2022 All Japan Senior Football Championship

The championship was organized by Japan Football Association, in collaboration with the All-Japan Football Federation and the city of Shibushi. The collaboration with the Kagoshima's city of Shibushi happened due to the 2023 National Sports Conference. The 2022 All Japan Senior Football Championship served as a rehearsal for the National Sports Conference, which was also held at Shibushi. The venues hosting the tournament was entirely centered on the Shibushi Sports Park, and on the Shiokaze Park.

Every match at the tournament were played under the unusual method of 40 minutes per half, instead of the usual 45, with every match being played under 80 minutes of action in total, excluding added times. The match would go directly to a penalty shoot-out, if the winner could not be decided after the full-time whistle. Up to five substitutions in three or less substitution breaks (excluding half-time) were allowed at the tournament, as per FIFA recommendation. Both methods are applied for the tournament due to the tiny 1-day interval between the matches, which could be even more tiring to the players in question if the matches had extra-time.^[2]

The top 3threeteams would qualify to play on the 2022 edition of the Japanese Regional Champions League, which serves as Japan Football League's play-off tournament. Since eight of the nine 2022 regional champions were already participating (Tōkai champions FC Kariya did not qualify) at the Shakaijin, and since clubs belonging to leagues below the main regional league tiers were not eligible for the Champions League, the top three teams did not necessarily mean the semi-finalists.

Regional champions who were at the time already qualified for the Regional Champions League are denoted in bold. Lower-tier clubs who are not eligible to play in the Regional Champions League are denoted in italics.

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The tournament schedule was officially released on 29 August 2022.^[3] The kick-off times are displayed in accordance with the Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

As BTOP Thank Kuriyama is already qualified to the 2022 Regional Champions League as Hokkaido champions, the other three semi-finalists have qualified for the Champions League.

BRIOBECCA GK 16 Koichi Sakuma DF 4 Yuya Fujioka DF 9 Ryosuke Iizawa  68' DF 23 Shuji Uenaka DF 26 Tetta Kasashima MF 5 Yuto Takechi  59' MF 14 Yo Uematsu (c)  42'  75' MF 27 Kanji Hirano  68' MF 29 Hiroki Ishihara FW 11 Koyu Murakami FW 30 Shotaro Inoue Substitutes: GK 25 Yusuke Taniguchi DF 13 Ryuto Koizumi  68' DF 20 Daisuke Kato  75' MF 18 Ryo Togashi  68' MF 19 Tsubasa Nihei MF 32 Taku Ikawa  59' FW 24 Yohei Hayashi Manager: Kei Shibata

BTOP GK 30 Shun Sato DF 2 Kakeru Kumagawa DF 5 Rai Anda DF 11 Kenta Ito DF 13 Kodai Enomoto MF 7 Toshiya Motozuka (c) MF 16 Yuichiro Edamoto  61' MF 34 Kotaro Kawasato FW 21 Kutsuwada Kisa  78' FW 22 Shuto Kammera FW 77 Masahide Hiraoka Substitutes: GK 36 Masaya Tawarafuji DF 3 Asahi Ishiwata DF 4 Kento Mitsuo MF 6 Shunta Shimura MF 19 Ryosuke Ochi  61' MF 23 Takuya Iwade FW 24 Toyoki Yoshiyuki  78' Manager: Yuta Sugiyama

Assistant referees: Yuki Tanabe Kazuki Nakamura Fourth official: Ryo Ogawa

Match rules 80 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions.