2022 Japanese Super Cup

2022 Japanese Super Cup

Kawasaki Frontale Urawa Red Diamonds 0 2
Date	12 February 2022
Venue	Nissan Stadium, Yokohama
Referee	Hiroki Kasahara
Attendance	18,558
Weather	Fine 8.5 °C (47.3 °F) 40% humidity
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The 2022 Japanese Super Cup (known as FUJIFILM Super Cup 2022 for sponsorship reasons) was the 29th Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment, and the 37th overall. It was held on 12 February 2022 between the 2021 J1 League champions Kawasaki Frontale, whom also the Super Cup holders, and the 2021 Emperor's Cup winners Urawa Red Diamonds at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Kanagawa. ^[1]

This was Frontale's fourth Super Cup appearance overall, all in the previous five years; they only failed to qualify in 2020 and won twice in 2019 and 2021. At the other hand, this was Urawa's tenth Super Cup appearance and their first since 2019; they previously had won four times (in 1979, 1980, 1983, and 2006).

Ataru Esaka scored in each half to won Urawa their fifth Super Cup ever, second as Urawa Red Diamonds, and the first in 16 years. Frontale lost the Super Cup match for the first time since their maiden appearance in 2018.

Details

12 February 2022

13:35 JST

Kawasaki Frontale	0–2	Urawa Red Diamonds
	JLeague.co (EN) JLeague.jp (JA)	Esaka 7', 81'

Nissan Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 18,558

Referee: Hiroki Kasahara

Kawasaki Frontale

Urawa Red Diamonds

GK 1 Jung Sung-ryong RB 13 Miki Yamane CB 5 Shogo Taniguchi (c) CB 7 Shintaro Kurumaya LB 2 Kyohei Noborizato DM 6 João Schmidt  46' CM 14 Yasuto Wakizaka  71' CM 10 Ryota Oshima  82' RW 41 Akihiro Ienaga LW 18 Chanathip Songkrasin  77' CF 9 Leandro Damião  71' Substitutes: GK 27 Kenta Tanno MF 3 Koki Tsukagawa  82' MF 16 Tatsuki Seko  71' MF 31 Kazuya Yamamura FW 11 Yu Kobayashi  77' FW 20 Kei Chinen  71' FW 23 Marcinho  46' Manager: Toru Oniki

GK 1 Shusaku Nishikawa (c) RB 2 Hiroki Sakai CB 4 Takuya Iwanami CB 28 Alexander Scholz LB 6 Kazuaki Mawatari DM 19 Ken Iwao RM 14 Takahiro Sekine  86' CM 22 Kai Shibato CM 3 Atsuki Ito  82' LM 15 Takahiro Akimoto  82' CF 33 Ataru Esaka  86' Substitutes: GK 12 Zion Suzuki DF 13 Tomoya Inukai  86' DF 20 Tetsuya Chinen DF 24 Yuta Miyamoto  86' MF 25 Kaito Yasui MF 40 Yuichi Hirano  82' FW 27 Kai Matsuzaki  82' Manager: Ricardo Rodríguez

Assistant referees: Isao Nishihashi Kentaro Matsui Fourth official: Masuya Ueda Video assistant referee: Yudai Yamamoto Assistant video assistant referee: Haruhiro Otsuka

Match rules [2] 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions, and a maximum of two additional concussion substitutions.

References

1. "Japan Professional Football League 24 December 2021". jleague.co. Japan Professional Football League. 24 December 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
2. "[公式] FUJI FILM SUPER CUP 2022：Jリーグ.jp". jleague.jp (in Japanese). Japan Professional Football League. Retrieved 12 February 2022.