2021 Japanese Super Cup

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]

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

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
  • Mitoma 29', 33'
  • Kobayashi 90+6'
 Report
Attendance: 4,208
Referee: Yusuke Araki
Kawasaki Frontale
Gamba Osaka
GK1 Jung Sung-ryong
RB13 Miki Yamane
CB4 Jesiel
CB5 Shogo Taniguchi (c)
LB47 Reo Hatate
DM6 João Schmidt 64'
CM25 Ao Tanaka
CM8 Yasuto Wakizaka 64'
RF41 Akihiro Ienaga 83'
CF9 Leandro Damião 72'
LF18 Kaoru Mitoma 72'
Substitutes:
GK27 Kenta Tanno
DF7 Shintaro Kurumaya 90+1'
MF3 Koki Tsukagawa 64' 90+1'
MF16 Tatsuya Hasegawa 72'
MF22 Kento Tachibanada 64'
FW11 Yu Kobayashi 72'
FW19 Daiya Tono 83'
Manager:
Toru Oniki
GK1 Masaaki Higashiguchi
RB8 Kosuke Onose
CB5 Genta Miura (c)
CB13 Shunya Suganuma
LB4 Hiroki Fujiharu
DM29 Yuki Yamamoto
CM15 Yosuke Ideguchi
CM10 Shu Kurata 90'
RF21 Shinya Yajima 69'
CF18 Patric 81'
LF34 Shuhei Kawasaki 69'
Substitutes:
GK22 Jun Ichimori
DF3 Gen Shoji
DF27 Ryu Takao 90'
MF6 Ju Se-jong
FW9 Leandro Pereira 69'
FW20 Kazunari Ichimi 81'
FW32 Tiago Alves 69'
Head coach:
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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