2012 Emperor's Cup

Calendar

• The collegiate champion no longer qualifies for the Emperor Cup. Though, they may still enter the Emperor Cup if they won the prefectural cup.
• The highest ranked Japan Football League (JFL) club after the 17th match day (June 24) is to qualify for the tournament.
• December 19 was reserved for at most 1 game of Fourth Round in case of event clashes due to 2012 FIFA Club World Cup. As Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the team playing the Club World Cup was already eliminated in Emperor Cup on Second Round, the event was not postponed.

Participating clubs

Starting in the First round

;Prefectural cup winners – 47 teams

• Hokkaidō – Sapporo University
• Aomori – Vanraure Hachinohe
• Iwate – Grulla Morioka
• Miyagi – Sony Sendai
• Akita – Blaublitz Akita
• Yamagata –
• Fukushima – Fukushima United
• Ibaraki – University of Tsukuba
• Tochigi – Vertfee Takahara Nasu
• Gunma – Tonan Maebashi
• Saitama – Heisei International University
• Chiba – Kashiwa Reysol U-18
• Tokyo – Yokogawa Musashino
• Kanagawa – YSCC Yokohama
• Yamanashi – Yamanashi Gakuin University Orions
• Nagano – Nagano Parceiro
• Niigata – Niigata University of Management
• Toyama – Toyama Shinjo Club
• Ishikawa – Zweigen Kanazawa
• Fukui – Saurcos Fukui
• Shizuoka – Hamamatsu University
• Aichi – FC Kariya
• Mie – Suzuka Rampole
• Gifu – FC Gifu Second
• Shiga – Sagawa Shiga
• Kyoto – Amitie SC
• Osaka – Kansai University
• Hyōgo – Kwansei Gakuin University
• Nara – Nara Club
• Wakayama – Arterivo Wakayama
• Tottori –
• Shimane – Matsue City FC
• Okayama – Fagiano Okayama Next
• Hiroshima – Fukuyama University
• Yamaguchi – Tokuyama University
• Kagawa – Kamatamare Sanuki
• Tokushima –
• Ehime – FC Imabari
• Kochi – Kochi University
• Fukuoka – Fukuoka University
• Saga – Saga University
• Nagasaki – (*1)
• Kumamoto –
• Ōita – Hoyo Oita
• Miyazaki – Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University
• Kagoshima – Volca Kagoshima
• Okinawa – FC Ryukyu (*1) The team was the prefectural runners-up; Both Nagasaki Prefectural Cup finalists qualified for the final tournament, after the other finalist, V-Varen Nagasaki, had qualified to the Emperor's Cup as the JFL seeded club.

;JFL seeded club – 1 team :V-Varen Nagasaki

Starting in the Second round

;J.League Division 1 – 18 teams

• Consadole Sapporo
• Vegalta Sendai
• Kashima Antlers
• Kashiwa Reysol
• Omiya Ardija
• Urawa Red Diamonds
• FC Tokyo
• Kawasaki Frontale
• Yokohama F. Marinos
• Shimizu S-Pulse
• Júbilo Iwata
• Nagoya Grampus
• Albirex Niigata
• Cerezo Osaka
• Gamba Osaka
• Vissel Kobe
• Sanfrecce Hiroshima
• Sagan Tosu

;J.League Division 2 – 22 teams

• Montedio Yamagata
• Mito HollyHock
• Tochigi SC
• Thespa Kusatsu
• JEF United Chiba
• Tokyo Verdy
• Machida Zelvia
• Yokohama FC
• Shonan Bellmare
• Ventforet Kofu
• Matsumoto Yamaga
• Kataller Toyama
• FC Gifu
• Kyoto Sanga
• Fagiano Okayama
• Gainare Tottori
• Tokushima Vortis
• Ehime FC
• Giravanz Kitakyushu
• Avispa Fukuoka
• Roasso Kumamoto
• Oita Trinita

Drawing

Since this year, the drawing of the tournament was held twice: The first draw determined the pairings of first to third round matches; the second draw was held after the third round that determined the pairings of the fourth round to the final.

Matches

First round

Second round

Sawa

Kobayashi Oshitani Yamazaki Han Sang-woon Yoshiro Abe

Komai Nakayama

Shohei Kiyohara

Nakama Osako Danilo

Cho Young-Cheol

Osmar Samir Shohei Kishida

Nakamachi Marquinhos Matsumoto Masao Tsuji

Yamaguchi Kenyu Sugimoto

Nishikawa Nakashima

Goto

Ogawa

Popó

Daiki Takada

Ito Kashiwase

Iio França

Myojin Abe

Hashimoto

Juninho Aoki Okamoto Shoji

Sumida

Tsuda Hamada Nasukawa Ota

Third round

Neto Baiano

Shogo Matsuo Shinichi Mukai Kenichi Nozawa Yoshitaka Ohashi Yosuke Terada Keita Tanaka Kohei Takano Takahiro Oshima Yuki Kawabe Yudai Suwa Shunsuke Hayashi Tatsuya Sekino Takanori Kanamori Masaaki Yabe Daiki Koyama Sho Kaseyama Daigo Tomioka Shu Hiraiwa Ryoya Ueda Kaijiro Fujiyoshi

Hiroki Yamada Kosuke Yamamoto Rodrigo Souto Jo Kanazawa Kazuki Hara Atsutaka Nakamura Shun Nagasawa

Shohei Kiyohara Shinya Hatate Yuta Narawa Hideyuki Takeya Shōgo Shimada Yusuke Kushibiki Tatsuya Nakamura Masato Osugi Koki Yonekura Eijiro Takeda Ryota Aoki Kei Yamaguchi Daisuke Ito Sho Sato Haruya Ide Akira Toshima

Yabu

Zlatan Novaković

Fujimoto

Sekido Nagai

Popó

Okamoto Kitai Dimić Note: The venue was changed on 21 September, originally planned to be Hiroshima Big Arch Main Stadium.

Koroki

Kusukami Tsuda

Fourth round

Iwashita Endō Suzuki

Yamaguchi Sugimoto Murata

Yazawa Fujita Toshima Hyodo

Dutra Juninho

Kano

Kanazaki Ogawa Nagai Tamada

Higashi Renato

Quarter-finals

Ienaga

Isomura Taguchi Tulio Tamada Nagai Abe H. Tanaka Hyodo Marquinhos Nakamachi Ono Kurihara Tomisawa Nakazawa

Cho Masushima Kudo

Semi-finals

Final

Main article: 2012 Emperor's Cup Final

References

References

1. "長崎県サッカー選手権大会組合せ". Nagasaki Football Association.
2. (2012-06-24). "第92回天皇杯ＪＦＬシードはＶ･ファーレン長崎に決定！". [[Japan Football League]].
3. (21 September 2012). "第92回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会 ３回戦（マッチナンバー【67】）試合会場変更について". [[Japan Football Association]].