The 97th Emperor's Cup (第97回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会) was the 2017 edition of the annual Japanese national cup tournament, which began on 22 April 2017 and ended with the finals on 1 January 2018.

[1] Cerezo Osaka won the tournament for the first time as a J.League club.

It had won the cup 43 years ago, in 1974 when the club was playing for Japan Soccer League as Yanmar Diesel.

As a result of this win, Cerezo automatically qualified to the group stage of the 2018 AFC Champions League.

Should the home team's stadium not fulfill requirements or the playing team is involved in 2017 AFC Champions League, organizers may assign other stadium instead.