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The 91st Emperor's Cup (第91回天皇杯) was a regular edition of an annual Japanese national cup tournament. It started on 3 September 2011 and ended on 1 January 2012 with the final at National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, won by FC Tokyo 4–2 against Kyoto Sanga.

The cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2012 AFC Champions League.

Calendar

(*1)a total number of four games were postponed to 7 or 14 September due to tropical storm.
(*2)a total number of eight games were postponed to 12 October due to event clashes of quarterfinals of 2011 J.League Cup, and November 9 was reserved for Cerezo Osaka and Hokkaido University of Education Iwamizawa Campus in case of event clashes if Cerezo entered the 2011 AFC Champions League semi-finals (but game was not postponed as Cerezo was eliminated in quarter-finals).
(*3)Kashiwa Reysol's game was postponed to 21 December due to the participation in 2011 FIFA Club World Cup.

Participating clubs

Starting in the first round

Prefectural finals winners – 47 teams

• Hokkaidō – Hokkaido UE Iwamizawa
• Aomori – Hachinohe University
• Iwate – Grulla Morioka
• Miyagi – Sony Sendai*
• Akita – Blaublitz Akita
• Yamagata – Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine
• Fukushima – Fukushima United
• Ibaraki – University of Tsukuba
• Tochigi – Tochigi Uva
• Gunma – Arte Takasaki
• Saitama – Heisei International University
• Chiba – Kashiwa Reysol U-18
• Tokyo – Machida Zelvia
• Kanagawa – YSCC Yokohama
• Yamanashi – Yamanashi Gakuin University High School
• Nagano – Matsumoto Yamaga
• Niigata – Japan Soccer College
• Toyama – Toyama Shinjo Club
• Ishikawa – Zweigen Kanazawa
• Fukui – Maruoka Phoenix
• Shizuoka – Shizuoka Sangyo University
• Aichi – Chukyo University
• Mie – Suzuka Rampole
• Gifu – FC Gifu Second
• Shiga – Sagawa Shiga
• Kyoto – SP Kyoto
• Osaka – Hannan University
• Hyōgo – Sanyo Electric Sumoto SC
• Nara – Nara Club
• Wakayama – Arterivo Wakayama
• Tottori – Yonago Kita High School
• Shimane – Dezzolla Shimane
• Okayama – Fagiano Okayama Next
• Hiroshima – Hiroshima University of Economics
• Yamaguchi – Renofa Yamaguchi FC
• Kagawa – Kamatamare Sanuki
• Tokushima – Sanyo Electric Tokushima SC
• Ehime – Ehime FC Shimanami
• Kochi – Kōchi University
• Fukuoka – Fukuoka University
• Saga – Saga Lixil
• Nagasaki – V-Varen Nagasaki
• Kumamoto – Kumamoto Teachers SC
• Ōita – Hoyo AC Elan Ōita
• Miyazaki – Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University
• Kagoshima – FC Kagoshima
• Okinawa – Kaiho Bank SC

Prime Minister's Cup All Japan University Football Tournament winners – 1 team

• Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences

Starting in the second round

J.League Division 1 – 18 teams

• Vegalta Sendai
• Montedio Yamagata
• Kashima Antlers
• Kashiwa Reysol
• Omiya Ardija
• Urawa Red Diamonds
• Kawasaki Frontale
• Yokohama F. Marinos
• Ventforet Kofu
• Shimizu S-Pulse
• Júbilo Iwata
• Nagoya Grampus
• Albirex Niigata
• Cerezo Osaka
• Gamba Osaka
• Vissel Kobe
• Sanfrecce Hiroshima
• Avispa Fukuoka

J.League Division 2 – 20 teams

• Consadole Sapporo
• Mito HollyHock
• Tochigi SC
• Thespa Kusatsu
• JEF United Chiba
• FC Tokyo
• Tokyo Verdy
• Yokohama FC
• Shonan Bellmare
• Kataller Toyama
• FC Gifu
• Kyoto Sanga
• Fagiano Okayama
• Gainare Tottori
• Tokushima Vortis
• Ehime FC
• Giravanz Kitakyushu
• Sagan Tosu
• Roasso Kumamoto
• Oita Trinita

Japan Football League – 2 teams

• Honda Lock
• FC Ryukyu

※Clubs that occupied two top places at the end of the 17th round (11th week) of 2011 Japan Football League.

Matches

All matches are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

First round

Due to Tropical Storm Talas (Japanese: 台風12号, 2011 Japanese Typhoon 12), four matches were postponed.

Suzuka Rampole	1–0	Chukyo University
Masanori Murata 88'	Report

Note: The original schedule was 3 September 13:00 but postponed due to tropical storm.

Tochigi Uva	1–0	Kashiwa Reysol U-18
Wakabayashi 48'	Report

Yamanashi Gakuin University High School	2–5	Machida Zelvia
Yusei Kayanuma 10' Katsuhito Araki 90+3'	Report	Dimić 3' Katsumata 24', 43' Tsuda 27' Ōta 55'

Yonago Kita High School	1–3	Kamatamare Sanuki
Junya Kato 46'	Report	Okamoto 82', 83' Omo 90+2'

Note: The original schedule was 3 September 15:00 but postponed due to tropical storm.

Toyama Shinjo Club	1–0	Japan Soccer College
Tomohisa Ishikuro 75'	Report

Matsumoto Yamaga	3–0	Maruoka Phoenix
Sudo 39' Kijima 72', 82'	Report

University of Tsukuba	2–1	Heisei International University
Shuhei Akazaki 6' Misaki Uemura 81'	Report	Kota Ono 25'

Blaublitz Akita	13–0	Yamagata University School of Medicine
Miyoshi 13' Matsuda 26', 41', 56', 73', 75' Imai 30', 53' Higa 45+2', 61' Kawata 73' Kozawa 80' Chino 90+3'	Report

Arterivo Wakayama	0–5	SP Kyoto
	Report	Sakurai 40', 43' Otsuki 47' Hirai 68' Nakasuji 77'

Arte Takasaki	2–0	YSCC Yokohama
Yamada 3' Ito 30'	Report

Fukuoka University	2–0	Hoyo AC Elan Ōita
Ishizu 68', 88'	Report

Fagiano Okayama Next	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Renofa Yamaguchi FC
Okazaki 45+2' Kotera 106'	Report	Nakayama 89' Nakamura 103'
Penalties
Kadoshima Yamamoto Nishihara Kanemitsu Sakamoto	5–3	Ikarino Ito Suzuki Takata

Hannan University	0–2	Sagawa Shiga
	Report	Nobuhito Takahashi 36' 40' (o.g.)

F.C. Kagoshima	5–0	Saga LIXIL F.C.
Taniguchi 18' Tanoue 21' Chaen 25' Funakawa 29' Maeda 44'	Report

Nara Club	1–3	Sanyo Electric Sumoto S.C.
Hashigaito 89'	Report	Yuya Inagaki 8' Koichi Ota 83' Yusuke Inoue 90+3'

Hiroshima University of Economics	0–5	Zweigen Kanazawa
	Report	Hirabayashi 28', 32', 90+3' Saitou 53' Honda 90+1'

Note: The original schedule was 3 September 15:00 but postponed due to tropical storm.

Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University	5–1	Kumamoto Teachers
Mitsuru Murayama 29' 45' (o.g.) Atsuki Goryo 69' Hattoku Shimaya 84' Yoshitaka Fujiyama 85'	Report	Takahiro Masumura 89'

Kaiho Bank	0–1	V-Varen Nagasaki
	Report	Okamura 51'

Hokkaido University of Education Iwamizawa Campus	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences
Haruto Abe 19'	Report	Daiki Yamamoto 67'
Penalties
Ōnishi Fujima Hirose Uehara Uchida	5–4	Hamaue Sugawara Minaguchi Watanabe Ikenaga

Grulla Morioka	0–2	Sony Sendai
	Report	Aso 47' Morihara 82'

Sanyo Electric Tokushima S.C.	0–4	Kōchi University
	Report	Kei Fukumoto 23', 90+2' Ryobu Watabe 75' Kojiro Takeuchi 82'

Note: The original schedule was 3 September 13:00 and but postponed due to tropical storm. The original venue was Naruto Otsuka Sports Park Pocarisweat Stadium but changed as a result of the postponement.

FC Gifu Second	2–1	Shizuoka Sangyo University
Motonobu Hosono 32' Yuichi Endo 74'	Report	Yusuke Katayama 6'

Hachinohe University	2–6	Fukushima United
Kawamura 69' Hamamura 74'	Report	Ito 47' Kim 55', 76', 86' Shimizu 57' Kuno 90+1'

Dezzola Shimane	5–2 (a.e.t.)	Ehime FC Shimanami
Hirata 3', 114', 120+3' Sorayama 29', 106'	Report	Kitamori 40' Kashiwagi 43'

Second round

Nagoya Grampus	6–0	Suzuka Rampole
Burzanović 14', 35' Hashimoto 19' Arai 42' Tanaka 78' Taguchi 88'	Report

FC Gifu	0–1	Giravanz Kitakyushu
	Report	Ikemoto 6'

Kashiwa Reysol	2–0	Tochigi Uva
Masushima 4' Leandro 59'	Report

Ventforet Kofu	2–1	Machida Zelvia
Uchiyama 6' Paulinho 36'	Report	Suzuki 51'

Yokohama F. Marinos	3–1	Kamatamare Sanuki
Hyodo 86' Taniguchi 88' Oguro 90+3'	Report	Ishida 78'

Tochigi SC	2–1	Honda Lock
Choi 18' Kawahara 70'	Report	Yusuke Maeda 60'

Albirex Niigata	5–0	Toyama Shinjo Club
Lopes 17' Kawamata 21', 76' Kogure 23' Uchida 90+4'	Report

Matsumoto Yamaga	2–0	Yokohama FC
Katayama 53' Funayama 55'	Report

Kashima Antlers	2–0	University of Tsukuba
Tashiro 33' Osako 38'	Report

Kataller Toyama	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Sagan Tosu
Asahi 45+1' Funatsu 48' Kurobe 83'	Report	Noda 21' Arai 30' Yamase 66'
Penalties
Asahi Ōnishi Kurobe Hirano Yada	4–2	Meta Kuniyoshi Kim Ikeda

Montedio Yamagata	2–0	Blaublitz Akita
Shimomura 23' Hasegawa 38'	Report

Kyoto Sanga	3–0	SP Kyoto
Nakamura 38' Miyayoshi 58' Kubo 72'	Report

Kawasaki Frontale	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Arte Takasaki
Kobayashi 61' Tasaka 105'	Report	Doi 69'

Oita Trinita	1–0	Tokushima Vortis
Sakuda 2'	Report

Omiya Ardija	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Fukuoka University
Ueda 70'	Report	Tomohiro Tanaka 72'
Penalties
Mariano Watanabe Higashi Fujimoto	3–5	Suzu Nagatani Tamura Okada Kuroki

Shonan Bellmare	2–1	Fagiano Okayama Next
Maki 53' Sakamoto 77'	Report	Takeuchi 40'

Gamba Osaka	2–0	Sagawa Shiga
Kawanishi Kim	Report

Consadole Sapporo	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Mito HollyHock
Yokono 59' Sakaki 85'	Report	Ozawa 58' Romero Frank 88' Koike 118'

FC Tokyo	4–0	F.C. Kagoshima
Yazawa 14', 90' Morishige 30' Lucas 76'	Report

Vissel Kobe	8–0	Sanyo Electric Sumoto S.C.
Morioka 22', 32', 46' Matsuoka 26' Popó 31', 55' Park 58' Botti 68'	Report

Sanfrecce Hiroshima	4–2	Zweigen Kanazawa
Satō 2', 86' Yokotake 30' Mizumoto 45+2'	Report	Yamane 15' Hirabayashi 23'

Note: The venue of the match was originally planned to be Hiroshima Big Arch football ground 1 but changed on June 28.

Ehime FC	2–0	FC Ryukyu
Ikeda 27' Uchida 71'	Report

Urawa Red Diamonds	4–1	Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University
14' (o.g.) Mazola 18' Hara 55' Takasaki 76'	Report	Yoshitaka Fujiyama 10'

Tokyo Verdy	7–1	V-Varen Nagasaki
Maranhão 22', 57' Abe 38', 73' Tsuchiya 55' Kikuoka 69' Kobayashi 71'	Report	Iwama 20'

Cerezo Osaka	6–0	Hokkaido University of Education Iwamizawa Campus
24' (o.g.) Fabio Lopes 30', 78' Sugimoto 71' Komatsu 81' Otake 86'	Report

Thespa Kusatsu	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Fagiano Okayama
	Report	Sengoku 107'

Vegalta Sendai	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Sony Sendai
Ota 74' Muto 114'	Report	Taniike 79'

Avispa Fukuoka	3–0	Kōchi University
Nakamachi 14' Matsuura 31' Takahashi 64'	Report

Shimizu S-Pulse	2–0	FC Gifu Second
Takeuchi 44' Omae 45+1'	Report

Gainare Tottori	3–0	Roasso Kumamoto
Koné 8' Kim 75' Yoshino 86'	Report

Júbilo Iwata	3–0	Fukushima United
Arata 33', 71', 83'	Report

JEF United Chiba	1–0	Dezzola Shimane
Fujimoto 67'	Report

Third round

Nagoya Grampus	1–0	Giravanz Kitakyushu
Ogawa 57'	Report

Kashiwa Reysol	6–1	Ventforet Kofu
Jorge Wagner 10' Kudo 26' Kitajima 29' Hashimoto 37' Tanaka 67', 80'	Report	Yabu 13'

Note: The venue of the match was originally planned to be Kashiwanoha Park Stadium but changed due to stadium maintenance.

Yokohama F. Marinos	3–0	Tochigi SC
Oguro 33', 80' Nakamura 90+4'	Report

Albirex Niigata	0–1	Matsumoto Yamaga
	Report	Tatara 5'

Kashima Antlers	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Kataller Toyama
Koroki 28' Nozawa 101'	Report	Fukuda 42'

Montedio Yamagata	2–3	Kyoto Sanga
Hasegawa 7' Miyazawa 9'	Report	Miyayoshi 15', 44', 48'

Kawasaki Frontale	4–0	Oita Trinita
Kobayashi 25' Tasaka 55' Kusukami 77' Yajima 84'	Report

Fukuoka University	0–3 (a.e.t.)	Shonan Bellmare
	Report	Ohi 94' Takayama 109' Adiel 117'

Gamba Osaka	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Mito HollyHock
Kim 40' Sasaki 65'	Report	Ozawa 50' Suzuki 76' Koike 99'

FC Tokyo	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Vissel Kobe
Takahashi 13' Morishige 120+1'	Report	Komoto 37'

Sanfrecce Hiroshima	0–1	Ehime FC
	Report	Ishii 86'

Urawa Red Diamonds	2–1	Tokyo Verdy
Hara 56', 86'	Report	Apodi 64'

Cerezo Osaka	3–0	Fagiano Okayama
Bando 52', 90+3' Sugimoto 90+2'	Report

Vegalta Sendai	3–1	Avispa Fukuoka
Tamura 18', 22' Nakashima 82'	Report	Okamoto 68'

Shimizu S-Pulse	5–0	Gainare Tottori
Iwashita 27' Takahara 45+3' Sugiyama 70' Nagai 79' Yamamoto 81'	Report

Júbilo Iwata	0–1	JEF United Chiba
	Report	Yonekura 67'

Fourth round

Nagoya Grampus	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Kashiwa Reysol
Nagai 77', 96' Masukawa 88'	Report	Leandro Domingues 42', 115' Kudo 66'
Penalties
Fujimoto Alex Yoshimura Kanazaki K. Hashimoto Nagai Masukawa Chiyotanda Narazaki Córdoba	9–8	Leandro Domingues Sawa Otani Kondo Mizuno Kudo W. Hashimoto Masushima Kitajima Sugeno

Note: The original schedule was December 17 13:00 but changed due to Reysol's participation in 2011 FIFA Club World Cup.

Yokohama F. Marinos	4–0	Matsumoto Yamaga
Ono 28', 73', 75' Nakamura 87'	Report

Kashima Antlers	0–1	Kyoto Sanga
	Report	Miyayoshi 59'

Kawasaki Frontale	0–1	Shonan Bellmare
	Report	Takayama 63'

Mito HollyHock	0–1	FC Tokyo
	Report	Shiotani 8' (o.g.)

Ehime FC	1–3	Urawa Red Diamonds
Fukuda 90+4'	Report	Márcio Richardes 9' Hara 38' Kashiwagi 77'

Cerezo Osaka	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Vegalta Sendai
Murata 115'	Report	Muto 98'
Penalties
Kiyotake Kim Maruhashi Ogihara	4–2	Kamata Akamine Muto Matsushita

Shimizu S-Pulse	2–0	JEF United Chiba
Brosque 49' Ito 62'	Report

Quarter-finals

Nagoya Grampus	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Yokohama F. Marinos
	Report
Penalties
Fujimoto Isomura Ogawa Yoshimura Córdoba	3–4	Nakamura Kurihara Kobayashi Kanai

Kyoto Sanga	1–0	Shonan Bellmare
Dutra 40'	Report

FC Tokyo	1–0	Urawa Red Diamonds
Ishikawa 20'	Report

Cerezo Osaka	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Shimizu S-Pulse
Kim Bo-Kyung 11' Kiyotake 93'	Report	Ono 23' Takagi 103'
Penalties
Kiyotake Kim Bo-Kyung Kuaata Maruhashi Bando Yamaguchi Komatsu	6–5	Omae Brosque Ito Iwashita Bosnar Takagi Yamamoto

Semi-finals

Yokohama F. Marinos	2–4 (a.e.t.)	Kyoto Sanga
Watanabe 42' Nakazawa 90+5'	Report	Kudo 50' Dutra 72' Kubo 116' Komai 120'

FC Tokyo	1–0	Cerezo Osaka
Yazawa 77'	Report

Final

Kyoto Sanga	2–4	FC Tokyo
Nakayama 13' Kubo 71'	Report	Konno 15' Morishige 36' Lucas 42', 66'

• First final to feature two second-tier teams and first to feature such team since 1994 final.
• Third time a second-tier champion wins the final since 1981 and 1982 finals.
• Nakayama's goal was the first to be scored in the year 2012.

External links

• Official site of the 91st Emperor's Cup (in Japanese)

References

1. ^ 天皇杯宮城県代表にソニー仙台 [Sony Sendai as the Miyagi representative for Emperor's Cup]. Sports Nippon (in Japanese). June 30, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
2. 第91回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会 宮城県代表チームにソニー仙台ＦＣが決定 [The 91st Emperor's Cup: Sony Sendai designated as the Miyagi representative]. Japan Football Association (in Japanese). June 30, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
3. ^ 第91回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会 １回戦(マッチナンバー【1】【4】【16】【21】)順延に伴うチケットの取り扱いについて [The 91st Emperor's Cup first round: About the tickets for the postponed matches (match number 1, 4, 16 and 21)] (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 8 September 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
4. (2011-06-28)第91回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会 ２回戦(マッチナンバー【45】)試合会場変更のお知らせ [A venue change of the 91st Emperor's Cup second round (match number 58)] (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
5. 第91回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会 ３回戦 柏レイソル 対 ヴァンフォーレ甲府戦(マッチナンバー【58】)試合会場変更について [A venue change of the 91st Emperor's Cup third round: Kashiwa Reysol vs. Ventforet Kofu (match number 58)] (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
6. 第91回天皇杯全日本サッカー選手権大会 ４回戦 名古屋グランパス 対 柏レイソル(マッチナンバー【73】)試合日程変更のお知らせ [A schedule change of the 91st Emperor's Cup fourth round: Kashiwa Reysol vs. Nagoya Grampus (match number 73)] (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. 3 December 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
7. "F東京はOGを守り切り、水戸に勝利" [FC Tokyo hold onto victory against Mito thanks to own goal] (in Japanese). Gekisaka. 17 December 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011.

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