2011 Emperor's Cup

Calendar

*(*1)*a total number of four games were postponed to 7 or 14 September due to tropical storm.

*(*2)*a total number of eight games were postponed to 12 October due to event clashes of quarterfinals of 2011 J.League Cup, and November 9 was reserved for Cerezo Osaka and Hokkaido University of Education Iwamizawa Campus in case of event clashes if Cerezo entered the 2011 AFC Champions League semi-finals (but game was not postponed as Cerezo was eliminated in quarter-finals).

*(*3)*Kashiwa Reysol's game was postponed to 21 December due to the participation in 2011 FIFA Club World Cup.

Participating clubs

Starting in the first round

;Prefectural finals winners – 47 teams

• Hokkaidō – Hokkaido UE Iwamizawa
• Aomori – Hachinohe University
• Iwate – Grulla Morioka
• Miyagi – Sony Sendai*
• Akita – Blaublitz Akita
• Yamagata – Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine
• Fukushima – Fukushima United
• Ibaraki – University of Tsukuba
• Tochigi – Tochigi Uva
• Gunma – Arte Takasaki
• Saitama – Heisei International University
• Chiba – Kashiwa Reysol U-18
• Tokyo – Machida Zelvia
• Kanagawa – YSCC Yokohama
• Yamanashi – Yamanashi Gakuin University High School
• Nagano – Matsumoto Yamaga
• Niigata – Japan Soccer College
• Toyama – Toyama Shinjo Club
• Ishikawa – Zweigen Kanazawa
• Fukui – Maruoka Phoenix
• Shizuoka – Shizuoka Sangyo University
• Aichi – Chukyo University
• Mie – Suzuka Rampole
• Gifu – FC Gifu Second
• Shiga – Sagawa Shiga
• Kyoto – SP Kyoto
• Osaka – Hannan University
• Hyōgo – Sanyo Electric Sumoto SC
• Nara – Nara Club
• Wakayama – Arterivo Wakayama
• Tottori – Yonago Kita High School
• Shimane – Dezzolla Shimane
• Okayama – Fagiano Okayama Next
• Hiroshima – Hiroshima University of Economics
• Yamaguchi – Renofa Yamaguchi FC
• Kagawa – Kamatamare Sanuki
• Tokushima – Sanyo Electric Tokushima SC
• Ehime – Ehime FC Shimanami
• Kochi – Kōchi University
• Fukuoka – Fukuoka University
• Saga – Saga Lixil
• Nagasaki – V-Varen Nagasaki
• Kumamoto – Kumamoto Teachers SC
• Ōita – Hoyo AC Elan Ōita
• Miyazaki – Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University
• Kagoshima – FC Kagoshima
• Okinawa – Kaiho Bank SC ** After Miyagi prefectural qualification tournament was canceled due to 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Miyagi Football Association proposed that Sony Sendai represent Miyagi Prefecture since it is the most successful amateur team in the prefecture and represented the prefecture last year.* Japan Football Association approved the proposal.

;Prime Minister's Cup All Japan University Football Tournament winners – 1 team

• Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences

Starting in the second round

;J.League Division 1 – 18 teams

• Vegalta Sendai
• Montedio Yamagata
• Kashima Antlers
• Kashiwa Reysol
• Omiya Ardija
• Urawa Red Diamonds
• Kawasaki Frontale
• Yokohama F. Marinos
• Ventforet Kofu
• Shimizu S-Pulse
• Júbilo Iwata
• Nagoya Grampus
• Albirex Niigata
• Cerezo Osaka
• Gamba Osaka
• Vissel Kobe
• Sanfrecce Hiroshima
• Avispa Fukuoka

;J.League Division 2 – 20 teams

• Consadole Sapporo
• Mito HollyHock
• Tochigi SC
• Thespa Kusatsu
• JEF United Chiba
• FC Tokyo
• Tokyo Verdy
• Yokohama FC
• Shonan Bellmare
• Kataller Toyama
• FC Gifu
• Kyoto Sanga
• Fagiano Okayama
• Gainare Tottori
• Tokushima Vortis
• Ehime FC
• Giravanz Kitakyushu
• Sagan Tosu
• Roasso Kumamoto
• Oita Trinita

;Japan Football League – 2 teams

• Honda Lock
• FC Ryukyu ※Clubs that occupied two top places at the end of the 17th round (11th week) of 2011 Japan Football League.

Matches

All matches are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

First round

Due to Tropical Storm Talas (, 2011 Japanese Typhoon 12), four matches were postponed.

Note: The original schedule was 3 September 13:00 but postponed due to tropical storm.

Katsuhito Araki Katsumata Tsuda Ōta

Omo Note: The original schedule was 3 September 15:00 but postponed due to tropical storm.

Kijima

Misaki Uemura

Matsuda Imai Higa Kawata Kozawa Chino

Otsuki Hirai Nakasuji

Ito

Kotera Nakamura Yamamoto Nishihara Kanemitsu Sakamoto Ito Suzuki Takata

Tanoue Chaen Funakawa Maeda

Koichi Ota Yusuke Inoue

Saitou Honda Note: The original schedule was 3 September 15:00 but postponed due to tropical storm.

Atsuki Goryo Hattoku Shimaya Yoshitaka Fujiyama

Fujima Hirose Uehara Uchida Sugawara Minaguchi Watanabe Ikenaga

Morihara

Ryobu Watabe Kojiro Takeuchi Note: The original schedule was 3 September 13:00 and but postponed due to tropical storm. The original venue was Naruto Otsuka Sports Park Pocarisweat Stadium but changed as a result of the postponement.

Yuichi Endo

Hamamura Kim Shimizu Kuno

Sorayama Kashiwagi

Second round

Hashimoto Arai Tanaka Taguchi

Leandro

Paulinho

Taniguchi Oguro

Kawahara

Kawamata Kogure Uchida

Funayama

Osako

Funatsu Kurobe Arai Yamase Ōnishi Kurobe Hirano Yada Kuniyoshi Kim Ikeda

Hasegawa

Miyayoshi Kubo

Tasaka

Watanabe Higashi Fujimoto Nagatani Tamura Okada Kuroki

Sakamoto

Kim

Sakaki Romero Frank Koike

Morishige Lucas

Matsuoka Popó Park Botti

Yokotake Mizumoto Hirabayashi Note: The venue of the match was originally planned to be Hiroshima Big Arch football ground 1 but changed on June 28.

Uchida

Mazola Hara Takasaki

Abe Tsuchiya Kikuoka Kobayashi

Fabio Lopes Sugimoto Komatsu Otake

Muto

Matsuura Takahashi

Omae

Kim Yoshino

Third round

Kudo Kitajima Hashimoto Tanaka Note: The venue of the match was originally planned to be Kashiwanoha Park Stadium but changed due to stadium maintenance.

Nakamura

Nozawa

Miyazawa

Tasaka Kusukami Yajima

Takayama Adiel

Sasaki Suzuki Koike

Morishige

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Takahara Sugiyama Nagai Yamamoto

Fourth round

Masukawa Kudo Alex Yoshimura Kanazaki K. Hashimoto Nagai Masukawa Chiyotanda Narazaki Córdoba Sawa Otani Kondo Mizuno Kudo W. Hashimoto Masushima Kitajima Sugeno Note: The original schedule was December 17 13:00 but changed due to Reysol's participation in 2011 FIFA Club World Cup.

Nakamura

Hara Kashiwagi

Kim Maruhashi Ogihara Akamine Muto Matsushita

Ito

Quarter-finals

Isomura Ogawa Yoshimura Córdoba Kurihara Kobayashi Kanai

Kiyotake Takagi Kim Bo-Kyung Kuaata Maruhashi Bando Yamaguchi Komatsu Brosque Ito Iwashita Bosnar Takagi Yamamoto

Semi-finals

Nakazawa Dutra
Kubo
Komai

Final

Main article: 2011 Emperor's Cup Final

Kubo Morishige Lucas

• First final to feature two second-tier teams and first to feature such team since 1994 final.
• Third time a second-tier champion wins the final since 1981 and 1982 finals.
• Nakayama's goal was the first to be scored in the year 2012.

References

References

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