2014 J.League Cup

2014 J. League Cup
Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
Country  Japan
Teams 18
Champions Gamba Osaka
Runners-up Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Matches played 55
Goals scored 169 (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 Osaka 2 – 0 Vissel Kobe
Lins  47'
A. Sato  53'		 Report
Attendance: 8,378
Referee: Hajime Matsuo
FC Tokyo 3 – 1 Kashima Antlers
Kawano  8'
Ota  10'
Mita  71'		 Report Motoyama  72'
Attendance: 10,353
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami
Shimizu S-Pulse 4 – 0 Vegalta Sendai
Nagasawa  21'
Omae  32'
Novaković  68', 74'		 Report
Attendance: 5,291
Vegalta Sendai 1 – 1 FC Tokyo
Kamata  62' Edu  77' (pen.)
Attendance: 7,094
Referee: Coote David
Kashima Antlers 3 – 1 Sagan Tosu
Davi  38'
Umebachi  83'
Luís Alberto  87'		 Hayasaka  22'
Attendance: 6,966
Referee: Yuichi Nishimura
Shimizu S-Pulse 1 – 0 Gamba Osaka
Nagasawa  33'
Attendance: 8,033
Referee: Minoru Tojo
Vegalta Sendai 1 – 2 Kashima Antlers
Muto  60' Nozawa  41'
Akasaki  83'
Attendance: 7,583
Referee: Takuya Maeda
Vissel Kobe 0 – 3 FC Tokyo
Muto  35'
Edu  48'
Hirayama  89'
Attendance: 6,455
Referee: Yudai Yamamoto
Sagan Tosu 0 – 2 Gamba Osaka
Omori  34'
Ogawa  73'
Attendance: 4,972
Referee: Yoshiro Imamura
FC Tokyo 2 – 3 Shimizu S-Pulse
Edu  18', 87' T. Takagi  8'
Omae  21'
Novaković  57'
Attendance: 8,749
Referee: Kazuyoshi Enomoto
Gamba Osaka 2 – 1 Kashima Antlers
Kurata  4'
Yonekura  80'		 Davi  72'
Attendance: 8,103
Referee: Yoshiro Imamura
Vissel Kobe 3 – 2 Sagan Tosu
Matsumura  42'
Marquinhos  54'
Morioka  90+3'		 Bando  89', 90+4'
Attendance: 3,850
Referee: Takuto Okabe
Shimizu S-Pulse 1 – 2 Vissel Kobe
Novaković  63' Jung Woo-young  33'
Iwanami  87'
Attendance: 11,815
Referee: Itaru Hirose
Sagan Tosu 2 – 0 Vegalta Sendai
Taniguchi  32' (pen.)
Kiyotake  57'
Attendance: 4,097
Referee: Futoshi Nakamura
Gamba Osaka 3 – 1 FC Tokyo
Usami  16', 53'
Nishino  68'		 Tokunaga  33'
Attendance: 12,818
Referee: Raczkowski Pawel
Vegalta Sendai 1 – 0 Gamba Osaka
Akamine  66'
Attendance: 7,965
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura
Kashima Antlers 0 – 3 Vissel Kobe
Sugiura  9'
Oya  57'
Hashimoto  75'
Attendance: 6,054
Referee: Hajime Matsuo
Sagan Tosu 2 – 0 Shimizu S-Pulse
Toyoda  39'
Mizunuma  76'
Attendance: 5,231
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Kashima Antlers 3 – 0 Shimizu S-Pulse
Doi  16'
Akasaki  26'
Endo  90+3'		 [Report]
Attendance: 10,667
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
FC Tokyo 0 – 2 Sagan Tosu
Yasuda  44'
Ikeda  57'
Attendance: 12,600
Vissel Kobe 2 – 1 Vegalta Sendai
Morioka  1'
Pedro Jùnior  90+3'		 Fujimura  37'
Attendance: 11,044
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami

Group B

Tokushima Vortis 1 – 3 Albirex Niigata
Douglas  87' Report Suzuki  16', 24'
Tanaka  73'
Attendance: 4,234
Nagoya Grampus 0 – 1 Ventforet Kofu
Report Cristiano  30'
Attendance: 4,772
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Kashiwa Reysol 2 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds
Tanaka  43' (pen.)
Watanabe  79'		 Report Umesaki  17'
Attendance: 9,585
Referee: Takuto Okabe
Ventforet Kofu 1 – 1 Kashiwa Reysol
Cristiano  84' Leandro Domingues  3'
Attendance: 6,174
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Albirex Niigata 3 – 3 Nagoya Grampus
Kim Jin-Su  17'
Tanaka  29'
Koizumi  89'		 Tulio  49'
Yada  51'
Ogawa  60'
Attendance: 8,505
Referee: Kazuyoshi Enomoto
Urawa Red Diamonds 2 – 1 Omiya Ardija
Lee  16'
Aoki  87'		 Hashimoto  30'
Attendance: 20,697
Referee: Tierney Paul
Omiya Ardija 1 – 1 Kashiwa Reysol
Hashimoto  37' Hashimoto  55'
Attendance: 5,082
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
Albirex Niigata 1 – 0 Ventforet Kofu
Suzuki  90+3'
Attendance: 7,765
Referee: Masaaki Iemoto
Urawa Red Diamonds 4 – 3 Tokushima 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 Ardija 0 – 2 Nagoya Grampus
Tanaka  61'
Yano  83'
Attendance: 4,681
Referee: Hiroyoshi Takayama
Kashiwa Reysol 3 – 0 Albirex Niigata
Tanaka  9'
Barada  34'
Watanabe  58'
Attendance: 5,517
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Tokushima Vortis 1 – 4 Ventforet Kofu
Osaki  25' (pen.) Mizuno  5', 45+3'
Cristiano  20'
Fukuda  90'
Attendance: 3,574
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Ventforet Kofu 3 – 0 Omiya Ardija
Cristiano  34', 44'
Kawamoto  90+2'
Attendance: 7,534
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura
Albirex Niigata 0 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds
Ono  88' (o.g.)
Attendance: 15,965
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Nagoya Grampus 2 – 1 Tokushima Vortis
Tamada  28'
Ogawa  47'		 Kim Jong-min  26'
Attendance: 11,579
Referee: Akihiko Ikeuchi
Ventforet Kofu 1 – 2 Urawa Red Diamonds
Cristiano  53' Nasu  8'
Umesaki  74'
Attendance: 9,074
Referee: Takuto Okabe
Nagoya Grampus 1 – 0 Kashiwa Reysol
Tulio  85'
Attendance: 5,941
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
Tokushima Vortis 1 – 1 Omiya Ardija
Hamada  52' Kikuchi  85'
Attendance: 3,956
Referee: Ryuji Sato
Urawa Red Diamonds 5 – 2 Nagoya Grampus
Kashiwagi  18'
Lee  40', 76'
Makino  60'
Sekiguchi  88'		 Nagai  23'
Matsuda  72'
Attendance: 33,837
Referee: Junpei Iida
Omiya Ardija 0 – 0 Albirex Niigata
Attendance: 7,902
Referee: Yosuke Kubota
Kashiwa Reysol 4 – 1 Tokushima Vortis
Tanaka  40' (pen.)
Kudo  45', 54'
Leandro  67'		 Osaki  83'
Attendance: 7,554
Referee: Kazuyoshi Enomoto

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  
  Gamba Osaka  
  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 Hiroshima 0 – 0 Urawa Red Diamonds
Attendance: 6,718
Yokohama F. Marinos 1 – 2 Kashiwa Reysol
Nakamachi  65' Leandro  63'
Kudo  74'
Attendance: 6,237
Referee: Junpei Iida
Cerezo Osaka 1 – 3 Kawasaki Frontale
Minamino  33' Oshima  7'
Moriya  67'
Renato  71' (pen.)
Attendance: 5,734
Vissel Kobe 1 – 1 Gamba Osaka
Marquinhos  64' Usami  11'
Attendance: 13,653
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami

Second leg

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

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

Kashiwa Reysol 3 – 1 Yokohama F. Marinos
Kudo  31'
Leandro  64'
Eduardo  82'		 Nakazawa  23'
Attendance: 8,087
Referee: Minoru Tojo

Kashiwa Reysol won 5–2 on aggregate.

Kawasaki Frontale 2 – 3 Cerezo Osaka
Renato  35'
Okubo  58'		 Hasegawa  37', 75'
Minamino  90+1'
Attendance: 11,168
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami

Kawasaki Frontale won 5–4 on aggregate.

Gamba Osaka 3 – 0 Vissel Kobe
Abe  2'
Usami  28'
Kurata 83'
Attendance: 11,294

Gamba Osaka won 4–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

First leg

Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 – 0 Kashiwa Reysol
Sato  41', 50'
Attendance: 5,516
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Gamba Osaka 3 – 1 Kawasaki Frontale
Yonekura  16'
Usami  28'
Patric  49'		  90+2' Tanaka
Attendance: 5,482
Referee: Jumpei Iida

Second leg

Kashiwa Reysol 2 - 1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Leandro  38', 51' Ishihara  74'
Attendance: 9,010
Referee: Masaaki Toma

Sanfrecce Hiroshima won 3–2 on aggregate.

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 2 Gamba Osaka
Ōkubo  9'
Jeci  45+3'
Moriya  51'		 Abe  42', 45'
Attendance: 16,211
Referee: Minoru Tōjō

Gamba Osaka won 5-4 on aggregate.

Final

Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 – 3 Gamba Osaka
Sato  20', 35' Patric  38', 54'
Omori  71'
Attendance: 38,126

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:

References

  1. 1 2 "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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