2012 Cerezo Osaka season

The 2012 Cerezo Osaka season is Cerezo Osaka's 3rd consecutive season, 14th season overall in J.League Division 1 and 40th overall in the Japanese top flight. It also includes the 2012 J.League Cup and the 2011 Emperor's Cup. 2012 is Sérgio Soares's first season at Cerezo after Levir Culpi left at the end of last season.

Cerezo Osaka
2012 season
ManagerBrazil Sérgio Soares
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Players

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Current squad

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As of December 18, 2010 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   JPN Kenya Matsui
2 DF   JPN Takahiro Ogihara
3 DF   JPN Teruyuki Moniwa
4 DF   JPN Kota Fujimoto
6 MF   JPN Hotaru Yamaguchi
8 FW   JPN Hiroshi Kiyotake
9 FW   BRA Kempes
11 FW   JPN Ryūji Bando
13 MF   JPN Yoichiro Kakitani
14 MF   JPN Yusuke Maruhashi
16 MF   KOR Kim Bo-Kyung
17 MF   JPN Noriyuki Sakemoto
19 FW   JPN Ryo Nagai
20 MF   JPN Daisuke Takahashi
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 GK   KOR Kim Jin-Hyeon
24 DF   PRK Kim Song-Gi
25 MF   JPN Masato Kurogi
26 MF   JPN Kazuya Murata
27 GK   JPN Kazuki Abe
30 GK   JPN Kenjiro Ogino
31 FW   JPN Kenyu Sugimoto
- DF   JPN Tatsuya Yamashita
- DF   JPN Tomonobu Yokoyama
- DF   JPN Arata Komada
- MF   JPN Tetsuya Funatsu
- MF   JPN Takamitsu Yoshino
- MF   JPN Shota Inoue

2011 season transfers

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In Winter Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
- DF   JPN Tatsuya Yamashita (Transferred from Consadole Sapporo)
- DF   JPN Tomonobu Yokoyama (Transferred from Kawasaki Frontale)
- DF   JPN Arata Komada (Transferred from Shimizu S-Pulse)
- MF   JPN Tetsuya Funatsu (Loan from Kataller Toyoma)
- MF   JPN Yoichiro Kakitani (Loan Return from Tokushima Vortis)
- MF   JPN Takamitsu Yoshino (Drafted from Kokushikan University)
- MF   JPN Shota Inoue (Free agent)
9 FW   BRA Kempes (Loan from Portuguesa)

Out Winter Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
5 MF   JPN Masaki Chugo (Loan return to JEF United Ichihara Chiba)
7 MF   JPN Yohei Otake (Loan return to FC Tokyo)
9 MF   BRA Fabio Lopes (Loan return to Icasa)
10 MF   BRA Martinez (Contract Not Renewed)
15 FW   JPN Rui Komatsu (Transferred to Kawasaki Frontale)
22 DF   JPN Taikai Uemoto (Transferred to Vegalta Sendei)
23 MF   JPN Shu Kurata (Loan return to Gamba Osaka)
28 MF   JPN Naoto Noguchi (Loan to Oita Trinita)
29 DF   JPN Ryosuke Tada (Loan to Oita Trinita)
32 DF   JPN Hiroyuki Omata (Transferred to Avispa Fukuoka)
33 DF   JPN Yutaro Takahashi (Transferred to Roassa Kumamoto)

Competitions

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J.League

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima (C) 34 19 7 8 63 34 +29 64 Qualification to 2012 Club World Cup and 2013 Champions League
2 Vegalta Sendai 34 15 12 7 59 43 +16 57 Qualification to 2013 Champions League[a]
3 Urawa Red Diamonds 34 15 10 9 47 42 +5 55
4 Yokohama F. Marinos 34 13 14 7 44 33 +11 53
5 Sagan Tosu 34 15 8 11 48 39 +9 53
6 Kashiwa Reysol 34 15 7 12 57 52 +5 52 Qualification to 2013 Champions League[a]
7 Nagoya Grampus 34 15 7 12 46 47 −1 52
8 Kawasaki Frontale 34 14 8 12 51 50 +1 50
9 Shimizu S-Pulse 34 14 7 13 39 40 −1 49
10 FC Tokyo 34 14 6 14 47 44 +3 48
11 Kashima Antlers 34 12 10 12 50 43 +7 46
12 Júbilo Iwata 34 13 7 14 57 53 +4 46
13 Omiya Ardija 34 11 11 12 38 45 −7 44
14 Cerezo Osaka 34 11 9 14 47 53 −6 42
15 Albirex Niigata 34 10 10 14 29 34 −5 40
16 Vissel Kobe (R) 34 11 6 17 41 50 −9 39 Relegation to 2013 J.League Division 2
17 Gamba Osaka (R) 34 9 11 14 67 65 +2 38
18 Consadole Sapporo (R) 34 4 2 28 25 88 −63 14
Updated to match(es) played on 1 December 2012. Source: J.League Division 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The winners of the 2012 Emperor's Cup qualified for the group stage of the 2013 AFC Champions League.

Matches

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10 March 2012 1 Sagan Tosu 0 – 0 Cerezo Osaka Best Amenity Stadium
Saturday 14:05 Report Attendance: 11,283[1]
Referee: Inoue
17 March 2012 2 Cerezo Osaka 2 – 1 Gamba Osaka Osaka Nagai Stadium
Saturday 14:04 Branquinho   19'
Kempes   90+4'
Report   27' Paulinho Attendance: 30,764
Referee: Yoshida
24 March 2012 3 Kawasaki Frontale 0 – 1 Cerezo Osaka Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium
Saturday 14:04 Report   75' Kim Attendance: 14,777
Referee: Matsuo
31 March 2012 4 Cerezo Osaka 1 – 2 Vegalta Sendai KINCHO Stadium
Saturday 15:04 Bando   85' Report   34' Wilson
  51' Akamine
Attendance: 9,598
Referee: Murakami
7 April 2012 5 Omiya Ardija 0 – 3 Cerezo Osaka NACK5 Stadium Omiya
17:00 Shimohira   9'
Watabe   52'
Report Kiyotake   53' (pen.)
Kim Bo-Kyung   55', 67'   58'
Takahashi   60'
Attendance: 8,180
Referee:   Yuichi Nishimura
14 April 2012 6 Cerezo Osaka 0 – 1 Albirex Niigata KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Ogihara   39' Report Kim Jin-Su   26'
Michael   29'
Bruno Lopes   33'
Murakami   44'
Ishikawa   56'
Yano   86'   90+4'
Attendance: 9,154
Referee:   Minoru Tojo
21 April 2012 7 Kashima Antlers 3 – 2 Cerezo Osaka Kashima Soccer Stadium
16:00 Dutra   57'   88'
Koroki   62'
Endo   85'
Report Kim Bo-Kyung   20', 44'   72'
Yamaguchi   36'
Ogihara   41'
Moniwa   82'
Kurogi   89'
Attendance: 12,110
Referee:   Hajime Matsuro
28 April 2012 8 Cerezo Osaka 3 – 2 Júbilo Iwata KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Kiyotake   20'
Ogihara   47'
Kim Bo-Kyung   83'
Report Yamada   61'   87'
Cho Byung-Kuk   75'   90+2'
Attendance: 12,183
Referee:   Yoshiro Imamura
3 May 2012 9 Consadole Sapporo 1 – 0 Cerezo Osaka Sapporo Dome
15:00 Kondo   25'
Kawai   28'
Miyazawa   78'
Kushibiki   88'
Report Sakemoto   15'
Branquinho   39'
Fujimoto   44'
Ogihara   76'
Attendance: 9,596
Referee:   Hiroyuki Kimura
6 May 2012 10 Cerezo Osaka 1 – 2 Vissel Kobe KINCHO Stadium
14:00 Maruhashi   34'
Kim Bo-Kyung   40' (pen.)
Report Lee Kwang-Seon   5'
Yoshida   35' (pen.)
Soma   39'
Kitamoto   61'
Nozawa   69'
Attendance: 16,446
Referee:   Kenji Ogiya
12 May 2012 11 Shimizu S-Pulse 1 – 1 Cerezo Osaka Outsourcing Stadium Nihondaira
16:30 Iwashita   74'
Brosque   90+6'
Report Kakitani   15'
Kurogi   69'
Attendance: 15,891
Referee:   Jumpei IIda
19 May 2012 12 Cerezo Osaka 1 – 2 Kashiwa Reysol KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Kempes   36'
Fujimoto   85'
Ogihara   90+3'
Report Leandro Domingues   63'
Tanaka   66'
Attendance: 19,643
Referee:   Yuchi Nishimura
25 May 2012 13 Nagoya Grampus 0 – 1 Cerezo Osaka Toyota Stadium
20:30 Kennedy   44' Report Bando   43'   60'
Kempes   49'   80'
Kurogi   52'
Attendance: 16,657
Referee:   Minoru Tojo
16 June 2012 14 Cerezo Osaka 1 – 4 Sanfrecce Hiroshima KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Kim Jin-Hyeon   28'
Kakitani   40'
Yamaguchi   49'
Kempes   78'
Report Takahagi   8'
Satō   64'
Aoyama   71'
Ishihara   76', 90'
Attendance: 11,538
Referee:   Futoshi Nakamura
23 June 2012 15 FC Tokyo 2 – 0 Cerezo Osaka Ajinomoto Stadium
19:00 Hasegawa   60'
Lucas Severino   76'
Report Attendance: 22,685
Referee:   Hiroyoshi Takayama
30 June 2012 16 Cerezo Osaka 1 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Kakitani   90+1' Report Suzuki   20'
Márcio Richardes   80'
Kato   83'
Despotović   89'
Attendance: 36,723
Referee:   Masaaki Iemoto
7 July 2012 17 Yokohama F. Marinos 1 – 1 Cerezo Osaka International Stadium Yokohama
20:00 Tomisawa   31'
Kobayashi   87'
Report Ogihara   28'
Kakitani   80'
Sakemoto   89'
Attendance: 9,751
Referee:   Tomohiro Inoue
14 July 2012 18 Cerezo Osaka 0 – 1 Kashima Antlers KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Kempes   42'
Fujimoto   56'
Yamaguchi   86'
Ogihara   90+1'
Report Ogasawara   38'
Koroki   45'
Attendance: 26,534
Referee:   Ryuji Sato
28 July 2012 19 Kashiwa Reysol 4 – 1 Cerezo Osaka Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
20:00 Kudo   28', 41', 50'
Sawa   68'
Report Fujimoto   21'
Kakitani   35'
Bando   39'
Funatsu   73'
Attendance: 11,844
Referee:   Yoshiro Imamura
4 August 2012 20 Cerezo Osaka 4 – 0 Consadole Sapporo KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Murata   37'
Kurogi   45+1'
Kakitani   54'
Maruhashi   64'
Kempes   68', 90'
Report Nara   31'
Hidaka   88'
Attendance: 8,226
Referee:   Futoshi Nakamura
11 August 2012 21 Gamba Osaka 2 – 2 Cerezo Osaka Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
20:00 Sato   53', 62' Report Kempes   13'
Edamura   28', 50'
Fábio Simplício   38'
Sakemoto   45'
Yokoyama   82'
Attendance: 18,578
Referee:   Tomoya Maeda
18 August 2012 22 Júbilo Iwata 4 – 3 Cerezo Osaka Yamaha Stadium
20:00 Fujita   9'
Suganuma   16'   77'
Maeda   82', 85'
Report Yamaguchi   13'
Ohgihara   26'   63'
Edamura   55'
Kempes   68'
Moniwa   87'
Attendance: 10,939
Referee:   Jumpei Iida
25 August 2012 23 Cerezo Osaka 2 – 0 Yokohama F. Marinos KINCHO Stadium
20:00 Yamaguchi   62'   65'
Maruhashi   75'
Kakitani   77'
Report Dutra   8' Attendance: 14,336
Referee:   Minoru Tojo
1 September 2012 24 Albirex Niigata 0 – 1 Cerezo Osaka Tohoku Electric Power Big Swan Stadium
20:00 Michael   62' Summary Kakitani   81' Attendance: 24,601
Referee:   Futoshi Nakamura
15 September 2012 25 Cerezo Osaka 0 – 2 Nagoya Grampus KINCHO Stadium
20:15 Heberty   90' Summary Taguchi   38'
Kennedy   51'   68'
Nagai   54'
Attendance: 24,544
Referee:   Toshimitsu Yoshida
22 September 2012 26 Cerezo Osaka 3 – 2 Shimizu S-Pulse KINCHO Stadium
19:00 Kempes   20'   50'
Kakitani   45+2'
Fábio Simplício   88'
Summary Omae   9' (pen.)
Kim Hyun-Sung   45'
Muramatsu   47'
Brosque   70'
Attendance: 15,302
Referee:   Hiroyuki Kimura
29 September 2012 27 Vissel Kobe 2 – 3 Cerezo Osaka Home's Stadium Kobe
15:00 JST Ogawa   7'
Soma   17'
Lee Kwang-Seon   33'
Summary Heberty   13'
Fábio Simplício   22', 73'
Maruhashi   60'
Edamura   81'
Bando   90+5'
Attendance: 12,868
Referee:   Hiroyoshi Takayama
6 October 2012 28 Cerezo Osaka 3 – 2 Sagan Tosu KINCHO Stadium
14:00 Kakitani   27', 86', 90'
Kim Jin-Hyeon   89'
Summary Kim Min-Woo   20'
Fujita   63'
Toyoda   70'
Attendance: 10,013
Referee:   Yuichi Nishimura
20 October 2012 29 Cerezo Osaka 1 – 1 FC Tokyo KINCHO Stadium
19:00 Maruhashi   50' Summary Hasegawa   54'   90+3'
Yonemoto   70'
Vučićević   74'
Attendance: 14,268
Referee:   Tomoya Maeda

J.League Cup

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Cerezo Osaka 6 4 0 2 15 7 +8 12
Vegalta Sendai 6 4 0 2 11 5 +4 12
Júbilo Iwata 6 4 0 2 10 11 −1 12
Urawa Red Diamonds 6 3 0 3 12 10 +2 9
Sagan Tosu 6 3 0 3 8 16 −8 9
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 6 1 1 4 8 11 −3 4
Kawasaki Frontale 6 1 1 4 7 11 −4 4
20 March 2012 Group A Júbilo Iwata 2 – 1 Cerezo Osaka Yamaha Stadium
Tuesday 19:04 Matsuura   59'
Maeda   88'
Report   38' Branquinho Attendance: 8,036
Referee: Kimura
18 April 2012 Group A Urawa Red Diamonds 1 – 4 Cerezo Osaka Saitama Stadium 2002
20:30 Kojima   7'
Yajima   42'
Kashiwagi   85'
Report Kiyotake   11'
Fujimoto   45'
Branquinho   49'
Sakemoto   65'
Bando   81'   83'
Attendance: 16,533
Referee:   Ryuji Sato
16 May 2012 Group A Cerezo Osaka 2 – 1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Kincho Stadium
20:00 Branquinho   27'
Bando   45+2'
Ogihara   67'
Murata   81'
Kim Bo-Kyung   90+5' (pen.)
Report Satō   30'
Aoyama   76'
Moriwaki   90+4'
Attendance: 6,397
Referee:   Takuto Okabe
6 June 2012 Group A Cerezo Osaka 3 – 2 Kawasaki Frontale Kincho Stadium
20:00 Ogihara   27'
Kempes   47'   59'
Sakemoto   57'
Kakitani   58', 86'
Takahashi   81'
Report Kusukami   30'
Renatinho   68'   85'
Attendance: 6,855
Referee:   Koichiro Fukushima
9 June 2012 Group A Vegalta Sendai 1 – 0 Cerezo Osaka Yurtec Stadium Sendai
17:00 Tamura   53'
Ryang Yong-Gi   63'
Report Kempes   10' Attendance: 8,638
Referee:   Yoshiro Imamura
27 June 2012 Group A Cerezo Osaka 5 – 0 Sagan Tosu Kincho Stadium
20:00 Ogihara   24'
Kim Bo-Kyung   45+4' (pen.)
Kakitani   46'   55', 71'
Yamaguchi   83'
Fujimoto   90'
Report Noda   16'   30'
Akahoshi   44'
Attendance: 7,280
Referee:   Minoru Tojo

Quarter-final

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25 July 2012 First leg Kashima Antlers 2 – 1 Cerezo Osaka Kashima
20:00 Iwamasa   22'
Koroki   25'
Nishi   62'
Report Kakitani   33'
Yoshino   83'
Kurogi   90+4'
Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium
Attendance: 6,203
Referee:   Kevin Friend
8 August 2012 Second leg Cerezo Osaka 0 – 3
(1 – 5 agg.)
Kashima Antlers Osaka
20:00 Yoshino   71' Report Sergio Dutra Junior   28'
Koroki   63' (pen.)
Shibasaki   70'
Ogasawara   76'
Stadium: Kincho Stadium
Attendance: 9,555
Referee:   Nobutsugu Murakami

Emperor's Cup

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8 September 2012 Round 2 Cerezo Osaka 4 – 0 Nara Club Osaka
13:00 Kempes   25'
Yamaguchi   59'
Sugimoto   83', 86'
Report Stadium: Kincho Stadium
Attendance: 3,123
Referee: Ryuji Sato
10 October 2012 Round 3 Cerezo Osaka 2 – 1 Montedio Yamagata Osaka
19:00 Sugimoto   59'
Fujimoto   89'
Report Maeda   50' Stadium: Kincho Stadium
Attendance: 3,804
Referee: Masaaki Iemoto

References

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