The Japan Football Association has announced that it will hold the Emperor's Cup and All Japan Championship semi-finals and finals scheduled for mid-December without setting an upper limit on the number of spectators.
The Emperor's Cup, which decides the best soccer in Japan, will celebrate its 101st time, and the semi-finals will be held on December 12, with Urawa Reds and Cerezo Osaka at Saitama Stadium in Saitama City, and Kawasaki Frontale at Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium. Oita Trinita will play against each other.
Then, the winning teams will advance to the final held at the Tokyo National Stadium on the 19th.
The Japan Football Association, which sponsors the event, has set an upper limit on the number of spectators in the games up to October of the Emperor's Cup due to the influence of the new coronavirus, but there is no upper limit for the three games including the semi-finals and finals. , Announced that it will be held with a maximum capacity of 100% of the stadium's capacity.
According to the Japan Football Association, the "Infection Control and Safety Plan" was formulated based on the government's basic response policy, which includes specific measures to ease behavior restrictions, and approval was received from the local government where the stadium is located to remove the upper limit. It means that.
Of the three stadiums that will be the venues for the games, Saitama Stadium and the National Stadium have a capacity of about 60,000, and this number will be the maximum number of people who will visit the stadium.