Date 15 August 2017 | Venue Saitama Stadium 2002 | |
Location Saitama Stadium 2002, Midori-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan | ||
The 2017 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2017; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2017) will be the tenth 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 will be contested between Japanese team Urawa Red Diamonds, the 2016 J.League Cup winners, and Brazilian team Chapecoense, the 2016 Copa Sudamericana winners. It will be hosted by Urawa Red Diamonds at the Saitama Stadium 2002 in Saitama on 15 August 2017.
Format
The Suruga Bank Championship is played as a single match, with the J. League Cup winners hosting the match. If tied at the end of regulation, extra time is not played, and the penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner. A maximum of seven substitutions may be made during the match.