Only the top two teams from the Emperor's Cup J1 will participate in the event Corona influence April 23 22:21
The Japan Football Association has announced a major revision of the tournament system for this season's Emperor's Cup = All Japan Championship, such that only the top two teams of J1 will participate from the J League where the official game will be interrupted due to the influence of the new coronavirus Did.
The Emperor's Cup, which competes for the best soccer in Japan, was the 100th turning point this season, but due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, measures such as changing the first round of each J1 team from the second round to the fourth round have been taken. It was taken.
Against this backdrop, the Japan Football Association announced a major review of the tournament system on the night of the 23rd, taking into consideration the situation that the official game of the J League has been suspended for a long time.
Specifically, we will limit the number of participating teams from the J.League to only the two teams with the highest J1 results, and reduce the participating teams, including prefecture representatives, from 88 to 50.
The opening season will be from May to September, and the two J1 teams will start from the semifinals on December 27th, and the finals will be held on the first day of next year.
In addition, the winning team of the Emperor's Cup will be given the right to participate in the ACL = Asian Champions League for the next season, but if two teams other than J1 win the championship, they will not have the Asian Football Federation club license, so J1 It means that you can be transferred to one of the two teams.
“There was an opinion that it would be appropriate for the 100th tournament to look like this,” said Kiyotaka Suhara, managing director of the Japan Football Association, but in the end it was decided that digesting the J. League schedule was important. I was talking.