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

• The participants were the champions of Europe, Australia, Japan and .

Team	Tournament Won	Confederation or FA
Olympique Lyonnais	2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League	UEFA (Europe)
Canberra United FC	2011–12 W-League	Football Federation Australia
INAC Kobe Leonessa	2012 Nadeshiko League	Japan Football Association
NTV Beleza

Venues

Two venues for the competition and both are in Saitama.

Saitama
Urawa Komaba Stadium	NACK5 Stadium Omiya
Capacity: 21,500	Capacity: 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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MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Shiho Ayukai (Japan) Naomi Nakano (Japan) Fourth official: Sachiko Yamagishi (Japan)

Awards

Prize	Player	Club
Most Valuable Player	Corine Franco	Lyon
Most Impressive Player	Ji So-Yun	Kobe

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Goal Scorers

2 goals

• Azusa Iwashimizu
• Asano Nagasato

1 goal

• Jennifer Bisset
• Michelle Heyman
• Hayley Raso
• Sonia Bompastor
• Corine Franco
• Louisa Nécib
• Kanako Ito
• Nanase Kiryu
• Shinobu Ohno
• Megumi Takase
• Ji So-Yun
• Lotta Schelin

Own Goals

1 goal

• Saori Ariyoshi

Referees

• Pannipar Kamnueng
• Sook-Hee Kim

Assistants:

• Rikako Arakawa
• Kumi Sunaga
• Hisae Yoshizawa
• Makoto Bozono
• Chie Ohata
• Mayumi Yonemura
• Shiho Ayukai
• Naomi Makino

Fourth:

• Etsuko Fukano
• Sachiko Yamagishi

Prize-pool

The total prize-pool was 100,000$.

• 1st 60,000$
• 2nd 30,000$
• 3rd 10,000$

External links

• International women's club football (Japanese)

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.