2014 J.League Cup

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2014 J.League Cup
Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
Tournament details
Country Japan
Teams18
Final positions
ChampionsGamba Osaka (2nd title)
Runner-upSanfrecce Hiroshima
Tournament statistics
Matches played55
Goals scored169 (3.07 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Cristiano (6 goals)
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The 2014 J.League Cup, also known as the 2014 J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup for sponsoring purposes, is the 39th edition of the most prestigious Japanese soccer league cup tournament and the 22nd edition under the current J.League Cup format.

Format

Teams from the J.League Division 1 will take part in the tournament. Cerezo Osaka, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Yokohama F. Marinos and Kawasaki Frontale were given a bye to the quarter-finals due to qualification in the 2014 AFC Champions League. The remaining 14 teams started from the group stage, where they were divided into two groups of seven. The group winners and the runners-up of each group qualified for the quarter-final along with the four teams which qualified for the AFC Champions League.

Group stage

Standings

Results

All times are JST (UTC+9)

Group A

Gamba Osaka2–0Vissel Kobe
A. Sato
53'		 Report
Suita
Attendance: 8,378
Referee: Hajime Matsuo
FC Tokyo3–1Kashima Antlers
Kawano 8'
Ota 10'
Mita 71'		 Report Motoyama 72'
Chōfu
Attendance: 10,353
Shimizu S-Pulse4–0Vegalta Sendai
Nagasawa 21'
Omae 32'
Novaković 68', 74'		 Report
Vegalta Sendai1–1FC Tokyo
Kamata 62'
Edu 77' (pen.
)
Attendance: 7,094
Referee: Coote David
Kashima Antlers3–1Sagan Tosu
Luís Alberto
87'		 Hayasaka 22'
Attendance: 6,966
Referee: Yuichi Nishimura
Shimizu S-Pulse1–0Gamba Osaka
Nagasawa 33'
Attendance: 8,033
Referee: Minoru Tojo
Vegalta Sendai1–2Kashima Antlers
Muto 60' Nozawa 41'
Akasaki 83'
Attendance: 7,583
Referee: Takuya Maeda
Vissel Kobe0–3FC Tokyo
Hirayama
89'
Noevir Stadium Kobe, Hyōgo-ku, Kobe
Sagan Tosu0–2Gamba Osaka
Omori 34'
Ogawa 73'
FC Tokyo2–3Shimizu S-Pulse
Edu
18', 87'		 T. Takagi 8'
Omae 21'
Novaković 57'
Chofu, Tokyo
Attendance: 8,749
Referee: Kazuyoshi Enomoto
Gamba Osaka2–1Kashima Antlers
Kurata 4'
Yonekura 80'
Davi
72'
Suita
Attendance: 8,103
Referee: Yoshiro Imamura
Vissel Kobe3–2Sagan Tosu
Matsumura 42'
Marquinhos 54'
Morioka 90+3'		 Bando 89', 90+4'
Shimizu S-Pulse1–2Vissel Kobe
Novaković 63' Jung Woo-young 33'
Iwanami 87'
Attendance: 11,815
Referee: Itaru Hirose
Sagan Tosu2–0Vegalta Sendai
Taniguchi 32' (pen.)
Kiyotake 57'
Saga Athletic Stadium, Saga
Gamba Osaka3–1FC Tokyo
Usami 16', 53'
Nishino 68'
Tokunaga
33'
Suita
Attendance: 12,818
Referee: Raczkowski Pawel
Vegalta Sendai1–0Gamba Osaka
Akamine 66'
Attendance: 7,965
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura
Kashima Antlers0–3Vissel Kobe
Sugiura 9'
Oya 57'
Hashimoto 75'
Attendance: 6,054
Referee: Hajime Matsuo
Sagan Tosu2–0Shimizu S-Pulse
Toyoda 39'
Mizunuma 76'
Saga Athletic Stadium, Saga
Kashima Antlers3–0Shimizu S-Pulse
Doi 16'
Akasaki 26'
Endo 90+3'
Attendance: 10,667
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
FC Tokyo0–2Sagan Tosu
Yasuda 44'
Ikeda 57'
Chofu, Tokyo
Attendance: 12,600
Vissel Kobe2–1Vegalta Sendai
Morioka 1'
Pedro Jùnior 90+3'		 Fujimura 37'

Group B

Tokushima Vortis1–3Albirex Niigata
Douglas 87' Report Suzuki 16', 24'
Tanaka 73'
Attendance: 4,234
Nagoya Grampus0–1Ventforet Kofu
Report Cristiano 30'
Mizuho Athletic Stadium, Nagoya
Attendance: 4,772
Kashiwa Reysol2–1Urawa Red Diamonds
Tanaka 43' (pen.)
Watanabe
79'		 Report Umesaki 17'
Kashiwa
Attendance: 9,585
Referee: Takuto Okabe
Ventforet Kofu1–1Kashiwa Reysol
Cristiano 84' Leandro Domingues 3'
Kōfu, Yamanashi
Attendance: 6,174
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Albirex Niigata3–3Nagoya Grampus
Kim Jin-Su 17'
Tanaka 29'
Koizumi
89'		 Tulio 49'
Yada 51'
Ogawa 60'
Attendance: 8,505
Referee: Kazuyoshi Enomoto
Urawa Red Diamonds2–1Omiya Ardija
Lee 16'
Aoki 87'		 Hashimoto 30'
Attendance: 20,697
Referee: Tierney Paul
Omiya Ardija1–1Kashiwa Reysol
Hashimoto 37' Hashimoto 55'
Nack5 Stadium Omiya, Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
Albirex Niigata1–0Ventforet Kofu
Suzuki 90+3'
Attendance: 7,765
Referee: Masaaki Iemoto
Urawa Red Diamonds4–3Tokushima Vortis
Sakano 32'
Yajima 50'
Kinoshita 85' (o.g.)
Hamada 90+1'		 Kubota 19'
Kogure 61'
Douglas 68'
Attendance: 16,294
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami
Omiya Ardija0–2Nagoya Grampus
Tanaka 61'
Yano 83'
Nack5 Stadium Omiya, Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
Kashiwa Reysol3–0Albirex Niigata
Tanaka 9'
Barada 34'
Watanabe
58'
Kashiwa
Attendance: 5,517
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Tokushima Vortis1–4Ventforet Kofu
Osaki 25' (pen.) Mizuno 5', 45+3'
Cristiano 20'
Fukuda 90'
Attendance: 3,574
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Ventforet Kofu3–0Omiya Ardija
Cristiano 34', 44'
Kawamoto 90+2'
Yamanashi Chuo Bank Stadium, Kōfu
Albirex Niigata0–1Urawa Red Diamonds
Ono 88' (o.g.)
Attendance: 15,965
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Nagoya Grampus2–1Tokushima Vortis
Tamada 28'
Ogawa 47'		 Kim Jong-min 26'
Attendance: 11,579
Referee: Akihiko Ikeuchi
Ventforet Kofu1–2Urawa Red Diamonds
Cristiano 53' Nasu 8'
Umesaki 74'
Kōfu, Yamanashi
Attendance: 9,074
Referee: Takuto Okabe
Nagoya Grampus1–0Kashiwa Reysol
Tulio 85'
Mizuho Athletic Stadium, Nagoya
Tokushima Vortis1–1Omiya Ardija
Hamada 52' Kikuchi 85'
Attendance: 3,956
Referee: Ryuji Sato
Urawa Red Diamonds5–2Nagoya Grampus
Kashiwagi 18'
Lee 40', 76'
Makino 60'
Sekiguchi 88'		 Nagai 23'
Matsuda 72'
Attendance: 33,837
Referee: Junpei Iida
Omiya Ardija0–0Albirex Niigata
Nack5 Stadium Omiya, Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
Attendance: 7,902
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Kashiwa Reysol4–1Tokushima Vortis
Leandro
67'		 Osaki 83'
Kashiwa
Attendance: 7,554

Knock-out stage

All times are

UTC+9
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Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
             
Urawa Red Diamonds 0 2 2
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 0 2 2
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 1 3
Kashiwa Reysol 0 2 2
Kashiwa Reysol 2 3 5
Yokohama F. Marinos 1 1 2
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2
Gamba Osaka 3
Kawasaki Frontale 3 2 5
Cerezo Osaka 1 3 4
Kawasaki Frontale 1 3 4
Gamba Osaka 3 2 5
Gamba Osaka 1 3 4
Vissel Kobe 1 0 1

Quarter-finals

First leg

Sanfrecce Hiroshima0–0Urawa Red Diamonds
EDION Stadium Hiroshima
Attendance: 6,718
Yokohama F. Marinos1–2Kashiwa Reysol
Nakamachi 65'
Leandro 63'
Kudo
74'
Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium
Attendance: 6,237
Referee: Junpei Iida
Cerezo Osaka1–3Kawasaki Frontale
Minamino 33'
Renato 71' (pen.
)
Yanmar Stadium Nagai
Attendance: 5,734
Vissel Kobe1–1Gamba Osaka
Marquinhos 64' Usami 11'
Attendance: 13,653

Second leg

Urawa Red Diamonds2–2Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Abe 34'
Makino 71'
Sato
48'
Attendance: 17,645

2-2 on aggregate. Sanfrecce Hiroshima won on away goals

Kashiwa Reysol3–1Yokohama F. Marinos
Eduardo
82'		 Nakazawa 23'
Minoru Tojo

Kashiwa Reysol won 5–2 on aggregate.

Kawasaki Frontale2–3Cerezo Osaka
Renato 35'
Ōkubo
58'
Hasegawa 37', 75'
Minamino
90+1'
Todoroki Athletics Stadium
Attendance: 11,168

Kawasaki Frontale won 5–4 on aggregate.

Gamba Osaka3–0Vissel Kobe
Abe 2'
Usami 28'
Kurata 83'
Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
Attendance: 11,294

Gamba Osaka won 4–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

First leg

Sanfrecce Hiroshima2–0Kashiwa Reysol
Sato
41', 50'
EDION Stadium Hiroshima
Attendance: 5,516
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Gamba Osaka3–1Kawasaki Frontale
Patric
49'		 90+2'
Tanaka
Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
Attendance: 5,482
Referee: Jumpei Iida

Second leg

Kashiwa Reysol2–1Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Leandro
38', 51'		 Ishihara 74'

Sanfrecce Hiroshima won 3–2 on aggregate.

Kawasaki Frontale3–2Gamba Osaka
Ōkubo 9'
Jeci 45+3'
Moriya 51'		 Abe 42', 45'
Todoroki Athletics Stadium
Attendance: 16,211
Referee: Minoru Tōjō

Gamba Osaka won 5-4 on aggregate.

Final

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima2–3Gamba Osaka
Sato
20', 35'
Patric 38', 54'
Omori
71'
Attendance: 38,126

Goalscorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Brazil Cristiano Ventforet Kofu 6
T2
Edu
 FC Tokyo 4
Japan Masato Kudo Kashiwa Reysol 4
Leandro
 Kashiwa Reysol 4
Slovenia Milivoje Novaković Shimizu S-Pulse 4
Japan Takashi Usami Gamba Osaka 4
T7 Japan Tadanari Lee Urawa Red Diamonds 3
Japan Musashi Suzuki Albirex Niigata 3
Junya Tanaka
 Kashiwa Reysol[2] 3
Japan Marcus Tulio Tanaka Nagoya Grampus 3

Updated to games played on 7 September 2014
Names of players in bold are still active.
Source: [1]

References

  1. ^ a b "2014 J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup - League Table". J.League Official Website. Archived from the original on 2014-05-24. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  2. Sporting Clube de Portugal
    after the group stage.

See also

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