The 2020 Japanese Super Cup (known as Fuji Xerox Super Cup 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was the 27th Japanese Super Cup since its reestablishment, and the 35th overall. It was held on 8 February 2020 between the 2019 J1 League champions Yokohama F. Marinos and the 2019 Emperor's Cup winners Vissel Kobe. It took place at the Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Saitama.
This was Marinos's first Super Cup appearance since 2014, and was looking to end its bad record of five defeats in all of its previous appearances, stretching back to 1984. At the other hand, this was Vissel's first ever Super Cup appearance.
Drawn 3–3 until the end of 90 minutes, Vissel Kobe won the match on penalties, which saw nine consecutive penalties missed before Hotaru Yamaguchi ended the run and won Vissel its only second national trophy ever. The penalty also condemned Marinos to its sixth Super Cup defeat.
Match details
GK 1 Park Il-gyuRB 27 Ken MatsubaraCB 13 Thiago MartinsCB 44 Shinnosuke Hatanaka LB 5 Theerathon BunmathanCM 8 Takuya Kida (c) CM 6 Takahiro OgiharaRW 23 Teruhito NakagawaAM 9 Marcos Júnior LW 17 Erik CF 45 Ado Onaiwu Substitutes:GK 21 Yuji KajikawaDF 15 Makito Ito MF 7 Yūki ŌtsuMF 11 Keita Endo MF 33 Takuya Wada FW 18 Kota Mizunuma FW 30 Edigar Junio Manager: Ange Postecoglou GK 18 Hiroki IikuraCB 33 DanklerCB 25 Leo OsakiCB 4 Thomas VermaelenRM 22 Daigo Nishi CM 6 Sergi Samper CM 5 Hotaru YamaguchiLM 24 Gōtoku SakaiAM 8 Andrés Iniesta (c) CF 49 Douglas CF 11 Kyogo Furuhashi Substitutes:GK 1 Daiya MaekawaDF 3 Hirofumi WatanabeDF 10 So FujitaniMF 14 Takuya Yasui FW 9 Noriaki FujimotoFW 13 Keijiro Ogawa FW 21 Junya Tanaka Manager: Thorsten Fink
Assistant referees: Masahiro Horikoshi Naoya Okawa Fourth official: Akihiko Ikeuchi Video assistant referee: Jumpei Iida Toru SagaraMatch rules 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions.
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