2022 Emperor's Cup final

The 2022 Emperor's Cup final was the final of the 2022 Emperor's Cup, the 102nd edition of the Emperor's Cup. Ventforet Kofu played their first-ever Emperor's Cup final, as their past best performances were defeats in the quarter-finals in 2006, 2013, 2018, and 2019. It is also their first-ever elite cup final, as Kofu never got past the quarter-finals in the J.League Cup. Sanfrecce Hiroshima had their sixth major chance to win the trophy in the J.League era, having qualified for the final five times; in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2007, and 2013, losing in all five finals. As J2 League's Ventforet Kofu became one of the finalists, this 2022 Final was the seventh of the competition to feature at least one team from the second tier of Japanese football, with a J2 League team appearing in the competition's final for the first time in 1980.

After the match, leaving as the final winners of the 2022 Emperor's Cup,^[1][2] Ventforet Kofu were granted the right to qualify for the 2023–24 AFC Champions League. For the second consecutive time, a club playing in the second division will be playing in a continental competition, repeating Jeonnam Dragons' feat at the 2022 AFC Champions League.

Teams

Road to the final

Format

The final was played in a single leg format. It was hurried to be played in mid-October, instead of January, as usual, due to the schedule conflict with the realization and holding period of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Should the match remained tied after regulation time, extra time would have been added. Would it necessary, a penalty shoot-out would have been used to decide the winning team.

Details

15 October 2022 (2022-10-15)

14:03 JST

Ventforet Kofu	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Mitsuhira 26'	Report (JFA) Report (JFA)	Kawamura 84'
Penalties
Lira Getúlio Matsumoto Ishikawa Yamamoto	5–4	Sotiriou Matsumoto Ben Khalifa Kawamura Mitsuta

Japan National Stadium, Yokohama, Kanagawa

Attendance: 37,998

Referee: Ryuji Sato

Ventforet Kofu

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

GK 1 Shuhei Kawata DF 2 Hidehiro Sugai DF 5 Niki Urakami  112' DF 23 Masahiro Sekiguchi DF 40 Eduardo Mancha MF 7 Sho Araki (c)  66' MF 18 Yoshiki Torikai  62' MF 24 Riku Yamada  112' MF 26 Toshiki Ishikawa MF 41 Motoki Hasegawa  101' FW 9 Kazushi Mitsuhira  62' Substitutes: GK 31 Kosuke Okanishi DF 4 Hideomi Yamamoto  112' DF 22 Riku Nozawa  66' DF 32 Foguete  112' MF 20 Nagi Matsumoto  62' FW 10 Willian Lira  62' FW 29 Getúlio  101' Manager: Tatsuma Yoshida

GK 38 Keisuke Osako DF 3 Tsukasa Shiotani DF 4 Hayato Araki DF 19 Sho Sasaki (c) MF 25 Yusuke Chajima  70' MF 27 Takumu Kawamura MF 7 Gakuto Notsuda  79' MF 18 Yoshifumi Kashiwa  70' MF 10 Tsukasa Morishima  32'  46' MF 39 Makoto Mitsuta FW 9 Douglas Vieira  46' Substitutes: GK 22 Goro Kawanami DF 2 Yuki Nogami  70' DF 21 Jelani Reshaun Sumiyoshi  91' MF 14 Ezequiel  46'  91' MF 17 Taishi Matsumoto  70' FW 13 Nassim Ben Khalifa  46' FW 20 Pieros Sotiriou  79' Manager: Michael Skibbe

References

External links

• Emperor's Cup JFA 102nd Japan Football Championship (in English)
• 天皇杯 JFA 第102回全日本サッカー選手権大会 (in Japanese)