# 2019 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament

The 2019 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (All Japan JFA 98th High School Soccer Tournament (Japanese: 第98回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会)) marked the 98th edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan. As usual, the tournament was contested by 48 High Schools, with 1 High School per Prefecture being qualified for the tournament, with an exception made for the Tokyo, which had 2 High Schools representing their Prefecture. The final was played at the Saitama Stadium 2002.
The Shizuoka Gakuen won the tournament over Aomori Yamada by 3–2.

## Calendar

The tournament took place in a 15-day span, with the tournament split in a total of 6 stages.
| Round | Date | Matches | Clubs |
| First round | 30–31 December 2019 | 16 | 32 (32) → 16 |
| Second round | 2 January 2020 | 16 | 32 (16+16) → 16 |
| Third round | 3 January 2020 | 8 | 16 → 8 |
| Quarter-finals | 5 January 2020 | 4 | 8 → 4 |
| Semi-finals | 11 January 2020 | 2 | 4 → 2 |
| Final | 13 January 2020 | 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 ZA Oripri Stadium

## Participating clubs

In parentheses: the amount of times each team qualified for the All Japan High School Tournament (appearance in the 2020 edition included)
| Hokkaido: Hokkai High School (10) Aomori: Aomori Yamada High School (25) Iwate: Senshu Univ. Kitakami High School (1) Miyagi: Sendai Ikuei Gakuen High School (34) Akita: Akita Shogyo High School (45) Yamagata: Yamagata Chuo High School (12) Fukushima: Shoshi High School (11) Ibaraki: Meishu Gakuen Hitachi High School (4) Tochigi: Yaita Chuo High School (10) Gunma: Maebashi Ikuei High School (23) Saitama: Shohei High School (3) Chiba: Ichiritsu Funabashi High School (22) Tokyo A: Higashikurume Sogo High School (3) Tokyo B: Kokugakuin Univ. Kugayama High School (8) Kanagawa: Nihon Univ. Fujisawa High School (5) Yamanashi: Nihon Univ. Meisei High School (1) Nagano: Matsumoto Kokusai High School (3) Niigata: Teikyo Nagaoka High School (7) Toyama: Toyama Daiichi High School (30) Ishikawa: Otori Gakuin High School (2) Fukui: Maruoka High School (30) Shizuoka: Shizuoka Gakuen High School (12) Aichi: Aichi Inst. of Technology Meiden High School (1) Mie: Yokkaichi Chuo High School (34) | Gifu: Teikyo Univ. Kani High School (6) Shiga: Kusatsu Higashi High School (11) Kyoto: Kyoto Tachibana High School (8) Osaka: Kokoku High School (1) Hyōgo: Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School (10) Nara: Gojo High School (1) Wakayama: Wakayama Kogyo High School (4) Tottori: Yonago Kita High School (15) Shimane: Rissho Univ. Shonan High School (18) Okayama: Okayama Gakugeikan High School (3) Hiroshima: Hiroshima Minami High School (15) Yamaguchi: Takagawa Gakuen High School (25) Kagawa: Otemae Takamatsu High School (1) Tokushima: Tokushima Ichiritsu High School (17) Ehime: Imabari Higashi High School (1) Kōchi: Kochi High School (16) Fukuoka: Chikuyo Gakuen High School (3) Saga: Ryukoku High School (2) Nagasaki: Nagasaki IAS High School (1) Kumamoto: Kumamoto Kokufu High School (3) Ōita: Oita High School (11) Miyazaki: Nissho Gakuen High School (15) Kagoshima: Kamimura Gakuen High School (7) Okinawa: Maehara High School (3) |

## Schedule

The schedule and the match pairings were confirmed on 18 November 2019.

### Final

| GK | 1 | Shibuki Sato |
| DF | 2 | Yosuke Uchida | 87' |
| DF | 3 | Yusei Kanda |
| DF | 4 | Hiraku Hakozaki |
| DF | 5 | Yudai Fujiwara |
| MF | 6 | Riku Furuyado |
| MF | 7 | Kuryu Matsuki | 89' |
| MF | 8 | Rukia Urakawa | 71' |
| MF | 10 | Hidetoshi Takeda (c) |
| MF | 11 | Kenta Goto | 77' |
| FW | 9 | Shota Tanaka |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 12 | Ren Nirasawa |
| DF | 19 | Ryusei Suzuki | 87' |
| DF | 24 | Shogo Matsumoto |
| MF | 13 | Soki Tokuno | 71' |
| MF | 15 | Soma Anzai | 77' |
| MF | 16 | Kai Nagase |
| MF | 18 | Paul Tabinas |
| FW | 14 | Kim Hyeon-woo | 89' |
| FW | 17 | Nabel Yoshitaka Furusawa |
| Manager: ||
| Go Kuroda ||
| GK | 17 | Kohei Nochi |
| DF | 3 | Kento Abe (c) |
| DF | 4 | Shuto Tanabe |
| DF | 5 | Soshin Nakatani |
| DF | 15 | Taise Nishitani |
| MF | 8 | Ren Asakura |
| MF | 10 | Yuta Matsumura |
| MF | 14 | Naoki Koyama |
| MF | 16 | Kazuaki Ihori |
| MF | 18 | Yusuke Fujita | 46' |
| FW | 9 | Haru Kano |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Taiyo Kitaguchi |
| DF | 2 | Taisei Tanaka |
| DF | 22 | Kanta Iwano |
| DF | 28 | Hiroki Sekine |
| MF | 6 | Yoshiki Gondaira |
| MF | 7 | Koya Fujii |
| MF | 11 | Rearu Watanabe |
| MF | 19 | Yusuke Kusayanagi | 46' |
| FW | 12 | Yuki Iwamoto |
| Manager: ||
| Osamu Kawaguchi ||
| Assistant referees: Yosuke Takebe Kota Watanabe Fourth official: Taiki Tsuruoka | 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 | Yuki Iwamoto | Shizuoka Gakuen | 4 |
| 1 | Yuma Mori | Yokkaichi Chuo | 4 |
| 3 | Naoki Koyama | Shizuoka Gakuen | 3 |
| 3 | Kuryu Matsuki | Aomori Yamada | 3 |
| 3 | Hidetoshi Takeda | Aomori Yamada | 3 |