The 2016 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (All Japan JFA 95th High School Soccer Tournament (Japanese: 第95回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会) marked the 95th edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan.
Calendar Round Date Matches Teams First round 30–31 December 2016 16 Second round 2 January 2017 16 32 (16+16) → 16 Third round 3 January 2017 8 16 → 8 Quarter-finals 5 January 2017 4 8 → 4 Semi-finals 7 January 2017 2 4 → 2 Final 9 January 2017 1 2 → 1 Source:
Venues The tournament was played in four prefectures and nine stadiums, with six (two for each prefecture) located in Chiba, Kanagawa, and Tokyo Prefectures, and three located in Saitama. They are:
Tokyo – Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka, and Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium Saitama – Saitama Stadium 2002, Urawa Komaba Stadium and NACK5 Stadium Omiya Kanagawa – NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium and Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium Chiba – Fukuda Denshi Arena and Kashiwanoha Stadium
Participating clubs In parentheses: the amount of times each team qualified for the All Japan High School Tournament (appearance in the 2016 edition included) Hokkaido: Asahikawa Jitsugyo High School (5) Aomori: Aomori Yamada High School (22) Iwate: Tono High School (26) Akita: Akita Shogyo High School (42) Miyagi: Seiwa Gakuen High School (4) Yamagata: Yamagata Chuo High School (11) Fukushima: Shoshi High School (8) Ibaraki: Kashima Gakuen High School (8) Tochigi: Sano Nihon Univ. High School (8) Gunma: Maebashi Ikuei High School (20) Saitama: Shochi Fukaya High School (3) Chiba: Ichiritsu Funabashi High School (21) Tokyo A: Komazawa Univ. High School (3) Tokyo B: Kanto Daiichi High School (1) Kanagawa: Toko Gakuen High School (10) Niigata: Teikyo Nagaoka High School (5) Nagano: Sozo Gakuen High School (2) Yamanashi: Yamanashi Gakuin High School (5) Toyama: Toyama Daiichi High School (27) Ishikawa: Otori Gakuen High School (1) Fukui: Hokuriku High School (4) Gifu: Chukyo High School (1) Shizuoka: Fujieda Meisei High School (2) Aichi: Toho High School (5) Mie: Kaisei High School (1) Shiga: Yasu High School (10) Kyoto: Kyoto Tachibana High School (6) Osaka: Tokai Univ. Osaka Gyosei High School (5) Hyōgo: Takigawa Daini High School (19) Nara: Ichijo High School (7) Wakayama: Wakayama Kita High School (10) Tottori: Yonago Kita High School (12) Shimane: Rissho Univ. Shonan High School (15) Okayama: Okayama Gakugeikan High School (1) Hiroshima: Hiroshima Minami High School (13) Yamaguchi: Takagawa Gakuen High School (23) Tokushima: Tokushima Ichiritsu High School (15) Kagawa: Takamatsu Shogyo High School (22) Ehime: Matsuyama Kita High School (5) Kōchi: Meitoku Gijuku High School (7) Fukuoka: Higashi Fukuoka High School (18) Saga: Saga Higashi High School (9) Nagasaki: Nagasaki High School (4) Kumamoto: Luther Gakuin High School (4) Ōita: Oita High School (9) Miyazaki: Hosho High School (13) Kagoshima: Kagoshima Josei High School (7) Okinawa: Naha Nishi High School (15)
Schedule First round
Second round
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
GK 1 Riku HirosueDF 3 Arata KoyamaDF 4 Kyosuke HashimotoDF 5 KennedyEgbus MikuniDF 13 Shinichiro Osanai MF 6 Kakeru Suminaga (c) MF 7 Yuta GokeMF 8 Riku Saga MF 10 Issei TakahashiMF 14 Takaaki Sumikawa FW 11 Akito Narumi Substitutes:GK 12 Ayumu TsuboDF 2 Masato Kudo DF 15 Taiki AmagasaDF 19 Keiji KagiyamaDF 20 Takumi SatoMF 16 Shuto Hori MF 17 Yu SasakiMF 18 Riku Danzaki FW 9 Kai Sasaki Manager: Go Kuroda GK 1 Akira TsukidaDF 3 Ryotaro TsunodaDF 4 Riku MatsudaDF 15 Taiki WatanabeDF 19 Koki Gotoda MF 6 Koki Nagasawa MF 7 Ryo Otsuka (c)MF 9 Hayate TakazawaMF 25 Yu Tabei FW 10 Riku Iijima FW 24 Daichi HitomiSubstitutes:GK 12 Shun MatsumotoDF 2 Sho Oyama DF 4 Yuta AsagaDF 16 Ren KanedaMF 8 Ryo Tabei MF 11 Wataru Iwashita MF 14 Hayato ShiozawaMF 22 Renya YashiroFW 18 Takuya Baba Manager: Kosuke Yamada
Assistant referees: Tomohisa Gonda Yukitaka Kumagai Fourth official: Tomohiro TsukadaMatch rules 90 minutes. Extra-time of 10 minutes for each half if scores still level. Persisting a draw after extra-time, a penalty shoot-out would be held. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions.
Top scorers RankPlayerHigh SchoolGoals1 Akito NarumiAomori Yamada62 Issei TakahashiAomori Yamada53 Haruki KoyamaShochi Fukaya3 Shuji MatsuiTokai Gyosei Daiki MizotaTakagawa Gakuen Riku SagaAomori Yamada
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