(Highlights of Yokohama F-Marinos come-back victory against Kashima Antlers at the NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium. Having taken a first half lead through a Shingo Hyodo strike, Marinos were staring at defeat as Yasushi Endo and Juninho put the away side in the lead. Two goals in the last ten minutes from Manabu Saito and Masashi Oguro gave Marinos the victory, however, and they now sit fourth in Group B at the midway point of the league stage)
| Group A | |||||
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Kawasaki Frontale | 0 |  |
Urawa Red Diamonds Kashiwagi 32′ Ugajin 57′, 82′ |
3 |
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Cerezo Osaka Branquinho 27′ Kim Bo-Kyung 90′+5 |
2 |  |
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Sato 30′ |
1 |
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Sagan Tosu Inuzuka 12′, 65′ Hayasaka 62′ |
3 |  |
Jubilo Iwata Matsuoka 52′ Yamada 88′ |
2 |
| Group B | |||||
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Omiya Ardija Kim Y-G 53′ |
1 |  |
Consadole Sapporo Maeda 88′ |
1 |
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Vissel Kobe Matsumura 64′ |
1 |  |
Shimizu S-Pulse Kobayashi 55′ Takagi 83′ |
2 |
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Yokohama F-Marinos Hyodo 36′ Saito 83′ Oguro 86′ |
3 |  |
Kashima Antlers Endo 58′ Juninho 68′ |
2 |
(Matches played 16 May 2012. This was a bye week for Group A’s Vegalta Sendai and Group B’s Albirex Niigata, who return to Yamazaki Nabisco Cup action on 6 June)
| Group A | ||||||||||
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
| 1 | Jubilo Iwata | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 9 | |
| 2 | Cerezo Osaka | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | |
| 3 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | +0 | 6 | |
| 4 | Sagan Tosu | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | +0 | 6 | |
| 5 | Kawasaki Frontale | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 4 | |
| 6 | Vegalta Sendai | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 | |
| 7 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 1 |
| Group B | ||||||||||
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
| 1 | Kashima Antlers | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 9 | |
| 2 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 9 | |
| 3 | Albirex Niigata | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 6 | |
| 4 | Yokohama F-Marinos | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 4 | |
| 5 | Consadole Sapporo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 4 | |
| 6 | Omiya Ardija | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 2 | |
| 7 | Vissel Kobe | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 0 |
