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.
The match was contested between Japanese team Gamba Osaka, the 2014 J.
[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] The Suruga Bank Championship was played as a single match, with the J.
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).