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2015 Suruga Bank Championship
	Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita, Japan hosted the match
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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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

August 11, 2015

19:00 UTC+9

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

Osaka Expo '70 Stadium, Suita

Attendance: 12,722

Referee: Tan Hai (China)

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