red arrow 82'
RW 41 Japan Akihiro Ienaga
LW 18 Thailand Chanathip Songkrasin downward-facing red arrow 77'
CF 9 Brazil Leandro Damião downward-facing red arrow 71'
Substitutes:
GK 27 Japan Kenta Tanno
MF 3 Japan Koki Tsukagawa upward-facing green arrow 82'
MF 16 Japan Tatsuki Seko upward-facing green arrow 71'
MF 31 Japan Kazuya Yamamura
FW 11 Japan Yu Kobayashi upward-facing green arrow 77'
FW 20 Japan Kei Chinen upward-facing green arrow 71'
FW 23 Brazil Marcinho upward-facing green arrow 46'
Manager:
Japan Toru Oniki
GK 1 Japan Shusaku Nishikawa (c)
RB 2 Japan Hiroki Sakai
CB 4 Japan Takuya Iwanami
CB 28 Denmark Alexander Scholz
LB 6 Japan Kazuaki Mawatari
DM 19 Japan Ken Iwao
RM 14 Japan Takahiro Sekine downward-facing red arrow 86'
CM 22 Japan Kai Shibato
CM 3 Japan Atsuki Ito downward-facing red arrow 82'
LM 15 Japan Takahiro Akimoto downward-facing red arrow 82'
CF 33 Japan Ataru Esaka downward-facing red arrow 86'
Substitutes:
GK 12 Japan Zion Suzuki
DF 13 Japan Tomoya Inukai upward-facing green arrow 86'
DF 20 Japan Tetsuya Chinen
DF 24 Japan Yuta Miyamoto upward-facing green arrow 86'
MF 25 Japan Kaito Yasui
MF 40 Japan Yuichi Hirano upward-facing green arrow 82'
FW 27 Japan Kai Matsuzaki upward-facing green arrow 82'
Manager:
Spain Ricardo Rodríguez

Assistant referees:
Isao Nishihashi
Kentaro Matsui
Fourth official:
Masuya Ueda
Video assistant referee:
Yudai Yamamoto
Assistant video assistant referee:
Haruhiro Otsuka

Match rules[2]

  • 90 minutes.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions, and a maximum of two additional concussion substitutions.

References

  1. ^ "Japan Professional Football League 24 December 2021". jleague.co. Japan Professional Football League. 24 December 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  2. ^ "[公式] FUJI FILM SUPER CUP 2022：Jリーグ.jp". jleague.jp (in Japanese). Japan Professional Football League. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
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