2022 All Japan Senior Football Championship
The 58th All Japan Senior Football Championship, officially the 2022 All Japan Adults Football Tournament, and most known as the 2022 Shakaijin Cup, was the first edition of the annually contested single-elimination tournament since 2019. Both the 2020 and 2021 edition of the tournament was deemed cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The defending champions Tiamo Hirakata did not participate on this tournament. As it's restricted to non-league clubs, they can't enter the competition as Tiamo played the 2022 season in the Japan Football League, Japan's 4th-tier league. All the matches were streamed in the
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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, and on the .Holding method
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 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.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 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.