# 2022 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament

The 2022 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (第101回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会; All Japan JFA 101st High School Soccer Tournament) marked the 101st edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan, won by Okayama Gakugeikan after a 3–1 win over Higashiyama on the Final, which was the first high school from Okayama to ever win the competition.
As usual, the tournament was contested by all 48 winning schools of their respective prefectural qualifications. Tokyo's qualification tournament was the only one out of the 47 to qualify two high school teams for the tournament. The metropolitan area was also given the rights to host the final, scheduled to be played at the Japan National Stadium, in Shinjuku. Aomori Yamada were the defending champions, winning the previous championship by 4–0 against Ohzu, which rewarded a scoreful and eventful campaign throughout the 2021 tournament.
As usual, from the first round to the quarterfinals, the matches had a duration of 80 minutes, split into two halves of 40 minutes each. The semi-finals and the final had matches lasting 90 minutes, the standard match length on professional football. During the tournament, if a match should be tied, it would directly require penalty shoot-outs, except for the final, where overtime would be played if the match were tied for 90 minutes. All the matches were digitally broadcast on TVer and SPORTS BULL. In Japan, the competition has this year, in total, 43 official broadcasters. The semi-finals and the final were broadcast on NTV.

## Calendar

The tournament took place in a 13-day span, with the tournament split into a total of 6 stages. The draw was conducted on 21 November 2022 by the JFA, deciding the tournament schedule and the match pairings.
| Round | Date | Matches | Clubs |
| First round | 28 and 29 December 2022 | 16 | 32 (32) → 16 |
| Second round | 31 December 2022 | 16 | 32 (16+16) → 16 |
| Third round | 2 January 2023 | 8 | 16 → 8 |
| Quarter-finals | 4 January 2023 | 4 | 8 → 4 |
| Semi-finals | 7 January 2023 | 2 | 4 → 2 |
| Final | 9 January 2023 | 1 | 2 → 1 |

## Venues

The tournament was held in 4 prefectures and 9 stadiums. In Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures, two venues are located in each, while three are located in Tokyo. The venues are:
* Tokyo – Japan National Stadium, Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium and Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka
* Kanagawa – Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium and NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium
* Saitama – Urawa Komaba Stadium and NACK5 Stadium Omiya
* Chiba – Kashiwanoha Stadium and ZA Oripri Stadium

## Participating clubs

| Prefecture | High School | Apps. | Kit manufacturer |
| Hokkaido | Hokkai High School | 12th | Puma |
| Aomori | Aomori Yamada High School | 28th | Under Armour |
| Iwate | Morioka Shogyo High School | 17th | Asics |
| Miyagi | Seiwa Gakuen High School | 5th | Athleta |
| Akita | North Asia Univ. Meioh High School | 5th | Athleta |
| Yamagata | Haguro High School | 9th | Adidas |
| Fukushima | Shoshi High School | 13th | Puma |
| Ibaraki | Kashima Gakuen High School | 11th | Adidas |
| Tochigi | Sano Nihon Univ. High School | 9th | Adidas |
| Yamanashi | Yamanashi Gakuin High School | 9th | Asics |
| Gunma | Maebashi Ikuei High School | 25th | Puma |
| Saitama | Shohei High School | 5th | New Balance |
| Chiba | NSSU Kashiwa High School | 1st | Mizuno |
| Tokyo A | Kokugakuin Univ. Kugayama High School | 9th | SVOLME |
| Tokyo B | Seiritsu Gakuen High School | 17th | Adidas |
| Kanagawa | Nihon Univ. Fujisawa High School | 6th | Mizuno |
| Nagano | Matsumoto Kokusai High School | 5th | Under Armour |
| Niigata | Nihon Bunri High School | 5th | Umbro |
| Toyama | Toyama Daiichi High School | 33rd | Puma |
| Ishikawa | Seiryo High School | 31st | Puma |
| Fukui | Maruoka High School | 33rd | Puma |
| Shizuoka | Hamamatsu Kaiseikan High School | 4th | Puma |
| Aichi | Toho High School | 7th | Nike |
| Mie | Tsu Kogyo High School | 3rd | Mizuno |
| Prefecture | High School | Apps. | Kit manufacturer |
| Gifu | Teikyo Univ. Kani High School | 9th | SVOLME |
| Shiga | Ohmi High School | 2nd | Athleta |
| Kyoto | Higashiyama High School | 5th | Asics |
| Osaka | Riseisha High School | 4th | Puma |
| Hyōgo | Ashiya Gakuen High School | 1st | Athleta |
| Nara | Nara Ikuei High School | 15th | Puma |
| Wakayama | Kindai Univ. Wakayama High School | 9th | New Balance |
| Tottori | Yonago Kita High School | 18th | Puma |
| Shimane | Rissho Univ. Shonan High School | 19th | Puma |
| Okayama | Okayama Gakugeikan High School | 5th | Puma |
| Hiroshima | Hiroshima Minami High School | 17th | Asics |
| Yamaguchi | Takagawa Gakuen High School | 28th | Puma |
| Kagawa | Kagawa Nishi High School | 12th | Mizuno |
| Tokushima | Tokushima Ichiritsu High School | 19th | Puma |
| Ehime | Teikyo Daigo High School | 1st | Acuore |
| Kōchi | Kochi High School | 18th | Desporte |
| Fukuoka | Iizuka High School | 1st | Puma |
| Saga | Ryukoku High School | 3rd | Mizuno |
| Nagasaki | Kunimi High School | 24th | Nike |
| Kumamoto | Ohzu High School | 19th | Puma |
| Ōita | Oita High School | 12th | SVOLME |
| Miyazaki | Nissho Gakuen High School | 16th | Mizuno |
| Kagoshima | Kamimura Gakuen High School | 10th | Puma |
| Okinawa | Nishihara High School | 5th | Mizuno |

## Schedule

The schedule was announced on 21 November 2022, after the draw was conducted by the JFA, following the completion of the competition's prefectural qualifications.

### Final

| Okayama Gakugeikan | Higashiyama |
| GK | 12 | Jin Hiratsuka |
| DF | 2 | Shin Fukui |
| DF | 3 | Daishin Taguchi |
| DF | 4 | Tsukasa Inoue (c) |
| DF | 5 | Takashi Nakao |
| MF | 6 | Yuma Taguchi | 61' |
| MF | 7 | Kyogo Kimura |
| MF | 8 | Haruto Okamoto |
| MF | 10 | Aoi Yamada |
| FW | 9 | Takuto Imai |
| FW | 11 | Nozomi Tanabe | 88' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Akira Yano |
| DF | 13 | Daiki Hirano |
| DF | 16 | Tsuyoshi Fujita |
| MF | 14 | Hinata Tamura | 88' |
| MF | 15 | Hayuma Takayama |
| MF | 17 | Kosei Nishikawa |
| MF | 19 | Ruki Kinoshita | 61' |
| FW | 18 | Kanato Kimura |
| FW | 20 | Sora Sakaguchi |
| Manager: ||
| Yoshiaki Takahara ||
| GK | 1 | Mizuki Sato |
| DF | 2 | Aren Ishii | 85' |
| DF | 3 | Seigo Shizu |
| DF | 4 | Rikuto Shintani (c) |
| DF | 6 | Yuma Nakazato |
| MF | 7 | Renji Sanada |
| MF | 8 | Keita Matsuhashi |
| MF | 10 | Reiya Sakata | 82' |
| MF | 13 | Funosuke Shimizu | 71' |
| FW | 14 | Keijiro Kitamura |
| FW | 15 | Reo Toyoshima | 82' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 17 | Shunya Maki |
| DF | 19 | Takuto Hosaka | 85' |
| DF | 20 | Kohei Suzuki |
| MF | 9 | Ayato Otani | 71' |
| MF | 11 | Koki Ueda |
| MF | 12 | Kazuya Kikuyama |
| MF | 18 | Rai Hamase |
| FW | 16 | Shoma Nakano | 82' |
| FW | 30 | Kazuma Hirao | 82' |
| Manager: ||
| Ryoichi Fukushige ||
| Assistant referees: Hiroshi Morikawa Tomoyuki Umeda Fourth official: Yuki Tanabe | Match rules 90 minutes. Extra-time if scores still level at the end of regulation time. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level at the end of extra time. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions during regulation time, with one more substition allowed if the match needs to go into extra-time. |

## Top scorers

| Rank | Player | High School | Goals |
| 1 | Shio Fukuda | Kamimura Gakuen | 3 |
| 1 | Takuto Imai | Okayama Gakugeikan | 3 |
| 1 | Yosuke Morishige | Nihon Fujisawa | 3 |
| 1 | Renji Sanada | Higashiyama | 3 |
| 1 | Sota Yamamoto | Maebashi Ikuei | 3 |

## Selected best players

The following 36 players featured in the Tournament's Best Players Squad:
| Pos. | Player | High School | Grade | Moved to |
| GK | Soma Amano | Maebashi Ikuei | 2nd | Maebashi Ikuei |
| GK | Jin Hiratsuka | Okayama Gakugeikan | 2nd | Okayama Gakugeikan |
| GK | Mizuki Sato | Higashiyama | 3rd | Doshisha University |
| DF | Asuma Ikari | Ohzu | 2nd | Ohzu |
| DF | Tsukasa Inoue | Okayama Gakugeikan | 3rd | Nippon Sport Science University |
| DF | Shun Saito | Maebashi Ikuei | 3rd | Momoyama Gakuin University |
| DF | Rikuto Shintani | Higashiyama | 3rd | Meiji University |
| DF | Seigo Shizu | Higashiyama | 2nd | Higashiyama |
| DF | Hiroto Suzuki | Shoshi | 3rd | Sendai University |
| DF | Yoshiki Takushima | Aomori Yamada | 3rd | Meiji University |
| DF | Yoshihisa Tanabe | Ohzu | 2nd | Ohzu |
| DF | Keisuke Tsukui | Shohei | 3rd | Kashima Antlers |
| DF | Yumeki Yoshinaga | Kamimura Gakuen | 2nd | Kamimura Gakuen |
| MF | Hiroto Aihara | NSSU Kashiwa | 3rd | Niigata University HW |
| MF | Jun Kasagi | Kamimura Gakuen | 3rd | NIFS Kanoya |
| MF | Kyogo Kimura | Okayama Gakugeikan | 3rd | Komazawa University |
| MF | Keita Matsuhashi | Higashiyama | 3rd | Tokai University |
| MF | Toya Myogan | Riseisha | 3rd | Kawasaki Frontale |
| Pos. | Player | High School | Grade | Moved to |
| MF | Haruto Okamoto | Okayama Gakugeikan | 3rd | Chuo University |
| MF | Rui Osako | Kamimura Gakuen | 3rd | Cerezo Osaka |
| MF | Reiya Sakata | Higashiyama | 3rd | Cerezo Osaka |
| MF | Renji Sanada | Higashiyama | 3rd | Kansai University |
| MF | Tsubasa Shinoda | Shohei | 3rd | University of Tsukuba |
| MF | Rui Tabaru | Ohzu | 3rd | Rissho University |
| MF | Ryo Tokunaga | Maebashi Ikuei | 3rd | University of Tsukuba |
| MF | Aoi Yamada | Okayama Gakugeikan | 3rd | Fukuoka University |
| FW | Shio Fukuda | Kamimura Gakuen | 3rd | Borussia Mönchengladbach II |
| FW | Kazunosuke Furuta | Riseisha | 3rd | Kwansei Gakuin University |
| FW | Takuto Imai | Okayama Gakugeikan | 3rd | Komazawa University |
| FW | Shunei Kobayashi | Ohzu | 3rd | University of Tsukuba |
| FW | Tsuna Kominato | Aomori Yamada | 3rd | Hosei University |
| FW | Yosuke Morishige | Nihon Fujisawa | 3rd | Shimizu S-Pulse |
| FW | Oto Nakayama | Kokugakuin Kugayama | 3rd | Doshisha University |
| FW | Minto Nishimaru | Kamimura Gakuen | 2nd | Kamimura Gakuen |
| FW | Kento Shiogai | Kokugakuin Kugayama | 3rd | Keio University |
| FW | Manato Yoshida | NSSU Kashiwa | 3rd | Tokyo International University |

## Joining J.League clubs on 2023

| Pos. | Player | Moving from | Moving to | League |
| DF | Towa Nishisaka | Riseisha | Tokushima Vortis | J2 |
| DF | Keisuke Tsukui | Shohei | Kashima Antlers | J1 |
| MF | Yuta Arai | Shohei | FC Tokyo | J1 |
| MF | Raiya Kinkawa | Nissho Gakuen | Tegevajaro Miyazaki | J3 |
| MF | Toya Myogan | Riseisha | Kawasaki Frontale | J1 |
| MF | Rui Osako | Kamimura Gakuen | Cerezo Osaka | J1 |
| MF | Reiya Sakata | Higashiyama | Cerezo Osaka | J1 |
| FW | Yosuke Morishige | Nihon Fujisawa | Shimizu S-Pulse | J2 |
| FW | William Owie | NSSU Kashiwa | Kashiwa Reysol | J1 |