2015 Suruga Bank Championship

The 2015 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2015; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2015) was the eighth edition of the Suruga Bank Championship, the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of Japan, CONMEBOL, the football governing body of South America, and J. League, the professional football league of Japan, between the winners of the previous season's J. League Cup and Copa Sudamericana.

2015 Suruga Bank Championship
Gamba Osaka River Plate
0 3
DateAugust 11, 2015
VenueOsaka Expo '70 Stadium, Suita
RefereeTan Hai (China)
Attendance12,722
WeatherClear
29.7 °C (85.5 °F)
58% humidity

The match was contested between Japanese team Gamba Osaka, the 2014 J. League Cup winners, and Argentine team River Plate, the 2014 Copa Sudamericana winners. It was hosted by Gamba Osaka at the Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita on August 11, 2015.[1]

River Plate won the match 3–0 to win their third international club title in 2015, after the 2015 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2015 Copa Libertadores (where they played in the finals less than a week before), and also became the first South American team to win this competition since 2009.[2]

Teams
Team Association / Confederation Qualification Previous appearances
Gamba Osaka Japan Football Association 2014 J. League Cup winners 1 (2008)
River Plate CONMEBOL 2014 Copa Sudamericana winners None

Format

The Suruga Bank Championship was played as a single match, with the J. League Cup winner hosting the match. If the score were tied at the end of regulation, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played). A maximum of seven substitutions may be made during the match.

Match
Gamba Osaka 0–3 River Plate
Report (JFA)
Report (J. League)
Report (CONMEBOL)		 Sánchez  8' (pen.)
Mercado  31'
Martínez  61'
Osaka Expo '70 Stadium, Suita
Attendance: 12,722
Referee: Tan Hai (China)
Gamba Osaka
River Plate
GK18 Yōsuke Fujigaya
DF6 Kim Jung-ya 41'
DF8 Keisuke Iwashita 44'
DF15 Yasuyuki Konno
DF22 Oh Jae-suk 83'
MF7 Yasuhito Endō (c)
MF17 Tomokazu Myojin 46'
MF19 Kotaro Omori 55'
MF21 Yōsuke Ideguchi
FW9 Lins 64'
FW29 Patric 71'
Substitutes:
GK16 Ken Tajiri
DF3 Takaharu Nishino
DF4 Hiroki Fujiharu 46'
MF10 Takahiro Futagawa 55'
MF11 Shu Kurata 57' 41'
MF13 Hiroyuki Abe 64'
FW20 Shun Nagasawa
FW24 Shingo Akamine 71'
FW30 Sou Hirao 83'
Manager:
Kenta Hasegawa
GK1 Marcelo Barovero (c)
DF25 Gabriel Mercado
DF2 Jonathan Maidana
DF6 Ramiro Funes Mori
DF21 Leonel Vangioni
MF8 Carlos Sánchez 78'
MF23 Leonardo Ponzio 52'
MF5 Matías Kranevitter
MF16 Nicolás Bertolo 52'
FW22 Sebastián Driussi 52'
FW29 Javier Saviola 64'
Substitutes:
GK26 Julio Chiarini
DF3 Éder Álvarez Balanta
MF18 Camilo Mayada 78'
MF14 Augusto Solari
MF15 Leonardo Pisculichi 52'
MF27 Lucho González 64'
MF10 Pity Martínez 52'
FW17 Lucas Boyé
FW19 Tabaré Viúdez 52'
Manager:
Marcelo Gallardo
Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita, Japan, hosted the match.

Assistant referees:
Mu Yuxin (China)
Huo Weiming (China)
Fourth official:
Hiroyuki Kimura (Japan)

References
  1. 2015年8月11日（火）万博記念競技場で開催決定　スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2015OSAKA　Jリーグヤマザキナビスコカップ/コパ・トタル・スダメリカーナ　王者決定戦 (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. December 16, 2014.
  2. "Copa Suruga Bank: River Plate derrotó 3 a 0 al Gamba Osaka y es el nuevo campeón" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. August 11, 2015.
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