2012 Japanese Super Cup

2012 Japanese Super Cup
Date	3 March 2012
Venue	National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo
Man of the Match	Leandro Domingues (Kashiwa Reysol)
Referee	Yuichi Nishimura
Attendance	35,453
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The 2012 Japanese Super Cup was held on 3 March 2012 between the 2011 J. League champions Kashiwa Reysol and the 2011 Emperor's Cup winner F.C. Tokyo. Kashiwa Reysol won the match 2–1 in regulation time.^[1]

Background edit

This was the first time both teams had participated in the competition. Kashiwa, having won its first League title since 1972 (when no Super Cup was played) and FC Tokyo, having become the third club to win both the second-tier title and the Emperor's Cup since Yamaha (Júbilo Iwata) in 1982, both had qualified to the Asian Champions League by virtue of winning their titles.

Match edit

3 March 2012

13:35 JST

Kashiwa Reysol	2–1	FC Tokyo
Wagner 27' Leandro 45' (pen.)	Report	64' Aria

National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 35,453^[2]

Referee:

Yuichi Nishimura

Kashiwa Reysol

FC Tokyo


KASHIWA REYSOL (4-4-2):
GK	21	Takanori Sugeno
RB	4	Hiroki Sakai
CB	5	Tatsuya Masushima
CB	3	Naoya Kondo
LB	22	Wataru Hashimoto
RM	20	Akimi Barada	39'
LM	7	Hidekazu Otani		81'
RW	10	Leandro Domigues	45' (pen.)
LW	15	Jorge Wagner	27'
CF	18	Junya Tanaka		68'
CF	9	Hideaki Kitajima		68'
Substitutes:
GK	16	Koji Inada
CM	17	An Yong-Hak		81'
CB	6	Daisuke Nasu
AM	8	Masakatsu Sawa		68'
RW	29	Koki Mizuno
CF	19	Masato Kudo
CF	25	Ricardo Lobo		68'
Manager:
Nelsinho Baptista


FC TOKYO (4-2-3-1):
GK	1	Hitoshi Shiota
RB	33	Kenta Mukuhara
CB	2	Yuhei Tokunaga
CB	3	Masato Morishige
LB	6	Kosuke Ota
RM	10	Yohei Kajiyama
AM	8	Aria Jasuru Hasegawa	64'
LM	4	Hideto Takahashi		84'
RW	18	Naohiro Ishikawa		57'
LW	39	Tatsuya Yazawa	50'	72'
CF	49	Lucas Severino
Substitutes:
GK	20	Shuichi Gonda
CB	5	Kenichi Kaga
RW	17	Hiroki Kawano		84'
AM	22	Naotake Hanyu		72'
CM	27	Sotan Tanabe
CF	11	Kazuma Watanabe		57'
CF	13	Sōta Hirayama
Manager:
Ranko Popović