The 2012 Japanese Super Cup was 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.^[1]

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

3 March 2012

13:35 JST

Kashiwa Reysol	2–1	FC Tokyo
Wagner 27' Leandro 45' (pen.)	Report	64' Aria

National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 35,453^[2]

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Kashiwa Reysol

FC Tokyo

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  39' LM 7 Hidekazu Otani  81' RW 10 Leandro Domigues 45' (pen.) LW 15 Jorge Wagner 27' CF 18 Junya Tanaka  68' CF 9 Hideaki Kitajima  68' Substitutes: GK 16 Koji Inada CM 17 An Yong-Hak  81' CB 6 Daisuke Nasu AM 8 Masakatsu Sawa  68' RW 29 Koki Mizuno CF 19 Masato Kudo CF 25 Ricardo Lobo  68' 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 64' LM 4 Hideto Takahashi  84' RW 18 Naohiro Ishikawa  57' LW 39 Tatsuya Yazawa  50'  72' CF 49 Lucas Severino Substitutes: GK 20 Shuichi Gonda CB 5 Kenichi Kaga RW 17 Hiroki Kawano  84' AM 22 Naotake Hanyu  72' CM 27 Sotan Tanabe CF 11 Kazuma Watanabe  57' CF 13 Sōta Hirayama Manager: Ranko Popović