2012 Peace Cup

The 2012 Peace Cup was an invitational friendly football tournament that was held from July 19 to July 22. It was the fifth Peace Cup and was held in Suwon, South Korea.

2012 Peace Cup
2012 Peace Cup Suwon
Tournament details
Host countrySouth Korea
Dates19 July – 22 July
Teams4 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
ChampionsHamburg (1st title)
Runners-upSeongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Tournament statistics
Matches played4
Goals scored10 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)Mitchell Schet (2 goals)
Best player(s)Marcus Berg (Hamburg)

Format

The 2012 tournament featured some major changes compared to previous tournaments. The number of teams participating was reduced from eight to four. Therefore, the teams would immediately be playing one another in sudden death mode. The draws for these pairings were decided via polls on the official website. Due to these changes, the tournament would last four days, rather than ten as previous tournaments did. All matches were played in the Suwon World Cup Stadium.

As always, the host of the tournament was South Korean club Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. The other teams were partly chosen because of the South Korean football players they have in their squads.

Venues
Suwon
Suwon World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 43,959

Teams

Matches

Match A
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 1–0 Sunderland
Éverton  29'
Attendance: 19,074

Match B
Hamburg 2–1 Groningen
Aogo  15' (pen.)
Iličević  80'		 Schet  28'

Third place play-off
Sunderland 3–2 Groningen
Wickham  20'
Campbell  89'
Noble  90'		 Suk Hyun-Jun  38'
Schet  45'

Final
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 0–1 Hamburg
Berg  81'

Statistics

Goalscorers
2 goals
1 goal
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