All Japan High School Soccer Tournament

All Japan High School Soccer Tournament
Founded	1917
Region	Japan
Number of teams	48
Current champions	Aomori Yamada (2023); (4th title)
Most successful club(s)	Mikage Shihan (11 titles)
Television broadcasters	NTV and affiliates
Website	JFA
	2024 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament

The All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会, Zenkoku kōtō gakkō sakkā senshuken taikai, 全国高校サッカー選手権大会, Zenkoku kō kō sakkā senshuken taikai) of Japan, commonly known as "Winter Kokuritsu" (冬の国立 Fuyu no Kokuritsu), is an annual nationwide high school association football tournament. It is the oldest and largest scale amateur sporting event in Japan, widely popular throughout the nation. For third graders of the participating teams, the tournament is the last time the students can play in an official competition with their school peers, as they graduate from High School. It ends up enhancing the motivation of the players in each match of the tournament, as it can be their last wearing his High School team shirt in the competition.

Henceforth, the tournament, organized by the Japan Football Association, All Japan High School Athletic Federation and the Nippon Television, as a highly competitive tournament, it's organized in an all-knockout stage format. The prefectural preliminary rounds uses the same method, with the best-ranked teams according to the U-18 league division it plays earning byes from the early stages. The main tournament is held during the winter school vacation period, culminating in a two-week final tournament stage with 48 teams from late December to early January at the National Capital Region side.^[1]

Venues

Current venues

Previous venues (since tournament moved to Kanto)

Finals

Results

Season	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Participating famous players	Ambassador
1917	Mikage Shihan	1–0	Myojo
1918	Mikage Shihan	5–1	Myojo
1919	Mikage Shihan	4–1	Himeji Shihan
1920	Mikage Shihan	3–0	Himeji Shihan
1921	Mikage Shihan	0–0 3–0 R	Kobe Itchu
1922	Mikage Shihan	4–0	Himeji Shihan
1923	Mikage Shihan	5–1	Kyoto Shihan
1924	Kobe Itchu	3–0	Mikage Shihan
1925	Mikage Shihan	1–0	Hiroshima Itchu
1927	Soongsil (Korea)	6–1	Hiroshima Itchu
1928	Mikage Shihan	6–5 aet	Pyongyang Koshin (Korea)
1929	Kobe Itchu	3–0	Hiroshima Shihan
1930	Mikage Shihan	3–2	Hiroshima Itchu
1931	Mikage Shihan	6–1	Aichi Daiichi Shihan
1932	Kobe Itchu	2–1	Aoyama Shihan
1933	Gifu Shihan	8–4 aet	Myojo Shogyo
1934	Kobe Itchu	5–3	Myojo Shogyo
1935	Kobe Itchu	2–1	Tennoji Shihan
1936	Hiroshima Itchu	5–3	Nirasaki
1937	Saitama Shihan	6–2	Kobe Itchu
1938	Kobe Itchu	5–0	Shiga Shihan
1939	Hiroshima Itchu	3–0	Seihochu
1940	Posung (Korea)	4–0	Kobe Daisan
1946	Kobe Itchu	2–1	Kobe Daisan
1947	Hiroshima	7–1	Amagasaki
1948	Rijo	2–0	Ueno Kita
1949	Ikeda	2–0	Utsunomiya
1950	Utsunomiya	4–0	Odawara
1951	Urawa	1–0	Mikunigaoka
1952	Shudo	2–1 aet	Nirasaki
1953	Higashi Senda Kishiwada	1–1 aet
1954	Urawa	5–2	Kariya
1955	Urawa	4–1	Akita Shogyo
1956	Urawa Nishi	3–2	Hitachi Daiichi
1957	Akita Shogyo	4–2 aet	Kariya
1958	Yamashiro	2–1	Hiroshima Univ. Higashisenda
1959	Ichiritsu Urawa	1–0	Myojo
1960	Ichiritsu Urawa	4–0	Tono
1961	Shudo	2–0	Yamashiro
1962	Fujieda Higashi	1–0	Ichiritsu Urawa
1963	Fujieda Higashi	2–0 aet	Myojo
1964	Ichiritsu Urawa	3–1	Utsunomiya Gakuen
1965	Ichiritsu Narashino Myojo	0–0 aet
1966	Fujieda Higashi Akita Shogyo	0–0 aet
1967	Rakuhoku Sanyo	0–0 aet
1968	Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan	1–0	Sanyo
1969	Urawa Minami	1–0	Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan
1970	Fujieda Higashi	3–1	Hamana
1971	Ichiritsu Narashino	2–0	Toyo
1972	Ichiritsu Urawa	2–1 aet	Fujieda Higashi
1973	Kansai Univ. Hokuyo	2–1	Fujieda Higashi
1974	Teikyo	3–1	Shimizu Higashi
1975	Urawa Minami	2–1	Shizuoka Kogyo
1976	Urawa Minami	5–4	Shizuoka Gakuen
1977	Teikyo	5–0	Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo	Naoji Ito
1978	Koga Daiichi	2–1	Muroran Otani
1979	Teikyo	4–0	Nirasaki
1980	Koga Daiichi	2–1	Shimizu Higashi	Akira Komatsu
1981	Bunan	2–0	Nirasaki	Osamu Taninaka
1982	Shimizu Higashi	4–1	Nirasaki
1983	Teikyo	1–0	Shimizu Higashi
1984	Teikyo Shimabara Shogyo	1–1 aet		Hiroaki Matsuyama
1985	Shimizu Shogyo	2–0	Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo	Hisashi Kurosaki
1986	Tokai Univ. Shizuoka	2–0	Kunimi	Ademir Santos
1987	Kunimi	1–0	Tokai Univ. Shizuoka
1988	Shimizu Shogyo	1–0	Ichiritsu Funabashi
1989	Minamiuwa	2–1	Bunan	Yoshihiro Nishida
1990	Kunimi	1–0 aet	Kagoshima Jitsugyo
1991	Teikyo Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo	2–2 aet		Masanobu Matsunami
1992	Kunimi	2–0	Yamashiro
1993	Shimizu Shogyo	2–1	Kunimi	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Nakata
1994	Ichiritsu Funabashi	5–0	Teikyo	Seigo Narazaki
1995	Kagoshima Jitsugyo Shizuoka Gakuen	2–2 aet
1996	Ichiritsu Funabashi	2–1	Toko Gakuen	Shunsuke Nakamura
1997	Higashi Fukuoka	2–1	Teikyo	Yasuhito Endō, Koji Nakata
1998	Higashi Fukuoka	4–2	Teikyo	Keiji Tamada
1999	Ichiritsu Funabashi	2–0	Kagoshima Jitsugyo	Daisuke Matsui
2000	Kunimi	3–0	Kusatsu Higashi	Marcus Tulio Tanaka, Yoshito Ōkubo
2001	Kunimi	3–1	Gifu Kogyo
2002	Ichiritsu Funabashi	1–0	Nagasaki Kunimi
2003	Kunimi	6–0	Chikuyo Gakuen	Sōta Hirayama
2004	Kagoshima Jitsugyo	0–0 aet (4-2p)	Ichiritsu Funabashi	Keisuke Honda, Shinji Okazaki
2005	Yasu	2–1 aet	Kagoshima Jitsugyo	Takashi Inui	Maki Horikita
2006	Morioka Shogyo	2–1	Sakuyo	Ryohei Yamazaki	Yui Aragaki
2007	RKU Kashiwa	4–0	Fujieda Higashi	Genki Omae, Nobuhisa Urata	Kie Kitano
2008	Hiroshima Minami	3–2	Kagoshima Josei	Yuya Osako	Alice Hirose
2009	Yamanashi Gakuin	1–0	Aomori Yamada	Koki Arita	Rina Aizawa
2010	Takigawa Daini	5–3	Kumiyama	Ryo Miyaichi, Gaku Shibasaki, Shintaro Kurumaya	Umika Kawashima
2011	Ichiritsu Funabashi	2–1 aet	Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo	Ryohei Shirasaki, Musashi Suzuki	Haruna Kawaguchi
2012	Hosho	2–2 aet (5–3p)	Kyoto Tachibana	Naomichi Ueda, Reo Mochizuki	Ito Ohno
2013	Toyama Daiichi	3–2 aet	Seiryo	Tomoya Koyamatsu, Tsukasa Morishima	Airi Matsui
2014	Seiryo	4–2 aet	Maebashi Ikuei	Ryuho Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Reo Hatate Ryoma Watanabe, Yuto Iwasaki	Suzu Hirose
2015	Higashi Fukuoka	5–0	Kokugakuin Univ. Kugayama	Daiki Sugioka, Jefferson Tabinas Takuro Kaneko, Koki Ogawa	Mei Nagano
2016	Aomori Yamada	5–0	Maebashi Ikuei	Itsuki Oda	Karen Otomo
2017	Maebashi Ikuei	1–0	RKU Kashiwa	Ryotaro Tsunoda, Kaishu Sano, Riku Matsuda	Hikaru Takahashi
2018	Aomori Yamada	3–1	RKU Kashiwa	Riku Danzaki, Ikuma Sekigawa, Toichi Suzuki	Kaya Kiyohara
2019	Shizuoka Gakuen	3–2	Aomori Yamada	Taiga Hata, Yota Komi	Nana Mori
2020	Yamanashi Gakuin	2–2 aet (4–2 p)	Aomori Yamada	Paul Tabinas	Miyu Honda
2021	Aomori Yamada	4–0	Ohzu	Kuryu Matsuki, Anrie Chase	Mizuki Kayashima
2022	Okayama Gakugeikan	3–1	Higashiyama	Shio Fukuda	Rimi
2023	Aomori Yamada	3–1	Ohmi	Gaku Nawata, Rento Takaoka	Yumia Fujisaki
2024					Rui Tsukishima

Records and statistics

Most successful prefectures

Excluding the special tournament on 1934 and the Korean schools.

Pos.	Prefectures	Titles	Winning Schools
1	Hyōgo	18	Mikage Shihan (11); Kobe Itchu (6); Takigawa Daini (1)
2	Saitama	13	Urawa Ichiritsu (4); Urawa (3); Urawa Higashi (3); Saitama NS (1); Urawa Nishi (1); Bunan (1)
3	Shizuoka	10	Fujieda Higashi (4); Shimizu Shogyo (3); Shizuoka Gakuen (2); Shimizu Higashi (1); Tokai Univ. Shizuoka (1)
4	Hiroshima	9	Hiroshima Kokutaiji (3)^[a]; Hiroshima UHS ^[b]; Shudo (2); Sanyo (1); Hiroshima Minami (1)
5	Chiba	8	Ichiritsu Funabashi (5); Narashino (3); RKU Kashiwa (1)
6	Nagasaki	7	Kunimi (6); Shimabara Shogyo (1)
7	Tokyo	6	Teikyo (6)
8	Osaka	5	Ikeda (1); Kishiwada (1); Myojo (1); Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan (1); Kansai Univ. Hokuyo (1)
9	Aomori	4	Aomori Yamada (4)
10	Fukuoka	3	Higashi Fukuoka (3)
11	Kyoto	2	Yamashiro (1); Rakuhoku (1)
	Kagoshima	2	Kagoshima Jitsugyo (2)
	Akita	2	Akita Shogyo (2)
	Ibaraki	2	Koga Daiichi (2)

^ Includes titles as Hiroshima Itchu and Rijo.
^ Includes titles as Hiroshima (2)HNS and Higashi Senda

Overall top goalscorers

Goals	Player	School	Period
17	Sōta Hirayama^[2]	Kunimi	2001–2003

Single season top scorer

Goals	Player	School	Year
10	Yuya Osako^[3]	Kagoshima Josei	2008

References

^ "第102回全国高校サッカー選手権大会大会概要" [102nd National High School Soccer Championship Tournament Overview]. jfa.jp (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
^ "【The last drama of youth】"The experience of winning the All Japan High School Soccer Tournament twice is my lifelong treasure" - The 101st All Japan High School Soccer Tournament / Interview with HIRAYAMA Sota Vol.2". jfa.jp (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 27 December 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
^ "Hiroshima Minami top of the class". japantimes.co.jp. Japan Times. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2023.

External links

Official website – JFA (Japan Football Association)

[2] Includes titles as Hiroshima Itchu and Rijo.

[3] Includes titles as Hiroshima (2)HNS and Higashi Senda

[1] "第102回全国高校サッカー選手権大会大会概要" [102nd National High School Soccer Championship Tournament Overview]. jfa.jp (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.

[4] "【The last drama of youth】"The experience of winning the All Japan High School Soccer Tournament twice is my lifelong treasure" - The 101st All Japan High School Soccer Tournament / Interview with HIRAYAMA Sota Vol.2". jfa.jp (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 27 December 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2023.

[5] "Hiroshima Minami top of the class". japantimes.co.jp. Japan Times. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2023.

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