The 20th All Japan Youth (U-15) Futsal Championship is going to start for three-days on Saturday 10 January to Monday/Holiday, 12 January 2015 in Toyota City, Aichi to decide U-15 Futsal Champion in Japan. This is the playback of the previous event 19th championship before this year’s championship opens in the start of year 2015.

The previous championship held in Mie was participated by 16 teams across Japan, nine teams who won the regional qualifiers, six teams from the regions of bigger numbers of entry teams (Hokkaido 2, Kanto 1, Hokushinetsu 2, Tokai 1) and one team representing host prefecture of Mie. The first round was grouped into four groups consisting four teams each and group winners advanced to final round.

The last official match as a junior high school student for third year players. Every team was keen on playing many games as they can with buddies who had trainings together sweating out. There were refreshing exchange among the regions who had multiple entries from the region, cheering the rival team in the same region.

All the games in day 1 and day 2 were aggressive and exciting for every team trying to win the final round berth. Consadore Asahikawa U-15 (Hokkaido 2) who beat the defending champion Nagaoka JYFC, Brincar FC (Tokai 2/Aichi), FC Ikarashi Junior Youth (Hokushinetsu/Niigata), Malva Ibaraki FC advanced to the final round.

The first match of semi-final was Brincar FC against FC Ikarashi. FC Ikarashi, having conceded the opener, captain Sekiguhi Masahiro’s five goals helped Brincar FC winning 7-4 against FC Ikarashi. Continually the second game was Consadore Asahikawa against Malva Ibaraki. Malva Ibaraki dominated the game by 40 shots but Consadore Sapporo turned few chances to goals for making a come from behind victory 2-1.

In the awaited final match, Consadore Asahikawa scored the opener but aggressively offensive FC Ikarashi had an equalizer before the half time. In the second half, FC Ikarashi started with go-ahead goal but Consadore Asahikawa Yoshida Yuki’s shoot levelling the game again. In the last part of the game, FC Ikarashi Sekiguchi concluded the game with his hat trick, pushing the deflected ball of his teammate’s shoot. FC Ikarashi who won the final 3-2 clinched the title for the first time.

“Let’s win the championship and toss our head coach in the air” was the buzzword of players, said Sekiguchi. Three day championship was drawn to an end after FC Ikarashi players tossing up their head coach for three times.

The 20th All Japan Youth (U-15) Futsal Championship open on 10 January

Sat. 10 January - Mon. 12 January 2015
Skyhall Toyota (Toyota City/Aichi)

More information on the championship (Japanese version only)