The 2014 Suruga Bank Championship (; ) was the seventh 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.
The match was contested between Japanese team Kashiwa Reysol, the 2013 J. League Cup champion, and Argentine team Lanús, the 2013 Copa Sudamericana champion. It was hosted by Kashiwa Reysol at the Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium in Kashiwa on August 6, 2014.
For the fifth consecutive year, the match was won by the Japanese host team, as Kashiwa Reysol won 2–1 to earn their first Suruga Bank Championship.
Qualified teams TeamQualificationPrevious appearances Kashiwa Reysol2013 J. League Cup championNone Lanús2013 Copa Sudamericana championNone
Format The Suruga Bank Championship was played as a single match, with the J. League Cup champion hosting the match. If the score was tied at the end of regulation, the penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played). A maximum of seven substitutions may be made during the match.
Match details
GK 21 Takanori Sugeno DF 2 Masato Fujita DF 4 Daisuke Suzuki DF 5 Tatsuya Masushima DF 22 Wataru Hashimoto MF 17 Hiroki Akino MF 28 Ryoichi Kurisawa MF 7 Hidekazu Otani (c) MF 13 Kaoru Takayama FW 11 Leandro FW 9 Masato KudoSubstitutes: GK 1 Kazushige Kirihata DF 23 Hirofumi Watanabe DF 27 Kim Chang-soo MF 20 Akimi Barada MF 25 Yusuke Kobayashi MF 26 Tetsuro Ota FW 19 Yu KimuraManager: Nelsinho Baptista GK 1 Agustín Marchesín DF 4 Carlos Araujo DF 14 Gustavo Gómez DF 2 Diego Braghieri DF 6 Maximiliano Velázquez (c) MF 5 Diego González MF 15 Leandro Somoza MF 22 Jorge Ortiz MF 16 Víctor Ayala FW 10 Silvio Romero FW 9 Santiago SilvaSubstitutes: GK 12 Matías Ibáñez DF 24 Matías Martínez DF 3 Alejandro Silva MF 21 Nicolás Pasquini MF 11 Jorge Valdez Chamorro FW 23 Oscar Benítez FW 18 Lucas Melano Manager: Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Assistant referees: Yang Byoung-eun (South Korea) Yoon Kwang-yeol (South Korea) Fourth official: Hiroyuki Kimura (Japan)
References
External links スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2014, Japan Football Association スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ, J. League Copa Suruga Bank, CONMEBOL.com