2012 J.League Cup

The 2012 J.League Cup, also known as the 2012 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.

2012 J.League Cup
Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
Country Japan
Teams18
ChampionsKashima Antlers
Runners-upShimizu S-Pulse
Matches played55
Goals scored170 (3.09 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Yuya Osako (Kashima Antlers) 7 goals
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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
Urawa Red Diamonds1 – 0Vegalta Sendai
Nagata  49' Report
Attendance: 23,076
Referee: Okabe
Sagan Tosu2 – 1Kawasaki Frontale
Okada  53'
Noda  65'		 Report  78' Yajima
Attendance: 4,613
Referee: Tojo
Júbilo Iwata2 – 1Cerezo Osaka
Matsuura  59'
Maeda  88'		 Report  38' Branquinho
Attendance: 8,036
Referee: Kimura
Vegalta Sendai2 – 0Sagan Tosu
Matsushita  51'
Kakuda  62'		 Report
Attendance: 7,236
Referee: Yoshida
Júbilo Iwata4 – 3Urawa Red Diamonds
Maeda  7'
Chiyotanda  57'
Matsuura  77'
Yamada  82'		 Report  34' Kojima
 45+1' (o.g.) Rodrigo Souto
 79' Takahashi
Attendance: 7,824
Referee: Ogiya
Sanfrecce Hiroshima1 – 1Kawasaki Frontale
Sato  85' Report  58' Jeci
Attendance: 6,413
Referee: Iida
Kawasaki Frontale3 – 1Vegalta Sendai
Tasaka  45+1'
Kobayashi  45+3', 57'		 Report  90' Muto
Attendance: 8,186
Referee: Matsuo
Júbilo Iwata1 – 0Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Yamada  85' Report
Attendance: 6,372
Referee: Tojo
Urawa Red Diamonds1 – 4Cerezo Osaka
Yajima  42' Report  11' Kiyotake
 45' Fujimoto
 49' Branquinho
 81' Bando
Attendance: 16,533
Referee: Sato
Kawasaki Frontale0 – 3Urawa Red Diamonds
Report  32' Kashiwagi
 57', 82' Ugajin
Attendance: 13,608
Referee: Murakami
Cerezo Osaka2 – 1Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Branquinho  27'
Kim  90+5'		 Report  30' Sato
Attendance: 6,397
Referee: Okabe
Sagan Tosu3 – 2Júbilo Iwata
Inuzuka  12', 65'
Hayasaka  62'		 Report  52' Matsuoka
 88' Yamada
Attendance: 4,642
Referee: Sato
Cerezo Osaka3 – 2Kawasaki Frontale
Kempes  47'
Kakitani  58', 86'		 Summary Kusukami  30'
Renatinho  68'
Attendance: 6,855
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Sanfrecce Hiroshima1 – 3Vegalta Sendai
Shimizu  24' Summary Nakahara  56' (76)
Wilson  65'
Attendance: 7,234
Referee: Minoru Tojo
Sagan Tosu2 – 1Urawa Red Diamonds
Toyoda  52'
Mizunuma  80'		 [ Report]
Summary		 Márcio Richardes  77'
Attendance: 7,284
Referee: Kimura
Vegalta Sendai1 – 0Cerezo Osaka
Ryang Yong-Gi  63' Summary
Attendance: 8,638
Referee: Yoshiro Imamura
Kawasaki Frontale0 – 1Júbilo Iwata
Summary Yamazaki  25'
Attendance: 7,970
Referee: Jumpei Iida
Sanfrecce Hiroshima5 – 1Sagan Tosu
Koji Morisaki  45+3', 90'
Satō  55' (pen.)
Ishihara  78', 82'		 [ Report]
Summary		 Mizunuma  63'
Attendance: 10,132
Referee: Murakami
Vegalta Sendai4 – 0Júbilo Iwata
Ota  23'
Wilson  56'
Akamine  69'
Watanabe  80'		 Summary
Attendance: 9,865
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura
Urawa Red Diamonds3 – 0Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Despotović  43'
Noda  62'
Yajima  80'		 Summary
Attendance: 14,022
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima
Cerezo Osaka5 – 0Sagan Tosu
Ogihara  24'
Kim Bo-Kyung  45+4' (pen.)
Kakitani  55', 71'
Fujimoto  90'		 Summary
Attendance: 7,280
Referee: Minoru Tojo

Group B
Consadole Sapporo0 – 1Albirex Niigata
Report  38' Mineiro
Attendance: 7,487
Referee: Nakamura
Kashima Antlers2 – 0Vissel Kobe
Osako  20'
Endo  45+1'		 Report
Attendance: 11,379
Referee: Matsuo
Omiya Ardija1 – 1Yokohama F. Marinos
Carlinhos  15' Report  84' Saitō
Attendance: 7,845
Referee: Yoshida
Kashima Antlers1 – 0Omiya Ardija
Koroki  31' Report
Attendance: 6,515
Referee: Murakami
Shimizu S-Pulse1 – 0Albirex Niigata
Kobayashi  16' Report
Attendance: 7,479
Referee: Iemoto
Yokohama F. Marinos1 – 2Consadole Sapporo
Matsumoto  68' Report  6' Oshima
 45+2' Sakaki
Attendance: 7,148
Referee: Fukushima
Consadole Sapporo1 – 2Kashima Antlers
Sakaki  16' Report  85' Juninho
 90+4' Okamoto
Attendance: 6,877
Referee: Okabe
Albirex Niigata1 – 0Vissel Kobe
Hirai  27' Report
Attendance: 8,158
Referee: Yoshida
Shimizu S-Pulse1 – 0Yokohama F. Marinos
Brosque  76' Report
Attendance: 8,753
Referee: Kimura
Omiya Ardija1 – 1Consadole Sapporo
Kim  53' Report  88' Maeda
Attendance: 4,359
Referee: Yoshida
Vissel Kobe1 – 2Shimizu S-Pulse
Matsumura  64' Report  55' Kobayashi
 83' Takagi
Attendance: 3,778
Referee: Fukushima
Yokohama F. Marinos3 – 2Kashima Antlers
Hyodo  36'
Saitō  83'
Oguro  86'		 Report  58' Endo
 68' Juninho
Attendance: 9,693
Referee: Iemoto
Consadole Sapporo0 – 4Shimizu S-Pulse
Summary Kawai  2'
Lee Ki-Je  5'
Ishige  57'
Sugiyama  78'
Attendance: 3,687
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Omiya Ardija1 – 0Vissel Kobe
Aoki  31' Summary Bae Chun-Suk  70'
Attendance: 4,204
Albirex Niigata0 – 1Kashima Antlers
Summary Osako  86'
Attendance: 9,986
Referee: Ryuji Sato
Yokohama F. Marinos0 – 0Albirex Niigata
Summary
Attendance: 5,345
Referee: Yudai Yamamoto
Shimizu S-Pulse3 – 1Omiya Ardija
Hiraoka  41'
Omae  72' (pen.)
Shirasaki  88'		 Summary Hasegawa  36'
Fukaya  70'
Attendance: 10,596
Referee: Yuichi Nishimura
Vissel Kobe2 – 2Consadole Sapporo
Ōkubo  12', 21' Summary Sakai  35'
Okamoto  38'
Attendance: 4,083
Referee: Kazuhiko Matsumura
Kashima Antlers2 – 1Shimizu S-Pulse
Osako  75', 90' (pen.) Summary Ito  14'
Attendance: 6,207
Referee: Masaaki Iemoto
Albirex Niigata4 – 3Omiya Ardija
Kogure  62'
Hirai  73'
Suzuki  90', 90+4'		 Summary Shimizu  15', 49'
Watanabe  40'
Attendance: 7,664
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Vissel Kobe3 – 2Yokohama F. Marinos
Komoto  9', 87'
Morioka  40'		 Summary Ono  37'
Kanai  80'
Attendance: 5,029
Referee: Antonio Arias

Knock-out stage

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

  Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                             
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  
    Shimizu S-Pulse  
  Kashima Antlers  
  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  

First leg
Kashima Antlers2 – 1Cerezo Osaka
Iwamasa  22'
Koroki  25'		 Kakitani  33'
Attendance: 6,203
Referee: Kevin Friend
Vegalta Sendai2 – 2FC Tokyo
Tamura  32'
Wilson  50'		 Watanabe  16'
Ishikawa  30'
Attendance: 8,873
Referee: Darren Deadman
Shimizu S-Pulse0 – 1Nagoya Grampus
Yoshida  77'
Attendance: 6,719
Referee: Minoru Tojo
Gamba Osaka1 – 3Kashiwa Reysol
Niwa  83' Kudo  47'
Leandro Domingues  76',  90+5'
Attendance: 7,083
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida

Second leg
Kashiwa Reysol2 – 1Gamba Osaka
Leandro Domingues  17'
Kudo  60'		 Sato  30'
Attendance: 6,910
Referee: Jumpei Iida
Cerezo Osaka0 – 3Kashima Antlers
Dutra  28'
Koroki  63'
Shibasaki  70'
Attendance: 9,133
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami
FC Tokyo2 – 0Vegalta Sendai
Ishikawa  81'
Watanabe  90+3'
Ajinomoto Stadium, Chōfu, Tokyo
Attendance: 10,573
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
Nagoya Grampus3 – 4Shimizu S-Pulse
Tulio  54'
Fujimoto  76',  87'		 Alex  42'
Jymmy Franca  69'
Senuma  88'
Takagi  90+3'
Attendance: 7,313
Referee: Ryuji Sato

First leg
FC Tokyo2 – 1Shimizu S-Pulse
Kajiyama  35'
Lucas  80' (pen.)		 (Report) Tokunaga  23' (o.g.)
Ajinomoto Stadium, Chōfu, Tokyo
Attendance: 10,347
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
Kashima Antlers3 – 2Kashiwa Reysol
Osako  7',  69'
Renato  36'		 (Report) Barada  35'
Leandro Domingues  62'
Attendance: 9,115
Referee: Hajime Matsuo

Second leg
Shimizu S-Pulse3 – 0FC Tokyo
Omae  26', 63', 90+6' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 12,155
Referee: Kenji Ogiya
Kashiwa Reysol2 – 2Kashima Antlers
Jorge Wagner  37'
Neto Baiano  90+4'		 Report Dutra  12'
Osako  24'
Attendance: 13,527

Final
Main article: 2012 J.League Cup Final
Shimizu S-Pulse1 – 2 (a.e.t.)Kashima Antlers
Omae  77' (pen.) Report Shibasaki  73' (pen.), 93'
Attendance: 45,228

Goalscorers
Rank Name Team Goals
1 Yuya Osako Kashima Antlers 7
2 Genki Omae Shimizu S-Pulse 5
Yoichiro Kakitani Cerezo Osaka 5
4 Leandro Domingues Kashiwa Reysol 4

References
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