The 93rd Emperor's Cup (第93回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会) was the regular edition of the annual Japanese national cup tournament. It started on August 31, 2013 and ended on 1 January 2014 with the final at National Stadium in Tokyo.[1]
88 clubs competed in the tournament. The 18 J.League Division 1 clubs and 22 J.League Division 2 clubs receive a bye to the second round of the tournament. The other 47 teams earned berths by winning their respective prefectural cup tournaments, and entered from the first round along with the JFL seeded team, the team with the best record after the 17th matchday.
The 24 winners from the first round are joined by all 40 J.League teams. Ties that were played on September 11 had been moved from their originally-scheduled dates of September 7 and 8; the Kashiwa Reysol–University of Tsukuba match originally scheduled for the 7th was moved to the 10th, then the 4th due to a league scheduling conflict.