2012 Peace Cup

2012 Peace Cup
2012 Peace Cup Suwon
Tournament details
Host country South Korea
Dates 19 July – 22 July
Teams 4 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Hamburg (1st title)
Runners-up Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Tournament statistics
Matches played 4
Goals scored 10 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s) Mitchell Schet (2 goals)
Best player Marcus Berg (Hamburg)

The 2012 Peace Cup was an invitational friendly football tournament that was held from July 19 to July 22. It was the fifth Peace Cup and was held in Suwon, South Korea.

Format

The 2012 tournament featured some major changes compared to previous tournaments. The number of teams participating was reduced from eight to four. Therefore, the teams would immediately be playing one another in sudden death mode. The draws for these pairings were decided via polls on the official website. Due to these changes, the tournament would last four days, rather than ten as previous tournaments did. All matches were played in the Suwon World Cup Stadium.

As always, the host of the tournament was South Korean club Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. The other teams were partly chosen because of the South Korean football players they have in their squads.

Venues

Suwon
Suwon World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 43,959

Teams

Matches

Match A

July 19, 2012
19:00 KST
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma South Korea 1–0 England Sunderland
Éverton  29'
Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon
Attendance: 19,074
Referee: Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)

Match B

July 20, 2012
19:30 KST
Hamburg Germany 2–1 Netherlands Groningen
Aogo  15' (pen.)
Iličević  80'
Schet  28'

Third place play-off

July 22, 2012
16:30 KST
Sunderland England 3–2 Netherlands Groningen
Wickham  20'
Campbell  89'
Noble  90'
Suk Hyun-Jun  38'
Schet  45'

Final

July 22, 2012
19:30 KST
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma South Korea 0–1 Germany Hamburg
Berg  81'

Statistics

Goalscorers

2 goals
1 goal

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