| All Japan High School Soccer Tournament | |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Num Teams: | 48 |
| Prevseason: | 2023 |
| Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2024 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (第103回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会; All Japan JFA 103rd High School Soccer Tournament) will mark the 103rd edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan, to be contested by all 48 prefectural qualifications' winning schools.[1]
The defending champions are Aomori Yamada, who won the 2023 tournament by 3–1 win over underdogs Ohmi in the final.[2]
As the norm, from the first round to the quarterfinals, the matches will have a duration of 80 minutes, split into two halves of 40 minutes each (not counting injury time). The semi-finals and the final will have matches the traditional format of around 90 minutes, however, matching the standard match length of professional football. During the tournament, if a match should be tied, it will directly require a penalty shoot-outs, except for the final, where extra-time will be played if the match will be kept tied for 90 minutes.
The entire tournament, including the prefectural tournament finals, is streamed on SportsBull[3] and TVer free of charge. On TV, the semi-finals and the final will be aired nationally on NTV, while NNN, NNS and other non-network stations will show select matches from the first round to quarterfinals.[4]
The tournament will take place in a 17-day span, with the tournament split into a total of 6 stages, as confirmed by the JFA on 21 October. The draw to decide the tournament schedule and the match pairings will be done in 18 November.[5]
| Round | Date | Matches | Clubs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First round | 28-29 December 2024 | 16 | ||
| Second round | 31 December 2024 | 16 | 32 (16+16) → 16 | |
| Third round | 2 January 2025 | 8 | 16 → 8 | |
| Quarter-finals | 4 January 2025 | 4 | 8 → 4 | |
| Semi-finals | 11 January 2025 | 2 | 4 → 2 | |
| Final | 13 January 2025 | 1 | 2 → 1 |
The tournament will be held in four prefectures and nine stadiums. In Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures, two venues are located in each, while three are located in Tokyo. The venues are:[6]
See main article: 2024 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament prefectural qualifiers. All the 47 prefectures holds knockout stage qualifiers for their respective high schools. Tokyo's qualifiers is the only to qualify two teams to the competition, as they have the largest amount of registered high schools affiliated with the All-Japan High School Soccer Federation. Teams playing at higher-level leagues earns a bye from the early stages of their respective qualifiers, getting automatically seeded in more advanced rounds, usually between the 3rd and 4th round of their qualifiers.
Most of the qualifiers starts on October. Prefectures with a large amount of registered high schools, like Chiba and Kanagawa, started their qualifiers earlier than the rest.[7]
Information about the broadcasts of the semi-finals and finals of each of the prefectural qualifiers was published by NTV.[8]
On notable absences from this year's tournament:
The tournament welcomed five debutants, with all winning their prefectural tournament having Prince League teams playing on them. Only four participating teams won the national tournament two or more times, with long-awaited returnee Teikyo (absent from the previous 14 tournaments) having won six.[25] Qualifying by 28 consecutive seasons (no other qualified school boast similar streak) are current champions Aomori Yamada, also the most successful high school of the century, with four national wins, are joint fifth-placed on all-time ranking by national wins and second-placed among the 2024 participating teams by national wins, having won their national titles from 2016 to 2023.[26]
Miyagi's Tohoku Gakuin qualified for the tournament by the fifth time, appearing from the first time in 37 seasons, having qualified for the last time on 1987.[27] Between the 48 qualified teams, they were absent from the national tournament for the longest time, with Fukui's Fukui Shogyo being the next on the list, appearing from the first time since 2007.[28]
| Prefecture | High School | League | Apps. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hokkaido Prince League | 2 | 4th | ||
| 1 | 30th | |||
| Tohoku Prince League | 2 | 3rd | ||
| Miyagi Football League | 4 | 5th | ||
| Akita Football League | 4 | 14th | ||
| Yamagata Football League | 4 | 2nd | ||
| Premier League East | 1 | 15th | ||
| Ibaraki Football League | 4 | 6th | ||
| Kanto Prince League D1 | 2 | 14th | ||
| Premier League East | 1 | 27th | ||
| Saitama Football League | 4 | 4th | ||
| Premier League East | 1 | 8th | ||
| Kanto Prince League D1 | 2 | 35th | ||
| Horikoshi High School | Tokyo T1 League | 4 | 6th | |
| Kanagawa Football League | 4 | 1st | ||
| Kanto Prince League D2 | 3 | 10th | ||
| Nagano Football League | 4 | 3rd | ||
| Niigata Meikun High School | Hokushin'etsu Prince League D1 | 2 | 7th | |
| Toyama Football League | 4 | 1st | ||
| Ishikawa Football League | 4 | 1st | ||
| Fukui Football League | 4 | 2nd | ||
| Premier League West | 1 | 15th | ||
| Aichi Football League | 4 | 2nd | ||
| Mie Football League | 4 | 4th | ||
| Gifu Football League | 4 | 11th | ||
| Shiga Football League | 4 | 11th | ||
| Kyoto Tachibana High School | Kansai Prince League D1 | 2 | 11th | |
| Kansai Prince League D1 | 2 | 3rd | ||
| Kansai Prince League D2 | 3 | 22nd | ||
| Nara Football League | 4 | 17th | ||
| Wakayama Football League | 4 | 10th | ||
| 1 | 20th | |||
| Shimane Football League | 4 | 1st | ||
| Chugoku Prince League | 2 | 7th | ||
| Hiroshima Football League | 4 | 2nd | ||
| Chugoku Prince League | 2 | 30th | ||
| Shikoku Prince League | 2 | 1st | ||
| Shikoku Prince League | 2 | 21st | ||
| Ehime Football League | 4 | 6th | ||
| Kochi Football League | 4 | 19th | ||
| Premier League West | 1 | 23rd | ||
| Kyushu Prince League D2 | 3 | 14th | ||
| Kyushu Prince League D2 | 3 | 10th | ||
| Premier League West | 1 | 21st | ||
| Oita Football League | 4 | 7th | ||
| Kyushu Prince League D1 | 2 | 18th | ||
| Premier League West | 1 | 8th | ||
| Okinawa Football League | 4 | 18th | ||
The draw was conducted on 18 November 2024.[29]
| Pos. | Player | Moving from | Moving to | League |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MF | Ayumu Kameda[30] | RKU Kashiwa | ||
| MF | Kanaru Matsumoto[31] | RKU Kashiwa | ||
| MF | Sota Minami[32] | Nissho Gakuen | ||
| MF | Shuta Sasa[33] | Sapporo Otani | ||
| MF | Yudai Shimamoto[34] | Ohzu | J1 | |