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2015 Suruga Bank Championship

Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita, Japan hosted the match
Gamba Osaka River Plate 0 3
Date	11 August 2015
Venue	Osaka Expo '70 Stadium, Suita
Referee	Tan Hai (China)
Attendance	12,722
Weather	Clear 29.7 °C (85.5 °F) 58% humidity
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The 2015 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2015; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2015) was the eighth edition of the Suruga Bank Championship, the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of Japan, CONMEBOL, the football governing body of South America, and J. League, the professional football league of Japan, between the winners of the previous season's J. League Cup and Copa Sudamericana.

The match was contested between Japanese team Gamba Osaka, the 2014 J. League Cup winners, and Argentine team River Plate, the 2014 Copa Sudamericana winners. It was hosted by Gamba Osaka at the Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita on 11 August 2015.

River Plate won the match 3–0 to win their third international club title in 2015, after the 2015 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2015 Copa Libertadores (where they played in the finals less than a week before), and also became the first South American team to win this competition since 2009.

Teams

Team	Association / Confederation	Qualification	Previous appearances
Gamba Osaka	Japan Football Association	2014 J. League Cup winners	1 (2008)
River Plate	CONMEBOL	2014 Copa Sudamericana winners	None

Format

The Suruga Bank Championship was played as a single match, with the J. League Cup winner hosting the match. If the score was tied at the end of regulation, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played). A maximum of seven substitutions could be made during the match.

Match

Gamba Osaka	0–3	River Plate
	Report (JFA) Report (J. League) Report (CONMEBOL)	Sánchez 8' (pen.) Mercado 31' Martínez 61'

Gamba Osaka

River Plate

GK 18 Yōsuke Fujigaya DF 6 Kim Jung-ya  41' DF 8 Keisuke Iwashita  44' DF 15 Yasuyuki Konno DF 22 Oh Jae-suk  83' MF 7 Yasuhito Endō (c) MF 17 Tomokazu Myojin  46' MF 19 Kotaro Omori  55' MF 21 Yōsuke Ideguchi FW 9 Lins  64' FW 29 Patric  71' Substitutes: GK 16 Ken Tajiri DF 3 Takaharu Nishino DF 4 Hiroki Fujiharu  46' MF 10 Takahiro Futagawa  55' MF 11 Shu Kurata  57'  41' MF 13 Hiroyuki Abe  64' FW 20 Shun Nagasawa FW 24 Shingo Akamine  71' FW 30 Sou Hirao  83' Manager: Kenta Hasegawa

GK 1 Marcelo Barovero (c) DF 25 Gabriel Mercado DF 2 Jonathan Maidana DF 6 Ramiro Funes Mori DF 21 Leonel Vangioni MF 8 Carlos Sánchez  78' MF 23 Leonardo Ponzio  52' MF 5 Matías Kranevitter MF 16 Nicolás Bertolo  52' FW 22 Sebastián Driussi  52' FW 29 Javier Saviola  64' Substitutes: GK 26 Julio Chiarini DF 3 Éder Álvarez Balanta MF 18 Camilo Mayada  78' MF 14 Augusto Solari MF 15 Leonardo Pisculichi  52' MF 27 Lucho González  64' MF 10 Gonzalo Martínez  52' FW 17 Lucas Boyé FW 19 Tabaré Viúdez  52' Manager: Marcelo Gallardo

References

1. 2015年8月11日（火）万博記念競技場で開催決定　スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2015OSAKA　Jリーグヤマザキナビスコカップ/コパ・トタル・スダメリカーナ　王者決定戦 (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 16 December 2014.
2. "Copa Suruga Bank: River Plate derrotó 3 a 0 al Gamba Osaka y es el nuevo campeón" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 11 August 2015.

External links

• スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2015, Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
• スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2015OSAKA, J. League (in Japanese)
• Copa Suruga Bank, CONMEBOL.com (in Spanish)

• Suruga Bank Championship
• 2015 in Japanese football
• 2015 in South American football
• Gamba Osaka matches
• Club Atlético River Plate matches
• 2015 in Argentine football
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