2012 J.League Cup
Football tournament season
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The 2012 J.League Cup, also known as the 2012 J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup for sponsoring purposes, was the 37th edition of the most prestigious Japanese soccer league cup tournament and the 20th edition under the current J.League Cup format.
| Yamazaki Nabisco Cup | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Country | Japan |
| Teams | 18 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Kashima Antlers (5th title) |
| Runners-up | Shimizu S-Pulse |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 55 |
| Goals scored | 170 (3.09 per match) |
| Top goal scorer | Yuya Osako (Kashima Antlers) 7 goals |
Kashima Antlers became the winners for two straight years and qualify for the 2013 Suruga Bank Championship.
Format
Teams from the J.League Division 1 will take part in the tournament. FC Tokyo, Gamba Osaka, Kashiwa Reysol and Nagoya Grampus were given a bye to the quarter-finals due to qualification in the 2012 AFC Champions League. The remaining 14 teams started from the group stage, where they were divided into two groups of seven. The group winners and the runners-up of each group qualified for the quarter-final along with the four teams which qualified for the AFC Champions League.
Group stage
Standings
Group A
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Group B
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Results
Group A
| Sagan Tosu | 2–1 | Kawasaki Frontale |
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Okada  53'Noda 65' |
Report[link removed] | 78' Yajima |
| Júbilo Iwata | 2–1 | Cerezo Osaka |
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| Matsuura 59' Maeda 88' |
Report[link removed] | 38' Branquinho |
| Vegalta Sendai | 2–0 | Sagan Tosu |
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| Matsushita 51' Kakuda 62' |
Report[link removed] |
| Júbilo Iwata | 4–3 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
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| Maeda 7' Chiyotanda 57'Matsuura 77'Yamada 82' |
Report[link removed] | 34' Kojima 45+1' (o.g.) Rodrigo Souto 79' Takahashi |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 1–1 | Kawasaki Frontale |
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| Sato 85' |
Report[link removed] | 58' Jeci |
| Kawasaki Frontale | 3–1 | Vegalta Sendai |
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| Tasaka 45+1' Kobayashi 45+3', 57' |
Report[link removed] | 90' Muto |
| Júbilo Iwata | 1–0 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
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| Yamada 85' |
Report[link removed] |
| Urawa Red Diamonds | 1–4 | Cerezo Osaka |
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| Yajima 42' |
Report[link removed] | 11' Kiyotake 45' Fujimoto 49' Branquinho 81' Bando |
| Kawasaki Frontale | 0–3 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
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| Report[link removed] | 32' Kashiwagi 57', 82' Ugajin |
| Cerezo Osaka | 2–1 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
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| Branquinho 27' Kim 90+5' |
Report[link removed] | 30' Sato |
| Sagan Tosu | 3–2 | Júbilo Iwata |
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| Inuzuka 12', 65' Hayasaka 62' |
Report[link removed] | 52' Matsuoka 88' Yamada |
| Cerezo Osaka | 3–2 | Kawasaki Frontale |
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| Kempes 47' Kakitani 58', 86' |
Summary | Kusukami 30' Renatinho 68' |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 1–3 | Vegalta Sendai |
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| Shimizu 24' |
Summary | Nakahara 56', 76' Wilson 65' |
| Sagan Tosu | 2–1 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
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| Toyoda 52' Mizunuma 80' |
Report | Márcio Richardes 77' |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 5–1 | Sagan Tosu |
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| Koji Morisaki 45+3', 90' Satō 55' (pen.) Ishihara 78', 82' |
Summary | Mizunuma 63' |
| Vegalta Sendai | 4–0 | Júbilo Iwata |
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| Ota 23' Wilson 56' Akamine 69' Watanabe 80' |
Summary |
| Urawa Red Diamonds | 3–0 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
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| Despotović 43' Noda 62' Yajima 80' |
Summary |
| Cerezo Osaka | 5–0 | Sagan Tosu |
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| Ogihara 24' Kim Bo-Kyung 45+4' (pen.) Kakitani 55', 71' Fujimoto 90' |
Summary |
Group B
| Consadole Sapporo | 0–1 | Albirex Niigata |
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| Report[link removed] | 38' Mineiro |
| Kashima Antlers | 2–0 | Vissel Kobe |
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| Osako 20' Endo 45+1' |
Report[link removed] |
| Omiya Ardija | 1–1 | Yokohama F. Marinos |
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| Carlinhos 15' |
Report[link removed] | 84' Saitō |
| Kashima Antlers | 1–0 | Omiya Ardija |
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| Koroki 31' |
Report[link removed] |
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 1–0 | Albirex Niigata |
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| Kobayashi 16' |
Report[link removed] |
| Yokohama F. Marinos | 1–2 | Consadole Sapporo |
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| Matsumoto 68' |
Report[link removed] | 6' Oshima 45+2' Sakaki |
| Consadole Sapporo | 1–2 | Kashima Antlers |
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| Sakaki 16' |
Report[link removed] | 85' Juninho 90+4' Okamoto |
| Albirex Niigata | 1–0 | Vissel Kobe |
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| Hirai 27' |
Report[link removed] |
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 1–0 | Yokohama F. Marinos |
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| Brosque 76' |
Report[link removed] |
| Omiya Ardija | 1–1 | Consadole Sapporo |
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| Kim 53' |
Report[link removed] | 88' Maeda |
| Vissel Kobe | 1–2 | Shimizu S-Pulse |
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| Matsumura 64' |
Report[link removed] | 55' Kobayashi 83' Takagi |
| Yokohama F. Marinos | 3–2 | Kashima Antlers |
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| Hyodo 36' Saitō 83'Oguro 86' |
Report[link removed] | 58' Endo 68' Juninho |
| Consadole Sapporo | 0–4 | Shimizu S-Pulse |
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| Summary | Kawai 2' Lee Ki-Je 5' Ishige 57' Sugiyama 78' |
| Omiya Ardija | 1–0 | Vissel Kobe |
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| Aoki 31' |
Summary | Bae Chun-Suk  70' |
Attendance: 4,204
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 3–1 | Omiya Ardija |
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| Hiraoka 41' Omae 72' (pen.) Shirasaki 88' |
Summary | Hasegawa 36' Fukaya 70' |
| Vissel Kobe | 2–2 | Consadole Sapporo |
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| Ōkubo 12', 21' |
Summary | Sakai 35' Okamoto 38' |
| Kashima Antlers | 2–1 | Shimizu S-Pulse |
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| Osako 75', 90' (pen.) |
Summary | Ito 14' |
| Albirex Niigata | 4–3 | Omiya Ardija |
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| Kogure 62' Hirai 73' Suzuki 90', 90+4' |
Summary | Shimizu 15', 49' Watanabe 40' |
| Vissel Kobe | 3–2 | Yokohama F. Marinos |
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| Komoto 9', 87' Morioka 40' |
Summary | Ono 37' Kanai 80' |
Knock-out stage
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||||||
| Nagoya Grampus | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 0 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| FC Tokyo | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| FC Tokyo | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Vegalta Sendai | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
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| Kashiwa Reysol | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Gamba Osaka | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Kashiwa Reysol | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Kashima Antlers | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Cerezo Osaka | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Kashima Antlers | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Quarter-finals
First leg
| Kashima Antlers | 2–1 | Cerezo Osaka |
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| Iwamasa 22' Koroki 25' |
Kakitani 33' |
| Gamba Osaka | 1–3 | Kashiwa Reysol |
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| Niwa 83' |
Kudo 47' Leandro Domingues 76', 90+5' |
Second leg
| Kashiwa Reysol | 2–1 | Gamba Osaka |
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| Leandro Domingues 17' Kudo 60' |
Sato 30' |
| Cerezo Osaka | 0–3 | Kashima Antlers |
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| Dutra 28' Koroki 63'Shibasaki 70' |
| FC Tokyo | 2–0 | Vegalta Sendai |
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| Ishikawa 81' Watanabe 90+3' |
| Nagoya Grampus | 3–4 | Shimizu S-Pulse |
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| Tulio 54' Fujimoto 76', 87' |
Alex 42' Jymmy Franca 69'Senuma 88'Takagi 90+3' |
Semifinals
First leg
| Kashima Antlers | 3–2 | Kashiwa Reysol |
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| Osako 7', 69' Renato 36' |
(Report) | Barada 35' Leandro Domingues 62' |
Second leg
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 3–0 | FC Tokyo |
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| Omae 26', 63', 90+6' (pen.) |
Report |
| Kashiwa Reysol | 2–2 | Kashima Antlers |
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| Jorge Wagner 37' Neto Baiano 90+4' |
Report | Dutra 12' Osako 24' |
Final
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | Kashima Antlers |
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| Omae 77' (pen.) |
Report | Shibasaki 73' (pen.), 93' |
Goalscorers
| Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
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| 1 |  Yuya Osako |
Kashima Antlers | 7 |
| 2 | Genki Omae |
Shimizu S-Pulse | 5 |
| Yoichiro Kakitani |
Cerezo Osaka | 5 | |
| 4 |  Leandro Domingues |
Kashiwa Reysol | 4 |