The 2012 J.League Cup, also known as the 2012 J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup for sponsoring purposes, was the 37th edition of the most prestigious Japanese
soccer league cup tournament and the 20th edition under the current
J.League Cup
The is a Japanese football (soccer) competition organized by J.League. It has been sponsored by Yamazaki Biscuits (YBC) of Yamazaki Baking (formerly Yamazaki Nabisco) since its inception in 1992. It is also known as the or (Levain is one of Y ...
format.
Kashima Antlers became the winners for two straight years and qualify for the
2013 Suruga Bank Championship
The 2013 Suruga Bank Championship ( ja, スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2013; es, Copa Suruga Bank 2013) was the sixth edition of the Suruga Bank Championship, the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the ...
.
Format
Teams from the
J.League Division 1 will take part in the tournament.
FC Tokyo,
Gamba Osaka
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,
Kashiwa Reysol
is a Japanese professional football club based in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. Their home stadium is Sankyo Frontier Kashiwa Stadium ...
and
Nagoya Grampus
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were given a bye to the quarter-finals due to qualification in the
2012 AFC Champions League. The remaining 14 teams started from the group stage, where they were divided into two groups of seven. The group winners and the runners-up of each group qualified for the quarter-final along with the four teams which qualified for the AFC Champions League.
Group stage
Standings
Group A
Group B
Results
Group A
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Group B
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Knock-out stage
All times are
Japan Standard Time
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UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00.
During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time wit ...
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Quarter-finals
First leg
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Second leg
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Semifinals
First leg
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Second leg
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Final
Goalscorers
References
{{J.League Cup champions
J.League Cup
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