Football J League Cup Tournament method changed drastically New Coronavirus June 5, 20:19
J-League Cup, one of the three major soccer titles in Japan, is a competition system that reduces the number of primary leagues that each team had to play twice in total due to the new coronavirus to one match Has changed significantly.
There are 19 teams in this season's J League Cup, including all J1 teams and Masaru Matsumoto, who has been demoted to J2.
However, due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the schedule has been postponed since the first match of the first league was held in February, and the J League announced a major change in the competition system on the 5th.
Specifically, each team was divided into four groups, and the primary league, which was supposed to play two times in a brute force, was reduced to one match each time, and quarter-finals and semi-finals were also home and away. I changed to one game from.
In addition, because Matsumoto Yamaga decided that the J2 schedule would be overcrowded, he decided not to participate in the tournament and not apply his own rules to start one or more players under the age of 21.
In addition, in the J.League, we have decided to increase the number of substitutes for players from 3 to 5 including the league game that will be resumed gradually from the end of this month.
The number of substitutions during a game is limited to 3 except for half time.
However, if the J League Cup becomes an extra game, the replacement frame will increase by one more person.
In addition, at J3, which will open on the 27th of this month, FC Tokyo's U-23 has declined to participate this season because it cannot secure a stadium due to the spread of infection.