The 2011 Suruga Bank Championship ( ja, スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2011; es, Copa Suruga Bank 2011) was the fourth edition of the

Suruga Bank Championship The J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship was an annual intercontinental football match held in Japan, contested by the reigning champions of the J.League Cup and the Copa Sudamericana. The tournament was previously officially called the ...

, the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of

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, and

CONMEBOL The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Suri ...

, the football governing body of

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, between the winners of the previous season's

J. League Cup The is a Japanese Association football, football (soccer) competition organized by J.League. It has been sponsored by Yamazaki Biscuits (YBC) of Yamazaki Baking (formerly Yamazaki Nabisco) since its inception in 1992. It is also known as the or ...

and

Copa Sudamericana The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, named as ''Copa Sudamericana'' (; pt, Copa Sul-Americana ), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 2002. It is the second-most prestigious club competition in South American ...

. It was contested by Japanese club

Júbilo Iwata is a professional Japanese association football team that currently play in the J2 League. The team name ''Júbilo'' means 'joy' in Spanish and Portuguese. The team's hometown is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium. For ...

, the 2010 J. League Cup champion, and Argentine club Independiente, the

2010 Copa Sudamericana The 2010 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes (officially the 2010 Copa Nissan Sudamericana de Clubes for sponsorship reasons) was the 9th edition of CONMEBOL's secondary international club tournament. The winner qualified for the 2011 Copa Libertadores, ...

champion. Júbilo Iwata won 4–2 in penalty shootout, after drawing 2–2 in the ninety minutes of play.Copa Suruga Bank 2011: Independiente no pudo festejar en Japón
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Qualified teams

Rules

The Suruga Bank Championship is played over one match, hosted by the winner of the J. League Cup. If the score is tied at the end of regulation, the winner is determined by a

penalty shootout The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...

(no extra time is played). A maximum of seven substitutions may be made during the match.Final de la Copa Suruga Bank 2011
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Match details

References

External links

Official webpage
J. League

CONMEBOL {{DEFAULTSORT:Suruga Bank Championship 2011 2011 in South American football 2011 2011 in Japanese football Club Atlético Independiente matches Júbilo Iwata matches Association football penalty shoot-outs