# 2018 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament

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. Aomori Yamada became the champions after winning past Ryutsu Keizai Kashiwa by 3–1.

## Calendar

The schedule, kick-offs and match pairings were confirmed on 19 November 2018.
| 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. 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.

### Final

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