2021 Japanese Super Cup
Kawasaki Frontale Gamba Osaka
3 2
Date20 February 2021
VenueSaitama Stadium 2002, Saitama
RefereeYusuke Araki
Attendance4,208
WeatherFine
17 °C (63 °F)
31% humidity
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The 2021 Japanese Super Cup (known as Fuji Xerox Super Cup 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was the 28th Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment, and the 36th overall. It was held on 20 February 2021 between the 2020 J1 League champions and Emperor's Cup winners Kawasaki Frontale and the league's (and cup) runners-up Gamba Osaka, the third league runners-up to ever qualify for the competition and the first club other than Urawa Red Diamonds to qualify in this way. It took place at the Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Saitama. This was the first Super Cup held after the recognition by the Guinness World Records as Fuji Xerox sponsored the competition for a world record of 27 years, the longest sponsorship of a football super cup.[1]

This was Frontale's third Super Cup appearance overall, all in the previous four years; they only failed to qualify in 2020 and won once in 2019. At the other hand, this was Gamba's seventh Super Cup appearance and their first since 2016, winning twice (in 2007 and 2015).

Frontale took a 2–0 lead from Kaoru Mitoma in the first half before being equalized in the second half. On the last minute of the second half additional time, substitute Yu Kobayashi scored the winner for the double winners and earned them their second Super Cup title. Gamba extended their trophy drought, its most recent title was the 2015 Emperor's Cup.

Match details

Kawasaki Frontale3–2Gamba Osaka
 Report
Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama
Attendance: 4,208
Referee: Yusuke Araki
Kawasaki Frontale
Gamba Osaka
GK 1 South Korea Jung Sung-ryong
RB 13 Japan Miki Yamane
CB 4 Brazil Jesiel
CB 5 Japan Shogo Taniguchi (c)
LB 47 Japan Reo Hatate
DM 6 Brazil João Schmidt downward-facing red arrow 64'
CM 25 Japan Ao Tanaka
CM 8 Japan Yasuto Wakizaka downward-facing red arrow 64'
RF 41 Japan Akihiro Ienaga downward-facing red arrow 83'
CF 9 Brazil Leandro Damião downward-facing red arrow 72'
LF 18 Japan Kaoru Mitoma downward-facing red arrow 72'
Substitutes:
GK 27 Japan Kenta Tanno
DF 7 Japan Shintaro Kurumaya upward-facing green arrow 90+1'
MF 3 Japan Koki Tsukagawa upward-facing green arrow 64' downward-facing red arrow 90+1'
MF 16 Japan Tatsuya Hasegawa upward-facing green arrow 72'
MF 22 Japan Kento Tachibanada upward-facing green arrow 64'
FW 11 Japan Yu Kobayashi upward-facing green arrow 72'
FW 19 Japan Daiya Tono upward-facing green arrow 83'
Manager:
Japan Toru Oniki
GK 1 Japan Masaaki Higashiguchi
RB 8 Japan Kosuke Onose
CB 5 Japan Genta Miura (c)
CB 13 Japan Shunya Suganuma
LB 4 Japan Hiroki Fujiharu
DM 29 Japan Yuki Yamamoto
CM 15 Japan Yosuke Ideguchi
CM 10 Japan Shu Kurata downward-facing red arrow 90'
RF 21 Japan Shinya Yajima downward-facing red arrow 69'
CF 18 Brazil Patric downward-facing red arrow 81'
LF 34 Japan Shuhei Kawasaki downward-facing red arrow 69'
Substitutes:
GK 22 Japan Jun Ichimori
DF 3 Japan Gen Shoji
DF 27 Japan Ryu Takao upward-facing green arrow 90'
MF 6 South Korea Ju Se-jong
FW 9 Brazil Leandro Pereira upward-facing green arrow 69'
FW 20 Japan Kazunari Ichimi upward-facing green arrow 81'
FW 32 Brazil Tiago Alves upward-facing green arrow 69'
Head coach:
Japan Tsuneyasu Miyamoto

Assistant referees:
Yusuke Hamamoto
Kota Watanabe
Fourth official:
Futoshi Nakamura
Video assistant referee:
Hiroyuki Kimura
Assistant video assistant referee:
Osamu Nomura

Match rules

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

References

  1. ^ "FUJI XEROX SUPER CUP recognized by the Guinness World Records as the "Longest sponsorship of a football (soccer) super cup"" (Press release). Japan Professional Football League. 19 December 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
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