2014 J.League Cup

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2014 J.League Cup
Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
Country Japan
Teams18
ChampionsGamba Osaka
Runners-upSanfrecce Hiroshima
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 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
Lins Goal 47'
A. Sato Goal 53'		 Report
Attendance: 8,378
Referee:
FC Tokyo3 – 1Kashima Antlers
Kawano Goal 8'
Ota Goal 10'
Mita Goal 71'		 Report Motoyama Goal 72'
Ajinomoto Stadium, Chōfu
Attendance: 10,353
Referee:
Shimizu S-Pulse4 – 0Vegalta Sendai
Nagasawa Goal 21'
Omae Goal 32'
Novaković Goal 68', 74'		 Report
Outsourcing Stadium Nihondaira, Shizuoka
Attendance: 5,291
Vegalta Sendai1 – 1FC Tokyo
Kamata Goal 62' Edu Goal 77' (pen.)
Attendance: 7,094
Referee: Coote David
Kashima Antlers3 – 1Sagan Tosu
Davi Goal 38'
Umebachi Goal 83'
Luís Alberto Goal 87'		 Hayasaka Goal 22'
Attendance: 6,966
Referee: Yuichi Nishimura
Shimizu S-Pulse1 – 0Gamba Osaka
Nagasawa Goal 33'
Attendance: 8,033
Referee: Minoru Tojo
Vegalta Sendai1 – 2Kashima Antlers
Muto Goal 60' Nozawa Goal 41'
Akasaki Goal 83'
Attendance: 7,583
Referee: Takuya Maeda
Vissel Kobe0 – 3FC Tokyo
Muto Goal 35'
Edu Goal 48'
Hirayama Goal 89'
Noevir Stadium Kobe, Hyōgo-ku, Kobe
Attendance: 6,455
Referee: Yudai Yamamoto
Sagan Tosu0 – 2Gamba Osaka
Omori Goal 34'
Ogawa Goal 73'
Best Amenity Stadium, Tosu
Attendance: 4,972
Referee: Yoshiro Imamura
FC Tokyo2 – 3Shimizu S-Pulse
Edu Goal 18', 87' T. Takagi Goal 8'
Omae Goal 21'
Novaković Goal 57'
Ajinomoto Stadium, Chofu, Tokyo
Attendance: 8,749
Referee: Kazuyoshi Enomoto
Gamba Osaka2 – 1Kashima Antlers
Kurata Goal 4'
Yonekura Goal 80'		 Davi Goal 72'
Attendance: 8,103
Referee: Yoshiro Imamura
Vissel Kobe3 – 2Sagan Tosu
Matsumura Goal 42'
Marquinhos Goal 54'
Morioka Goal 90+3'		 Bando Goal 89', 90+4'
Noevir Stadium Kobe, Hyōgo-ku, Kobe
Attendance: 3,850
Referee: Takuto Okabe
Shimizu S-Pulse1 – 2Vissel Kobe
Novaković Goal 63' Jung Woo-young Goal 33'
Iwanami Goal 87'
IAI Stadium Nihondaira, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka
Attendance: 11,815
Referee: Itaru Hirose
Sagan Tosu2 – 0Vegalta Sendai
Taniguchi Goal 32' (pen.)
Kiyotake Goal 57'
Saga Athletic Stadium, Saga
Attendance: 4,097
Referee: Futoshi Nakamura
Gamba Osaka3 – 1FC Tokyo
Usami Goal 16', 53'
Nishino Goal 68'		 Tokunaga Goal 33'
Attendance: 12,818
Referee: Raczkowski Pawel
Vegalta Sendai1 – 0Gamba Osaka
Akamine Goal 66'
Attendance: 7,965
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura
Kashima Antlers0 – 3Vissel Kobe
Sugiura Goal 9'
Oya Goal 57'
Hashimoto Goal 75'
Attendance: 6,054
Referee: Hajime Matsuo
Sagan Tosu2 – 0Shimizu S-Pulse
Toyoda Goal 39'
Mizunuma Goal 76'
Saga Athletic Stadium, Saga
Attendance: 5,231
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Kashima Antlers3 – 0Shimizu S-Pulse
Doi Goal 16'
Akasaki Goal 26'
Endo Goal 90+3'		 [Report]
Attendance: 10,667
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
FC Tokyo0 – 2Sagan Tosu
Yasuda Goal 44'
Ikeda Goal 57'
Ajinomoto Stadium, Chofu, Tokyo
Attendance: 12,600
Vissel Kobe2 – 1Vegalta Sendai
Morioka Goal 1'
Goal 90+3'		 Fujimura Goal 37'
Noevir Stadium Kobe, Hyōgo-ku, Kobe
Attendance: 11,044
Referee:

Group B[]

Tokushima Vortis1 – 3Albirex Niigata
Douglas Goal 87' Report Suzuki Goal 16', 24'
Tanaka Goal 73'
Attendance: 4,234
Nagoya Grampus0 – 1Ventforet Kofu
Report Cristiano Goal 30'
Mizuho Athletic Stadium, Nagoya
Attendance: 4,772
Referee:
Kashiwa Reysol2 – 1Urawa Red Diamonds
Tanaka Goal 43' (pen.)
Watanabe Goal 79'		 Report Umesaki Goal 17'
Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium, Kashiwa
Attendance: 9,585
Referee:
Ventforet Kofu1 – 1Kashiwa Reysol
Cristiano Goal 84' Leandro Domingues Goal 3'
Yamanashi Chuo Bank Stadium, Kōfu, Yamanashi
Attendance: 6,174
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Albirex Niigata3 – 3Nagoya Grampus
Kim Jin-Su Goal 17'
Tanaka Goal 29'
Koizumi Goal 89'		 Tulio Goal 49'
Yada Goal 51'
Ogawa Goal 60'
Attendance: 8,505
Referee: Kazuyoshi Enomoto
Urawa Red Diamonds2 – 1Omiya Ardija
Lee Goal 16'
Aoki Goal 87'		 Hashimoto Goal 30'
Attendance: 20,697
Referee: Tierney Paul
Omiya Ardija1 – 1Kashiwa Reysol
Hashimoto Goal 37' Hashimoto Goal 55'
Nack5 Stadium Omiya, Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
Attendance: 5,082
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
Albirex Niigata1 – 0Ventforet Kofu
Suzuki Goal 90+3'
Attendance: 7,765
Referee: Masaaki Iemoto
Urawa Red Diamonds4 – 3Tokushima Vortis
Sakano Goal 32'
Yajima Goal 50'
Kinoshita Goal 85' (o.g.)
Hamada Goal 90+1'		 Kubota Goal 19'
Kogure Goal 61'
Douglas Goal 68'
Attendance: 16,294
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami
Omiya Ardija0 – 2Nagoya Grampus
Tanaka Goal 61'
Yano Goal 83'
Nack5 Stadium Omiya, Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
Attendance: 4,681
Referee: Hiroyoshi Takayama
Kashiwa Reysol3 – 0Albirex Niigata
Tanaka Goal 9'
Barada Goal 34'
Watanabe Goal 58'
Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium, Kashiwa
Attendance: 5,517
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Tokushima Vortis1 – 4Ventforet Kofu
Osaki Goal 25' (pen.) Mizuno Goal 5', 45+3'
Cristiano Goal 20'
Fukuda Goal 90'
Pocarisweat Stadium, Naruto, Tokushima
Attendance: 3,574
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Ventforet Kofu3 – 0Omiya Ardija
Cristiano Goal 34', 44'
Kawamoto Goal 90+2'
Yamanashi Chuo Bank Stadium, Kōfu
Attendance: 7,534
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura
Albirex Niigata0 – 1Urawa Red Diamonds
Ono Goal 88' (o.g.)
Attendance: 15,965
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Nagoya Grampus2 – 1Tokushima Vortis
Tamada Goal 28'
Ogawa Goal 47'		 Kim Jong-min Goal 26'
Toyota Stadium, Toyota, Aichi
Attendance: 11,579
Referee: Akihiko Ikeuchi
Ventforet Kofu1 – 2Urawa Red Diamonds
Cristiano Goal 53' Nasu Goal 8'
Umesaki Goal 74'
Yamanashi Chuo Bank Stadium, Kōfu, Yamanashi
Attendance: 9,074
Referee: Takuto Okabe
Nagoya Grampus1 – 0Kashiwa Reysol
Tulio Goal 85'
Mizuho Athletic Stadium, Nagoya
Attendance: 5,941
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
Tokushima Vortis1 – 1Omiya Ardija
Hamada Goal 52' Kikuchi Goal 85'
Attendance: 3,956
Referee: Ryuji Sato
Urawa Red Diamonds5 – 2Nagoya Grampus
Kashiwagi Goal 18'
Lee Goal 40', 76'
Makino Goal 60'
Sekiguchi Goal 88'		 Nagai Goal 23'
Matsuda Goal 72'
Attendance: 33,837
Referee:
Omiya Ardija0 – 0Albirex Niigata
Nack5 Stadium Omiya, Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
Attendance: 7,902
Referee:
Kashiwa Reysol4 – 1Tokushima Vortis
Tanaka Goal 40' (pen.)
Kudo Goal 45', 54'
Leandro Goal 67'		 Osaki Goal 83'
Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium, Kashiwa
Attendance: 7,554
Referee:

Knock-out stage[]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

  Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                             
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 Goal 65' Leandro Goal 63'
Kudo Goal 74'
Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium
Attendance: 6,237
Referee:
Cerezo Osaka1 – 3Kawasaki Frontale
Minamino Goal 33' Oshima Goal 7'
Moriya Goal 67'
Renato Goal 71' (pen.)
Attendance: 5,734
Vissel Kobe1 – 1Gamba Osaka
Marquinhos Goal 64' Usami Goal 11'
Attendance: 13,653
Referee:

Second leg[]

Urawa Red Diamonds2 – 2Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Abe Goal 34'
Makino Goal 71'		 Notsuda Goal 39'
Sato Goal 48'
Attendance: 17,645
Referee:

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

Kashiwa Reysol3 – 1Yokohama F. Marinos
Kudo Goal 31'
Leandro Goal 64'
Eduardo Goal 82'		 Nakazawa Goal 23'
Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
Attendance: 8,087
Referee: Minoru Tojo

Kashiwa Reysol won 5–2 on aggregate.

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

Kawasaki Frontale won 5–4 on aggregate.

Gamba Osaka3 – 0Vissel Kobe
Abe Goal 2'
Usami Goal 28'
KurataGoal 83'
Attendance: 11,294

Gamba Osaka won 4–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals[]

First leg[]

Sanfrecce Hiroshima2 – 0Kashiwa Reysol
Sato Goal 41', 50'
EDION Stadium Hiroshima
Attendance: 5,516
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Gamba Osaka3 – 1Kawasaki Frontale
Yonekura Goal 16'
Usami Goal 28'
Patric Goal 49'		 Goal 90+2' Tanaka
Attendance: 5,482
Referee: Jumpei Iida

Second leg[]

Kashiwa Reysol2 – 1Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Leandro Goal 38', 51' Ishihara Goal 74'
Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
Attendance: 9,010
Referee: Masaaki Toma

Sanfrecce Hiroshima won 3–2 on aggregate.

Kawasaki Frontale3 – 2Gamba Osaka
Ōkubo Goal 9'
Jeci Goal 45+3'
Moriya Goal 51'		 Abe Goal 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 Goal 20', 35' Patric Goal 38', 54'
Omori Goal 71'
Attendance: 38,126
Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Goalscorers[]

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Brazil Cristiano Ventforet Kofu
6
T2 Brazil Edu FC Tokyo
4
Japan Masato Kudo Kashiwa Reysol
4
Brazil 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
Japan 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. ^ Transferred to Sporting Clube de Portugal after the group stage.

See also[]

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