2012 International Women's Club Championship Explained

Tourney Name:mobcast cup International Women's Club Championship
Yearr:2012
Other Titles:mobcast cup 国際女子サッカークラブ選手権2012
Country:Japan
Dates:22 November - 25 November
Num Teams:4
Venues:2
Cities:1
Champion Other:Olympique Lyonnais
Count:1
Second Other:INAC Kobe Leonessa
Third Other:NTV Beleza
Fourth Other:Canberra United
Matches:4
Goals:21
Top Scorer:Azusa Iwashimizu
Asano Nagasato
Lara Dickenmann
Beverly Goebel-Yanez
(2 goals)
Nextseason:2013

The 2012 International Women's Club Championship was the first world wide international women's football club tournament, and was held in Japan from November 22–25, 2012. Four teams, comprising representatives from Europe, Australia and Japan, took part in the competition.

Organization

It was held as the first competition of women's club championship in 2012, and was hosted by Japan Football Association and Japan Women's Football league. Fuji Television and affiliated, and Sankei Shimbun, Sankei Sports,, city of Saitama and Saitama Sports Commission supported the competition. Several companies such as, ASICS, Calbee and Nikon sponsored with the main sponsor .[1]

Participating teams

TeamTournament WonConfederation or FA
Olympique Lyonnais2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions LeagueUEFA (Europe)
Canberra United FC2011–12 W-LeagueFootball Federation Australia
INAC Kobe Leonessa2012 Nadeshiko LeagueJapan Football Association
NTV Beleza

Venues

Two venues for the competition and both are in Saitama.

Saitama
Urawa Komaba StadiumNACK5 Stadium Omiya
Capacity: 21,500Capacity: 15,500

Results

Semi-finals

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Final

GK 1
DF 2 Yukari Kinga
DF 5
DF 4 Asuna Tanaka
DF 22
MF 8 Homare Sawa
MF 10 Shinobu Ohno (c)
MF 7
FW 9 Nahomi Kawasumi
FW 21
FW 11 Megumi Takase
Substitutes:
DF 3
MF 6
FW 19
Manager:
Kei Hoshikawa
GK 30 Sarah Bouhaddi
DF 5 Laura Georges
DF 3 Wendie Renard
DF 11
DF 18 Sonia Bompastor (c)
MF 6
MF 10
MF 23 Camille Abily
FW 12 Élodie Thomis
FW 8 Lotta Schelin
MF 9
Substitutes:
FW 21
DF 17
FW 24
MF 15
Manager:
Patrice Lair
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  • Assistant referees:
  • Fourth official: Sachiko Yamagishi (Japan)

Awards

PrizePlayerClub
Most Valuable Player Corine Franco Lyon
Most Impressive Player Ji So-Yun Kobe
[2]

Goal Scorers

2 goals
1 goal

Own Goals

1 goal

Referees

Assistants:

Fourth:

Prize-pool

The total prize-pool was 100,000$.

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nadeshikoleague.jp/sc/2012/10/mobcastcup2012mobcastcupinternational-womens-club-championship-2012.html mobcast cup INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2012
  2. Web site: Lyon edge Kobe to win Int’l Women’s Club Championship . Japan Football Association . November 26, 2012 . December 7, 2012.