# 2024 Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League

The 2024 Prince Takamado JFA U-18 Football Premier League (Japanese: 高円宮杯 JFA U-18サッカープレミアリーグ 2024, Hepburn: Takamado no Miya-hai JFA U-18 Sakkā Puremia Rīgu 2024) was the 35th season of the main competition for under-18 teams in Japan, the 14th after rebranding the competition to the current "Premier League" format, and the 3rd season with 24 clubs participating in the league.
West champions Ohzu High School and East champions Yokohama FC were the zonal winners, playing each other in the final. Ohzu eventually won it by 3–0. They became the first side from Kumamoto, the second side from Kyushu, the first high school overall and the first public high school to ever reach the final and/or win the tournament since the establishment of the Premier League.

## Changes from the previous season

| Promoted from the Prince Leagues | Relegated by bottom-league finish (East) | Relegated by bottom-league finish (West) |
| Kashima Antlers Teikyo Nagaoka HS Fagiano Okayama Kagoshima Josei HS | Asahikawa Jitsugyo HS Yokohama F. Marinos | Júbilo Iwata Riseisha HS |

## Participating clubs

As usual, the teams were allocated to each division by the JFA based on geographical positions. Yokohama FC U-18s was the only team to be relocated, switching from the West to the East on 2024, a year after relocating to the West.

### Premier League East

| Team | Prefecture | 2023 record |
| Aomori Yamada High School | Aomori | 1st |
| Shoshi High School | Fukushima | 2nd |
| Kashima Antlers | Ibaraki | Play-offs win |
| Maebashi Ikuei High School | Gunma | 8th |
| Shohei High School | Saitama | 7th |
| Omiya Ardija | Saitama | 9th |
| RKU Kashiwa High School | Chiba | 6th |
| Kashiwa Reysol | Chiba | 4th |
| Ichiritsu Funabashi High School | Chiba | 5th |
| FC Tokyo | Tokyo | 10th |
| Kawasaki Frontale | Kanagawa | 3rd |
| Yokohama FC | Kanagawa | 5th (WEST) |

### Premier League West

| Team | Prefecture | 2023 record |
| Teikyo Nagaoka High School | Niigata | Play-offs win |
| Shizuoka Gakuen High School | Shizuoka | 3rd |
| Nagoya Grampus | Aichi | 8th |
| Vissel Kobe | Hyogo | 2nd |
| Yonago Kita High School | Tottori | 7th |
| Fagiano Okayama | Okayama | Play-offs win |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | Hiroshima | 1st |
| Higashi Fukuoka High School | Fukuoka | 6th |
| Sagan Tosu | Saga | 9th |
| Ohzu High School | Kumamoto | 4th |
| Kagoshima Josei High School | Kagoshima | Play-offs win |
| Kamimura Gakuen High School | Kagoshima | 10th |

## League table
### Premier League East

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Yokohama FC | 22 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 32 | 23 | +9 | 41 | Qualification for Premier League final |
| 2 | Kashima Antlers | 22 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 39 | 32 | +7 | 41 | |
| 3 | Kashiwa Reysol | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 43 | 31 | +12 | 38 | |
| 4 | RKU Kashiwa | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 41 | 33 | +8 | 35 | |
| 5 | Kawasaki Frontale | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 35 | 27 | +8 | 35 | |
| 6 | Maebashi Ikuei | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 37 | 33 | +4 | 33 | |
| 7 | Shohei | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 32 | |
| 8 | Aomori Yamada | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 32 | |
| 9 | Ichiritsu Funabashi | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 35 | −12 | 27 | |
| 10 | FC Tokyo | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 31 | 35 | −4 | 26 | |
| 11 | Shoshi | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 21 | 28 | −7 | 21 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |
| 12 | Omiya Ardija | 22 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 44 | −27 | 11 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |

### Premier League West

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Ohzu | 22 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 66 | 21 | +45 | 55 | Qualification for Premier League final |
| 2 | Vissel Kobe | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 47 | 27 | +20 | 48 | |
| 3 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 52 | 21 | +31 | 40 | |
| 4 | Nagoya Grampus | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 52 | 33 | +19 | 40 | |
| 5 | Kamimura Gakuen | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 52 | 45 | +7 | 37 | |
| 6 | Sagan Tosu | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 42 | 37 | +5 | 35 | |
| 7 | Teikyo Nagaoka | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 44 | 55 | −11 | 30 | |
| 8 | Higashi Fukuoka | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 28 | −3 | 26 | |
| 9 | Shizuoka Gakuen | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 32 | 43 | −11 | 24 | |
| 10 | Fagiano Okayama | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 27 | 44 | −17 | 22 | |
| 11 | Yonago Kita | 22 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 20 | 60 | −40 | 10 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |
| 12 | Kagoshima Josei | 22 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 60 | −45 | 7 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |

## Premier League Play-offs

Qualified for the stage the 16 top-ranked teams of the nine Prince League divisions, with each region having its amount of qualifying slots predetermined by the JFA.
Kanto's Prince League was the only one to qualify three teams from, whereas Tohoku, Tokai, Kansai, Chugoku and Kyushu qualified two teams each, and just one each qualified from Hokkaido and Shikoku. They were divided into four blocks, with their respective block winners (or 2nd round winners; highlighted in bold) qualifying for the next season's Premier League.
The match pairings were determined by a draw, conducted on 2 December 2024.
The play-offs slots were determined and announced on 28 February. Three teams qualified from Kanto, two from Tohoku, Tokai, Kansai, Chugoku and Kyushu, alongside one from Hokkaido, Hokushin'etsu and Shikoku Prince Leagues. The final team to qualify for the play-offs was decided on 1 December 2024, as Urawa clinched their spot on Kanto's last round.
* ↑ Reserve teams, however, can not participate in the play-offs. If their final league placement sat in the qualifying zone for the play-offs, their slot would be allocated to the next best-ranked team.

### Block D
## Final

| GK | 21 | Tsukasa Ogame |
| DF | 3 | Kota Kosuki (c) | 78' |
| DF | 13 | Rai Okawa |
| DF | 22 | Sota Tsukuda |
| DF | 28 | Ihaku Ieda |
| MF | 10 | Tomoki Asami | 78' |
| MF | 11 | Shota Nakadai |
| MF | 18 | Tessei Shibakusa | 45' |
| MF | 20 | Ryosuke Iwasaki | 88' |
| MF | 27 | Manato Kanno |
| FW | 9 | Keitaro Shoji |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Toma Sakurai |
| DF | 5 | Riku Fukazawa |
| DF | 24 | Yu Serizawa | 78' |
| MF | 7 | Ayumu Sasa |
| MF | 25 | Sota Akimoto | 78' |
| MF | 37 | Haruya Suzuki | 88' |
| MF | 39 | Hiromu Yokka | 45' |
| Manager: ||
| Takumi Wada ||
| GK | 1 | Yuta Bono |
| RB | 3 | Yuma Noguchi | 90+1' |
| CB | 5 | Natsuki Goto (c) |
| CB | 4 | Kai Murakami |
| LB | 2 | Yuto Ogami |
| RM | 11 | Yugo Masui | 90+1' |
| CM | 8 | Takumi Hata |
| CM | 10 | Yudai Shimamoto |
| LM | 7 | Kennosuke Nakamura | 60' |
| CF | 6 | Tasuku Kanematsu | 75' |
| ST | 9 | Keiji Yamashita |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 16 | Aoi Murakami |
| DF | 22 | Hideaki Matsuno | 90+1' |
| DF | 24 | Yumu Nonaka |
| MF | 15 | Kyoji Fukushima |
| MF | 17 | Kohaku Soyama | 90+1' |
| MF | 20 | Akifumi Mizoguchi | 60' |
| FW | 19 | Shodai Iwanaka | 75' |
| Manager: ||
| Tomohiro Yamashiro ||
| Assistant referees: Tomohiro Ota Yusuke Ise Fourth official: Ryu Mashio | 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. Seven 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
### East

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Kelly Ononoju | Maebashi Ikuei | 10 |
| 1 | Mohamad Sadiki Wade | Kashiwa Reysol | 10 |
| 1 | Minato Yoshida | Kashima Antlers | 10 |
| 4 | Kota Sato | Maebashi Ikuei | 9 |
| 4 | Futo Yoshihara | Kashiwa Reysol | 9 |
| 6 | Yutaro Onda | Kawasaki Frontale | 8 |
| 6 | Kansuke Ouchi | Shoshi | 8 |
| 8 | Hayate Cho | Kashima Antlers | 7 |
| 8 | Yu Kasuya | RKU Kashiwa | 7 |
| 8 | Kantaro Maeda | Yokohama FC | 7 |
| 8 | Keitaro Shoji | Yokohama FC | 7 |

### West

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Keiji Yamashita | Ohzu | 20 |
| 2 | Aren Inoue | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 17 |
| 3 | Gaku Nawata | Kamimura Gakuen | 14 |
| 3 | Ritsu Onishi | Nagoya Grampus | 14 |
| 3 | Shungo Sugiura | Nagoya Grampus | 14 |
| 6 | Daichi Suzuki | Sagan Tosu | 12 |
| 6 | Yudai Shimamoto | Ohzu | 12 |
| 8 | Tasuku Kanematsu | Ohzu | 11 |
| 8 | Takumi Yasuno | Teikyo Nagaoka | 11 |
| 8 | Ran Yoshioka | Vissel Kobe | 11 |