2025 Japanese Super Cup

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2025 Japanese Super Cup
Date8 February 2025
Venue Japan National Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Referee Takafumi Mikuriya
Attendance53,343
WeatherFine
11.7 °C (53.1 °F)
25% humidity
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The 2025 Japanese Super Cup (known as Fujifilm Super Cup 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was the 32nd Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment, and the 40th overall. It was held on 8 February 2025 between the 2024 J1 League champions and Emperor's Cup winners Vissel Kobe and the 2024 J1 League runners-up Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the fourth league runners-up to ever qualify for the competition. It took place at the Japan National Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo. [1]

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima defeated the double winners 2–0, keeping their perfect record in the Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment in 1994. They won their fifth Super Cup title and the first since 2016. They were also the first to win the trophy by defeating a double-winning team since themselves in 2008, when they subdued Kashima Antlers. With this defeat, Vissel became the first team to lose consecutive Super Cup matches since Gamba Osaka in 2010 and the first league champions to suffer this feat since Yokohama F. Marinos in 2005.

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Vissel Kobe 0–2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima
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Japan National Stadium, Tokyo
Attendance: 53,343
Referee: Takafumi Mikuriya
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GK21 Flag of Japan.svg Shota Arai
RB44 Flag of Japan.svg Mitsuki Hidaka Sub off.svg 85'
CB4 Flag of Japan.svg Tetsushi Yamakawa (c)Yellow card.svg 59'
CB31 Flag of Japan.svg Takuya Iwanami Yellow card.svg 87'
LB20 Flag of Japan.svg Yuta Koike Sub off.svg 64'
DM5 Flag of Japan.svg Mitsuki Saito Yellow card.svg 78'
CM22 Flag of Japan.svg Haruka Motoyama Sub off.svg 64'
CM30 Flag of Japan.svg Kakeru Yamauchi
RW2 Flag of Japan.svg Nanasei Iino Sub off.svg 46'
LW13 Flag of Japan.svg Daiju Sasaki Sub off.svg 64'
CF35 Flag of Japan.svg Niina Tominaga
Substitutes:
GK1 Flag of Japan.svg Daiya Maekawa
DF3 Flag of Brazil.svg Matheus Thuler
DF15 Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Honda
DF24 Flag of Japan.svg Gōtoku Sakai Sub on.svg 64'
MF6 Flag of Japan.svg Takahiro Ogihara
MF11 Flag of Japan.svg Yoshinori Muto Sub on.svg 64'
MF14 Flag of Japan.svg Koya Yuruki Sub on.svg 46'
MF25 Flag of Japan.svg Yuya Kuwasaki Sub on.svg 85'
FW10 Flag of Japan.svg Yuya Osako Sub on.svg 64'
Manager:
Flag of Japan.svg Takayuki Yoshida
GK1 Flag of Japan.svg Keisuke Osako
CB33 Flag of Japan.svg Tsukasa Shiotani
CB4 Flag of Japan.svg Hayato Araki
CB19 Flag of Japan.svg Sho Sasaki (c)
RM15 Flag of Japan.svg Shuto Nakano Sub off.svg 89'
CM35 Flag of Japan.svg Yotaro Nakajima
CM14 Flag of Japan.svg Satoshi Tanaka Sub off.svg 69'
LM24 Flag of Japan.svg Shunki Higashi Sub off.svg 69'
AM51 Flag of Japan.svg Mutsuki Kato Sub off.svg 89'
AM30 Flag of Germany.svg Tolgay Arslan Sub off.svg 76'
CF9 Flag of Japan.svg Ryo Germain
Substitutes:
GK21 Flag of Japan.svg Yudai Tanaka
DF3 Flag of Japan.svg Taichi Yamasaki
DF13 Flag of Japan.svg Naoto Arai Sub on.svg 89'
MF6 Flag of Japan.svg Hayao Kawabe Sub on.svg 69'
MF18 Flag of Japan.svg Daiki Suga Sub on.svg 69'
MF20 Flag of Japan.svg Shion Inoue
MF32 Flag of Japan.svg Sota Koshimichi Sub on.svg 89'
FW11 Flag of Japan.svg Makoto Mitsuta
FW39 Flag of Japan.svg Sota Nakamura Sub on.svg 76'
Manager:
Flag of Germany.svg Michael Skibbe

Assistant referees:
Masaru Hasegawa
Satoshi Michiyama
Fourth official:
Koei Koya
Video assistant referee:
Futoshi Nakamura
Assistant video assistant referee:
Ryo Hirama

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Nine named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions, and a maximum of two additional concussion substitutions.

See also

References

  1. "2025年Jリーグ・ルヴァンカップの開幕日はいつ?" [When is the start date of the 2025 J.League Levain Cup? 2025 season match schedule]. Goal.com Japan (in Japanese). 7 December 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2025.