The 60th
All Japan Senior Football Championship (
Japanese
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: 第60回全国社会人サッカー選手権大会,
Hepburn: ''Dai 60-kai zenkoku shakai hito sakkā senshuken taikai),'' officially known as the 2024 All Japan Adults Football Tournament, and commonly referred to as the 2024 Shakaijin Cup,
was the 60th edition of the annually contested
single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, ...
(or cup) for the best-ranked amateur clubs in Japan, non-league clubs (participating in Regional or Prefectural Leagues and not included in the nation-wide league competitions).
FC Kariya
are a Japanese football club based in Kariya, Aichi. They're aiming to gain professional status. Since the 2022 season, after being relegated from the Japan Football League, they are currently playing in the Tōkai Adult Soccer League, whic ...
were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the semifinals by
Japan Soccer College and finished in fourth place.
Japan Soccer College became champions, beating FC Tokushima in the final, earning them their first title in the competition. They also became only the third team from Hokushin'etsu to do so, and the only one from Niigata Prefecture.
Venues
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Moriyama City
** Yasugawa Historical Park Soccer Field (Big Lake)
*** Court B
*** Court C
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Otsu City
**
Ojiyama Sports Park Athletics Stadium
** Ikadachi Park Lawn Ground
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Higashiomi City
** Nunobiki Green Stadium
** Kyocera Corporation Shiga Higashiomi Factory General Ground
** Higashiomi City Notogawa Ground
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Koka City
** Koka City Minakuchi Sports no Mori Athletics Stadium
Tournament guidelines
Every match in the tournament were played with 40-minute halves, instead of the usual 45, resulting in 80 minutes of action in total, excluding added time. If a match is tied at full time, it would go directly to a
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
, without extra time. Up to five substitutions were allowed, with a maximum of three substitution breaks (excluding half-time), as per FIFA's recommendation.
The top three teams from the tournament qualified for the 2024 edition of the
Japanese Regional Champions League, which serves as the play-off for the
Japan Football League
The , also known as simply the JFL, is the 4th tier of the Japanese association football league system, positioned beneath the three divisions of the J.League. The league features fully professional teams that hold J.League 100 Year Plan club sta ...
. However, the top three teams are not necessarily the semi-finalists; rather, they will be the best-ranked teams in the "Shakaijin" among those that have not won their respective Regional Leagues.
Regarding suspensions, players or officials could be suspended for an upcoming match if they: (1) receive yellow cards in two consecutive matches, or (2) are shown a red card. Accumulated yellow cards were reset after the quarter-finals.
Participating teams
Regional champions who have already qualified for the Regional Champions League are denoted in bold. Lower-tier clubs from the 6th tier or below are not eligible to play in the Regional Champions League and are denoted in ''italics''.
Bracket
Schedule
''All times are in UTC+09:00, according to Japan Standard Time (JST).''
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
''FC Kariya, Japan Soccer College and J-Lease FC qualified for the Regional Champions League.''
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
References
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