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.

All Japan High School Soccer Tournament
Final match venue
Founded1917
Region Japan
Number of teams48
Current championsOkayama Gakugeikan (2022)
(1st title)
Most successful club(s)Mikage Shihan (11 titles)
Television broadcastersNTV, and 43 commercial broadcasters
WebsiteJFA
2023 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament

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 earlu 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
1917Mikage Shihan1–0Meisei
1918Mikage Shihan5–1Meisei
1919Mikage Shihan4–1Himeji Shihan
1920Mikage Shihan3–0Himeji Shihan
1921Mikage Shihan0–0
3–0 R		Kobe Itchū
1922Mikage Shihan4–0Himeji Shihan
1923Mikage Shihan5–1Kyoto Shihan
1924Kobe Itchū3–0Mikage Shihan
1925Mikage Shihan1–0Hiroshima Itchū
1927Soongsil (Korea)6–1Hiroshima Itchū
1928Mikage Shihan6–5 aetPyongyang Kōshin (Korea)
1929Kobe Itchū3–0Hiroshima Shihan
1930Mikage Shihan3–2Hiroshima Itchū
1931Mikage Shihan6–1Aichi Daiichi Shihan
1932Kobe Itchū2–1Aoyama Shihan
1933Gifu Shihan8–4 aetMeisei
1934Kobe Itchū5–3Meisei
1935Kobe Itchū2–1Tennoji Shihan
1936Hiroshima Itchū5–3Nirasaki
1937Saitama Shihan6–2Kobe Itchū
1938Kobe Itchū5–0Shiga Shihan
1939Hiroshima Itchū3–0Seihōchū
1940Posung (Korea)4–0Kobe Daisan
1946Kobe Itchū2–1Kobe Daisan
1947Takashi Tsukichū7–1Amagasaki
1948Koijō2–0Ueno Kita
1949Ikeda2–0Utsunomiya
1950Utsunomiya4–0Odawara
1951Urawa1–0Osaka Mikunigaoka
1952Shūdō2–1 aetNirasaki
1953Higashi Senda
Kishiwada		1–1 aet
1954Urawa5–2Aichi Kariya
1955Urawa4–1Ichiritsu Shogyo Akita
1956Urawa Nishi3–2Hitachi Daiichi
1957Ichiritsu Shogyo Akita4–2 aetAichi Kariya
1958Kyoto Yamashiro2–1Hiroshima Tsuki
1959Ichiritsu Urawa1–0Myōjō
1960Ichiritsu Urawa4–0Tono
1961Shūdō2–0Yamashiro
1962Fujieda Higashi1–0Ichiritsu Urawa
1963Fujieda Higashi2–0 aetMyōjō
1964Ichiritsu Urawa3–1Utsunomiya Gakuen
1965Ichiritsu Narashino
Myōjō		0–0 aet
1966Fujieda Higashi
Ichiritsu Shogyo Akita		0–0 aet
1967Rakuhoku
Sanyo		0–0 aet
1968Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan1–0Sanyo
1969Urawa Minami1–0Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan
1970Fujieda Higashi3–1Hamana
1971Ichiritsu Narashino2–0Toyo
1972Ichiritsu Urawa2–1 aetFujieda Higashi Shizuoka
1973Kansai Hokuyo2–1Fujieda Higashi
1974Teikyo3–1Shimizu
1975Urawa Minami2–1Shizuoka Kogyo
1976Urawa Minami5–4Shizuoka Gakuen
1977Teikyo5–0Yokkaichi Chuo KogyoNaoji Ito
1978Furukawa Daiichi2–1Muroran Ohtani
1979Teikyo4–0Yamanashi Nirasaki
1980Furukawa Daiichi2–1Shimizu HigashiAkira Komatsu
1981Bunan2–0NirasakiOsamu Taninaka
1982Shimizu Higashi4–1Yamanashi Nirasaki
1983Teikyo1–0Shimizu Higashi
1984Teikyo
Shimabara Shogyo		1–1 aetHiroaki Matsuyama
1985Shimizu Shogyo2–0Yokkaichi Chuo KogyoHisashi Kurosaki
1986Tokai Shizuoka2–0KunimiAdemir Santos
1987Kunimi1–0Tokai Shizuoka
1988Shimizu Shogyo1–0Ichiritsu Funabashi
1989Minamiuwa2–1BunanYoshihiro Nishida
1990Kunimi1–0 aetKagoshima Jitsugyo
1991Teikyo
Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo		2–2 aetMasanobu Matsunami
1992Kunimi2–0Yamashiro
1993Shimizu Shogyo2–1KunimiYoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Nakata
1994Ichiritsu Funabashi5–0Itabashi TeikyoSeigo Narazaki
1995Kagoshima Jitsugyo
Shizuoka Gakuen		2–2 aet
1996Ichiritsu Funabashi2–1Tōkō GakuenShunsuke Nakamura
1997Higashi Fukuoka2–1TeikyoYasuhito Endō, Koji Nakata
1998Higashi Fukuoka4–2TeikyoKeiji Tamada
1999Ichiritsu Funabashi2–0Kagoshima JitsugyoDaisuke Matsui
2000Kunimi3–0Kusatsu HigashiMarcus Tulio Tanaka, Yoshito Ōkubo
2001Kunimi3–1Gifu Kogyo
2002Ichiritsu Funabashi1–0Nagasaki Kunimi
2003Kunimi6–0Chikuyo GakuenSōta Hirayama
2004Kagoshima Jitsugyo0–0 aet
(4-2p)		Ichiritsu FunabashiKeisuke Honda, Shinji Okazaki
2005Yasu2–1 aetKagoshima JitsugyoTakashi Inui
2006Morioka Shogyo2–1SakuyoRyohei Yamazaki
2007RKU Kashiwa4–0Fujieda HigashiGenki Omae, Nobuhisa Urata
2008Hiroshima Minami3–2Kagoshima JoseiYuya Osako
2009Yamanashi Gakuin1–0Aomori YamadaKoki Arita
2010Takigawa Daini5–3Kyoto KumiyamaRyo Miyaichi, Gaku Shibasaki, Shintaro Kurumaya
2011Ichiritsu Funabashi2–1 aetYokkaichi Chuo KogyoRyohei Shirasaki, Musashi Suzuki
2012Hōshō2–2 aet
(5–3p)		Kyoto TachibanaNaomichi Ueda, Reo Mochizuki
2013Toyama Daiichi3–2 aetSeiryoTomoya Koyamatsu, Tsukasa Morishima
2014Seiryo4–2 aetMaebashi IkueiRyuho Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Reo Hatate
Ryoma Watanabe, Yuto Iwasaki
2015Higashi Fukuoka5–0Kokugakuin KugayamaDaiki Sugioka, Jefferson Tabinas
Takuro Kaneko, Koki Ogawa
2016Aomori Yamada5–0Maebashi IkueiItsuki Oda
2017Maebashi Ikuei1–0RKU KashiwaRyotaro Tsunoda, Kaishu Sano, Riku Matsuda
2018Aomori Yamada3–1RKU KashiwaRiku Danzaki, Ikuma Sekigawa, Toichi Suzuki
2019Shizuoka Gakuen3–2Aomori YamadaTaiga Hata, Yota Komi
2020Yamanashi Gakuin2–2 aet
(4–2 p)		Aomori YamadaPaul Tabinas
2021Aomori Yamada4–0OhzuKuryu Matsuki, Anrie Chase
2022Okayama Gakugeikan3–1HigashiyamaShio Fukuda
2023TBD8 January 2024TBD

Records and statistics

Most successful prefectures

Excluding the special tournament on 1934 and the Korean schools.

Pos.PrefecturesTitlesWinning Schools
1 Hyōgo18Mikage Shihan (11); Kobe Itchu (6); Takigawa Daini (1)
2 Saitama13Urawa Ichiritsu (4); Urawa (3); Urawa Higashi (3); Saitama Kengaku (1); Urawa Nishi (1); Bunan (1)
3 Shizuoka10Fujieda Higashi (4); Shimizu Shogyo (3); Shizuoka Gakuen (2); Shimizu Higashi (1); Tokai Shizuoka (1)
4 Hiroshima9Hiroshima Kokusai (3); Hiroshima (2); Shudo (2); Sanyo (1); Hiroshima Minami (1)
5 Chiba8Ichiritsu Funabashi (5); Narashino (3); RKU Kashiwa (1)
6 Nagasaki7Kunimi (6); Shimabara Shogyo (1)
7 Tokyo6Teikyo (6)
8 Osaka5Ikeda (1); Kishiwada (1); Meisei (1); Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan (1); Kansai U. Hokuyo (1)
9 Fukuoka3Higashi Fukuoka (3)
Aomori 3 Aomori Yamada (3)
10 Kyoto2Yamashiro (1); Rakuhoku (1)
Kagoshima2Kagoshima Jitsugyo (2)
Akita2Akita Shogyo (2)
Ibaraki2Koga Daiichi (2)

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
  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.
  2. "【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.
  3. "Hiroshima Minami top of the class". japantimes.co.jp. Japan Times. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
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