The 2024 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (第103回全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会; All Japan JFA 103rd High School Soccer Tournament) will mark the 103rd edition of the referred annually contested cup for High Schools over Japan, to be contested by all 48 prefectural qualifications' winning schools.[1]
The defending champions are Aomori Yamada, who won the 2023 tournament by 3–1 win over underdogs Ohmi in the final.[2]
As usual, from the first round to the quarterfinals, the matches will have a duration of 80 minutes, split into two halves of 40 minutes each. The semi-finals and the final will have matches lasting 90 minutes, the standard match length on professional football. During the tournament, if a match should be tied, it will directly require penalty shoot-outs, except for the final, where overtime would be played if the match remains tied for 90 minutes. The semi-finals and the final will be broadcast on NTV.
The tournament will take place in a 17-day span, with the tournament split into a total of 6 stages. The draw to decide the tournament schedule and the match pairings will be done in November.
All the 47 prefectures holds knockout stage qualifiers for their respective high schools. Tokyo's qualifiers is the only to qualify two teams to the competition, as they have the largest amount of registered high schools affiliated with the All-Japan High School Soccer Federation. Teams playing at higher-level leagues earns a bye from the early stages of their respective qualifiers, getting automatically seeded in more advanced rounds, usually between the 3rd and 4th round of their qualifiers.
Most of the qualifiers starts on October. Prefectures with a large amount of registered high schools, like Chiba and Kanagawa, started their qualifiers earlier than the rest.[3]
