Kirin Cup

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The Kirin Cup is an annual football tournament organised in Japan by the Kirin Corporation. Participants are either club teams or national teams, but the Japan national team is always a participant. Since 1992 only national teams have entered this competition. Japan is the current champion.

1 2008
- 1.1 Results
2 2007
- 2.1 Results
3 2006
4 Winners/Finalists
5 Winners/Finalists as club competition
6 External links

[edit] 2008

The 18th Annual Kirin Cup features hosts Japan, Paraguay and Côte d'Ivoire. Japan won the tournament for the second year in a row, defeating Côte d'Ivoire on a goal by Keiji Tamada and drawing 0-0 with Paraguay. The opening match between the two visiting sides ended in a 1-1 draw.

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Japan	4	2	1	1	0	1	0	1
Paraguay	2	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
Côte d'Ivoire	1	2	0	1	1	1	2	-1

[edit] Results

22 May 2008	Côte d'Ivoire	1 – 1	Paraguay	Nissan Stadium, Yokohama Attendance: 5,197 Referee: Kazuhiko Matsumura
	Traoré 74'	(Report)	Bogado 78'

24 May 2008	Japan	1 – 0	Côte d'Ivoire	Toyota Stadium, Toyota Attendance: 40,710 Referee: Bruno Paixão
	Tamada 21'	(Report)

27 May 2008	Japan	0 – 0	Paraguay	Saitama Stadium, Saitama Attendance: 27,998 Referee: Paulo Manuel Gomes Costa

[edit] 2007

Colombia and Montenegro joined hosts Japan for the 17th annual Kirin Cup played in the first week of June. [1] Japan and Colombia used the tournament as a warm-up before their participations at Asian Cup finals and the 2007 edition of Copa America respectively. The winners received $100,000 US, with the runners-up and the third placed team each receiving $50,000 US and $10,000 US respectively.[2]

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Japan	4	2	1	1	0	2	0	+2
Colombia	4	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
Montenegro	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	-3

[edit] Results

1 June 2007	Japan	2 – 0	Montenegro	Shizuoka Stadium, Fukuroi Attendance: 28,635 Referee: Michael Svendsen
	Nakazawa 23' Takahara 38'

3 June 2007	Colombia	1 – 0	Montenegro	Matsumoto Stadium, Matsumoto Attendance: 10,070 Referee: Kenji Ogiya
	Falcão 33'

5 June 2007	Japan	0 – 0	Colombia	Saitama Stadium, Saitama Attendance: 45,091 Referee: Nicolai Volquartz

[edit] 2006

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Scotland	4	2	1	1	0	5	1	+4
Bulgaria	3	2	1	0	1	3	6	-3
Japan	1	2	0	1	1	1	2	-1

9 May 2006	Japan	1 – 2	Bulgaria	Nagai Stadium, Osaka Attendance: 44,851 Referee: Carlos Megia Davila
	Maki 76'	(Report)	S. Todorov 1' Yanev 90+1'

11 May 2006	Bulgaria	1 – 5	Scotland	Kobe Wing Stadium, Kobe Attendance: 5,780 Referee: Toru Kamikawa
	Y. Todorov 26'	(Report)	Boyd 13' 43' McFadden 69' Burke 77' 88'