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: 일한여자리그 챔피언십[3]) is 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.

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History

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

2010

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.


27 March 2010
13:00 UTC+9
Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies 4 – 2 Daekyo Kangaroos Urawa Komaba Stadium, Saitama
Attendance: 1,823
Arakawa  29'
Niwata Goto  86'89'
report Pretinha  9'20'

2011

The second edition was moved to South Korea.


13 March 2011
13:00 UTC+9
Suwon FMC 0 – 2 NTV Beleza Ulsan Stadium, Ulsan
report (Japanese) Kiryu  73'
Ariyoshi  83'

References

  1. ^ "Japan and South Korea Women’s League Championship". Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies. March 27, 2010. http://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/reds-en/news/japan-and-south-korea-women%E2%80%99s-league-championship/. Retrieved September 1, 2011. 
  2. ^ a b "Other competitions" (in Japanese). Japan Women's Football League. http://www.nadeshikoleague.jp/sc/2010/index.html. Retrieved September 1, 2011. 
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  4. ^ "Other competitions" (in Japanese). Japan Women's Football League. http://www.nadeshikoleague.jp/sc/2010/index.html. Retrieved September 1, 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. March 27, 2010. http://www.eaff.com/eanews/news/item802.html. Retrieved September 1, 2011.