The 2012 Japanese Super Cup was a football competition 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.
Background 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
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 LM 7 Hidekazu Otani RW 10 Leandro Domigues LW 15 Jorge Wagner CF 18 Junya Tanaka CF 9 Hideaki Kitajima Substitutes:GK 16 Koji Inada CM 17 An Yong-Hak CB 6 Daisuke Nasu AM 8 Masakatsu Sawa RW 29 Koki Mizuno CF 19 Masato Kudo CF 25 Ricardo Lobo 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 LM 4 Hideto Takahashi RW 18 Naohiro Ishikawa LW 39 Tatsuya Yazawa CF 49 Lucas Severino Substitutes:GK 20 Shuichi Gonda CB 5 Kenichi Kaga RW 17 Hiroki Kawano AM 22 Naotake Hanyu CM 27 Sotan Tanabe CF 11 Kazuma Watanabe CF 13 Sōta Hirayama Manager: Ranko Popović
Man of the Match: Leandro Domingues (Kashiwa Reysol)
Assistant referees: Toshiyuki Nagi Akane Yagi Fourth official: Hiroyuki Kimura
See also 2011 J. League Division 1 2011 Emperor's Cup
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