2017 J.League Cup


The 2017 J.League Cup, or officially the 2017 J.League YBC Levain, was the 42nd edition of the most prestigious Japanese football league cup tournament and the 25th edition under the current J.League Cup format.

Format

Teams from the J.League Division 1 will take part in the tournament. Teams that qualified for 2017 AFC Champions League group stage were given byes to the quarter-finals. The remaining teams started from the group stage, where they were divided into two groups of 7 or 8 teams. The group winners of each group were to qualify for the quarter-finals. The remained quarter-finalists were to be the winners of the play-off of the following two-legged ties:

Group A

Standings

Results

Group B

Standings

Results

Play-off stage

Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

First leg

----

Second leg

----

Final

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1
CrislanVegalta Sendai
5
2
Koki OgawaJúbilo Iwata
4
2
Junya TanakaVissel Kobe
4
2
Ricardo SantosCerezo Osaka
4