2024 Emperor's Cup prefectural qualifiers

The 2024 Emperor's Cup prefectural qualifiers were a series of tournaments whose each prefectural champions granted qualification for the 2024 Emperor's Cup, the main football cup competition in Japan. It is the 28th time that (amateur) teams qualify for the Emperor's Cup via prefectural tournaments, as before the 1996 Emperor's Cup, the lower ranked teams in the competition qualified to it via regional qualification. On 2024, the competition continues to be restricted to Type 1 teams (composed mainly of adults), with Type 2 teams (composed of high school undergraduates) blocked from participating.

J1 League and J2 League clubs did not participate in the prefectural tournaments as usual, as its clubs were automatically qualified to the Cup.

Usually, the format of the Emperor's Cup opens 48 berths for amateur clubs, with all of them being assigned into the first round of the competition. Alongside the other 47 prefectural champions, JFA annually assigns a specially-designated club to complete 48 amateur teams into the round. The specially-designated clubs automatically skip the qualification stage and then, does not participate in their respective prefectural tournaments. On 2024, an exception was made due to the exclusion of Urawa Red Diamonds, who would automatically qualify into the second round of the Emperor's Cup. An extra amateur team, Meiji University, was then, given a direct entry as a second specially-designated club into the first round, pushing Honda FC to the second round.

Customarily, university teams are allowed to participate in each tournament. Some university clubs have two or more affiliated teams participating, with its second-and-beyond teams composed of present and past students in that university. The first-team of each universities uses its formal name to distinguish themselves from its affiliated teams, which is most of the time done by attaching abbreviations (such as "FC", "AFC" or "SC") to the names of their respective universities.

Prefectural champions
All the 47 prefectural tournaments champions that qualified for the 2024 Emperor's Cup.

Prefectural tournaments
Teams playing in higher tiers usually receives a bye from the early stages of each tournament, with some automatically seeded to the prefectural final, as its the case with many J3 League teams, as the only professional clubs eligible to participate. Some prefectures holds qualification to their prefectural tournaments, splitting "social representatives", "university representatives" into the qualifiers. It is more prone to occur when two or more clubs from the same prefecture are members of the J3 League and/or Japan Football League, as both leagues' clubs are exempt to be treated as a "social representative", which can be described as a term used to describe amateur clubs whose players are, or were affiliated unanimously with the same university in common.

Hokkaido

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Aomori

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Iwate

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Akita

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Miyagi

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Yamagata

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Fukushima

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Ibaraki

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Tochigi

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Gunma

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Saitama

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Chiba

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Tokyo

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Kanagawa

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Yamanashi

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Niigata

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Nagano

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Toyama

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Fukui

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Shizuoka

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Aichi

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Gifu

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Mie

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Shiga

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Kyoto

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Osaka

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Hyogo

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Nara

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Wakayama

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Tottori

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Shimane

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Okayama

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Hiroshima

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Yamaguchi

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Kagawa

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Tokushima

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Ehime

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Kochi

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Fukuoka

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Saga

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Nagasaki

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Kumamoto

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Oita

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Miyazaki

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Kagoshima

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Okinawa

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