The 2025 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (第104回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会; All Japan JFA 104th High School Soccer Tournament) will be the 104th edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan, being contested by the winning schools of the 48 prefectural qualifications. The defending champions are Maebashi Ikuei, who won the previous tournament beating in the final Chiba's RKU Kashiwa on penalty shoot-outs. As the norm, from the first round to the quarterfinals, matches have a duration of 80 minutes, split into two halves of 40 minutes each. The semi-finals and the final, however, are the only ones to match the standard match length of professional football, with the duration of 90 minutes, split into two halves of 45 minutes each. During the tournament, should a match be tied, it directly requires penalty shoot-outs, except for the final, where extra-time is played if the match remains tied on regulation time.
The entire tournament, including the prefectural tournament finals, will be streamed on SPORTS BULL and TVer free of charge for Japanese IP only. On TV, the semi-finals and the final will be aired nationally on NTV, while NNN, NNS and other non-NTV network stations showed select matches from the first round to the quarterfinals.
Calendar The tournament takes place in a 15-day span, with the tournament split into a total of six stages, with each round's dates announced by the JFA on 17 November. Round Date Matches Clubs First round 28–29 December 2025 16 Second round 31 December 2025 16 32 (16+16) → 16 Round of 16 2 January 2026 8 16 → 8 Quarter-finals 4 January 2026 4 8 → 4 Semi-finals 10 January 2026 2 4 → 2 Final 12 January 2026 1 2 → 1
Venues The tournament is held in the Kanto region, with the nine venues located on four prefectures.
+2024 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament venues Shinjuku, Tokyo Setagaya, Tokyo Kita, Tokyo MUFG Stadium Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka Capacity: 68,698 Capacity: 20,010 Capacity: 7,258 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Yokohama, Kanagawa Saitama, Saitama Uvance Todoroki Stadium by Fujitsu NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium Urawa Komaba Stadium Capacity: 26,232 Capacity: 15,454 Capacity: 21,500 Chiba, Chiba Kashiwa, Chiba Saitama, Saitama Fukuda Denshi Arena ZA Oripri Stadium NACK5 Stadium Omiya Capacity: 19,781 Capacity: 14,051 Capacity: 15,491
Qualifying rounds All the 47 prefectures holds knockout stage qualifiers for their respective high schools. Tokyo's qualifiers is the only to qualify two teams to the competition, as they have the largest amount of registered high schools affiliated with the All-Japan High School Soccer Federation. Teams playing at higher-level leagues earns a bye from the early stages of their respective qualifiers, getting automatically seeded in more advanced rounds, usually between the 3rd and 4th round of their qualifiers.
Most of the qualifiers started on October. Prefectures with a large amount of registered high schools, like Chiba and Kanagawa, started their qualifiers earlier than the rest.
Information about the broadcasts of the semi-finals and finals of each of the prefectural qualifiers was published by NTV.
Participating schools PrefectureHigh SchoolLeagueApps.Hokkaido Hokkai High School Hokkaido Prince League 2 14thAomori Aomori Yamada High School Premier League East 1 31stIwate Senshu Univ. Kitakami High School Tohoku Prince League 2 4thMiyagi Seiwa Gakuen High School Tohoku Prince League 2 6th Akita Akita Shogyo High School Akita Football League 4 47thYamagata Yamagata Meisei High School Yamagata Football League 4 2ndFukushima Shoshi High School Tohoku Prince League 2 16thIbaraki Kashima Gakuen High School Kanto Prince League D1 2 6thTochigi Yaita Chuo High School Kanto Prince League D1 2 15thGunma Maebashi Ikuei High School Premier League East 1 28thSaitama Shohei High School Premier League East 1 7thChiba Ryutsu Keizai Univ. Kashiwa High School Premier League East 1 9thTokyo Waseda Jitsugyo High SchoolTokyo T2 League 5 2ndHorikoshi High SchoolTokyo T1 League 4 6thKanagawa Nihon Univ. Fujisawa High School Kanagawa Football League 4 8thYamanashi Yamanashi Gakuin High SchoolKanto Prince League D1 2 11thNagano Ueda Nishi High School Nagano Football League 4 4thNiigata Teikyo Nagaoka High SchoolPremier League West 1 11thToyama Toyama Daiichi High School Hokushin'etsu Prince League D2 3 35thIshikawa Kanazawa Gakuin Univ. High School Hokushin'etsu Prince League D2 3 2ndFukui Fukui Shogyo High School Fukui Football League 4 3rdShizuoka Hamamatsu Kaisei-kan High School Tokai Prince League 2 3rdAichi Tokai Gakuen High School Aichi Football League 4 5thMie Uji-Yamada Shogyo High School Mie Football League 4 2ndGifu Teikyo Univ. Kani High School Tokai Prince League 2 12thShiga Minakuchi High School Shiga Football League 4 16thKyoto Kyoto Tachibana High SchoolKansai Prince League D1 2 12thOsaka Kokoku High School Kansai Prince League D1 2 2ndHyogo Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School Kansai Prince League D1 2 13thNara Nara Ikuei High School Nara Football League 4 18thWakayama Hatsushiba Hashimoto High School Wakayama Football League 4 18thTottori Yonago Kita High School Chugoku Prince League 2 21stShimane Taisha High School Shimane Football League 4 12thOkayama Okayama Gakugeikan High School Chugoku Prince League 2 8thHiroshima Hiroshima Minami High School Chugoku Prince League 2 18thYamaguchi Takagawa Gakuen High School Chugoku Prince League 2 31stKagawa Takamatsu Shogyo High School Kagawa Football League 4 25thTokushima Tokushima Municipal High School Shikoku Prince League 2 22ndEhime Nitta High School Ehime Football League 4 4thKochi Kochi High School Shikoku Prince League 2 20thFukuoka Higashi Fukuoka High School Premier League West 1 24thSaga Saga Higashi High School Kyushu Prince League D2 3 15thNagasaki Kyushu Bunka Gakuen High School Nagasaki Football League 4 1stKumamoto Ohzu High School Premier League West 1 22ndOita Oita Tsurusaki High School Oita Football League 4 8thMiyazaki Nissho Gakuen High School Kyushu Prince League D12 19thKagoshima Kamimura Gakuen High School Premier League West 1 12th Okinawa Naha Nishi High School Okinawa Football League 4 19th
Schedule All matches kick-offs are on JST +09:00.
First round
Second round
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
References
External links Official Schedule (JFA) About the Tournament (JFA)