2018 Suruga Bank Championship

The Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka hosted the match
Cerezo Osaka Independiente 0 1
Date	8 August 2018 (2018-08-08)
Venue	Yanmar Stadium Nagai, Osaka
Referee	Matthew Conger (New Zealand)
Attendance	10,035
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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

8 August 2018 (2018-08-08)

19:00 UTC+9

Cerezo Osaka	0–1	Independiente
	Report (JFA) Report (J.League) Report (CONMEBOL)	Romero 28'

Yanmar Stadium Nagai, Osaka

Attendance: 10,035^[5]

Referee: Matthew Conger (New Zealand)

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