Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship

Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship[1] (Japanese: 日韓女子リーグチャンピオンシップ,[2] Korean: 한일여자리그 챔피언십[3]) was a women's association football competition between the clubs of Nadeshiko League (Japan Women's Football League division 1) winners and WK-League (Korea Republic Women's Football League) winners.

History edit

The first edition was held in March 2010, where the two league winners of 2009 season competed.[2] This competition aims at being developed into women's version of AFC Champions League, that is, many other Asian countries taking part.[4]

Results edit

2010 edit

The first edition was held at the home ground of the 2009 Japanese champion Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies. Urawa Reds reversed the one-goal behind Daekyo Kangaroos in the last five minutes[5] and won the title.

Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies  4–2  Daekyo Kangaroos
Arakawa   29'
Niwata   85'
Goto   86', 89'
report Pretinha   9', 20'
Attendance: 1,823

2011 edit

The second edition was moved to South Korea.

Suwon FMC  0–2  Nippon TV Beleza
report (Japanese) Kiryu   73'
Ariyoshi   83'
Attendance: 400

2012 edit

The third edition was held at the home ground of Japanese champion INAC Kobe Leonessa.[6][7]

INAC Kobe Leonessa  3–0  Goyang Daekyo Noonnoppi
Ohno   8'
Kyokawa   51', 87'
report (Japanese)
Attendance: 2,219

References edit

  1. ^ "Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship". Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies. 27 March 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Other competitions". Japan Women's Football League (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  3. ^ ":: www.wkleague.co.kr :: wk리그 공식 홈페이지". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  4. ^ "Other competitions". Japan Women's Football League (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2011. 本大会は、アジアの女子サッカーリーグを代表する日本と韓国の女子サッカーリーグチャンピオン同士の試合を通じて、アジアの女子サッカーを牽引していく大会とし、近い将来この大会が多くのアジア諸国が参加するACL女子版へと発展していくことを目標として開催いたします。
  5. ^ "With 5 minutes left URAWA REDS LADIES come from behind to win the title of "Queens of Japan Korea": Japan Korea Championship". East Asian Football Federation. 27 March 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  6. ^ 2012日韓女子リーグチャンピオンシップ開催のお知らせ [About 2012 Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship] (in Japanese). Japan Women's Football League. 9 February 2011. Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  7. ^ "15/03/2012 INAC beat Korean champions in Japan-Korea Women's Championship | News | Japan Football Association".