2018 Suruga Bank Championship

2018 Suruga Bank Championship
The Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka hosted the match
Date8 August 2018 (2018-08-08)
VenueYanmar Stadium Nagai, Osaka
RefereeMatthew Conger (New Zealand)
Attendance10,035

The 2018 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2018; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2018) was the eleventh edition of the Suruga Bank Championship (also referred to as the J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship Final), the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of Japan, CONMEBOL, the football governing body of South America, and J.League, the professional football league of Japan, between the champions of the previous season's J.League Cup and Copa Sudamericana.

The match was contested between Japanese team Cerezo Osaka, the 2017 J.League Cup champions, and Argentinian team Independiente, the 2017 Copa Sudamericana champions.[1] It was hosted by Cerezo Osaka at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka, Japan on 8 August 2018.[2]

Independiente defeated Cerezo Osaka 1–0 to win their first Suruga Bank Championship title.[3]

Teams

Team Association / Confederation Qualification Previous appearances
Cerezo Osaka Japan Football Association 2017 J.League Cup champions None
Independiente CONMEBOL 2017 Copa Sudamericana champions 1 (2011)

Format

The Suruga Bank Championship was played as a single match, with the J.League Cup winners hosting the match. If tied at the end of regulation, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner. A maximum of six substitutions may be made during the match.[4]

Match

Details

Cerezo Osaka 0–1 Independiente
Report (JFA)
Report (J.League)
Report (CONMEBOL)
  • Romero 28'
Cerezo Osaka
Independiente
GK 27 Kenta Tanno
RB 20 Noriyuki Sakemoto
CB 4 Kota Fujimoto  81'
CB 37 Reiya Morishita
CB 23 Tatsuya Yamashita  59'
LB 5 Yusuke Tanaka  81'
RM 17 Takaki Fukumitsu  46'
CM 26 Daichi Akiyama (c)  79'
CM 43 Osmar
LM 13 Toshiyuki Takagi  46'
CF 25 Hirofumi Yamauchi  59'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Takumi Nagaishi
DF 16 Eiichi Katayama  81'
DF 22 Matej Jonjić  81'
MF 11 Souza  59'
MF 32 Atomu Tanaka  46'
MF 36 Toshiki Onozawa  46'
FW 40 Mizuki Ando  59'
Manager:
Yoon Jong-hwan
GK 25 Martín Campaña (c)
RB 16 Fabricio Bustos
CB 2 Alan Franco
CB 4 Jorge Figal
LB 6 Juan Sánchez Miño  79'
CM 22 Francisco Silva  78'
CM 19 Pablo Hernández  89'
RW 18 Silvio Romero  68'
AM 8 Maximiliano Meza  90+1'
LW 7 Martín Benítez  71'
CF 9 Emmanuel Gigliotti  90+2'
Substitutes:
GK 13 Milton Álvarez
DF 3 Guillermo Burdisso  90+1'
DF 20 Gastón Silva  79'
MF 5 Nicolás Domingo  78'
MF 10 Fernando Gaibor  89'
MF 21 Carlos Benavídez  68'
FW 32 Ezequiel Cerutti  71'
Manager:
Ariel Holan

Assistant referees:
Mark Rule (New Zealand)
Mark Whitehead (New Zealand)
Fourth official:
Takuto Okabe (Japan)

See also

References

  1. ^ "La CONMEBOL Recopa y la Suruga Bank tienen fechas definidas". CONMEBOL.com. 3 December 2017.
  2. ^ "スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2018 OSAKA JリーグYBCルヴァンカップ/CONMEBOLスダメリカーナ王者決定戦 セレッソ大阪がインデペンディエンテ(アルゼンチン)と対戦 (8/8@大阪/ヤンマースタジアム長居)". Japan Football Association. 14 December 2017.
  3. ^ "La Copa vuelve a Sudamérica: Independiente campeón de la Suruga Bank". CONMEBOL.com. 8 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Reglamento Conmebol Sudamericana 2017" (PDF). CONMEBOL.com.
  5. ^ "マッチレポート" (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Football Association.