2012 Hawaiian Islands Invitational

The 2012 Hawaiian Islands Invitational was an inter-confederation association football tournament contested in February 2012 in the state of Hawaii, United States, between 4 different clubs from the United States, Japan, South Korea and Australia. It is considered to be the successor to the now-defunct Pan-Pacific Championship.^[1]

2012 Hawaiian Islands Invitational

Tournament details
Host country	United States
Dates	February 23–25
Teams	4 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Busan IPark (1st title)
Runners-up	Yokohama FC
Third place	Colorado Rapids
Fourth place	Melbourne Heart
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Goals scored	7 (1.75 per match)
Attendance	34,922 (8,731 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Hiroaki Namba (2 goals)

Teams

The 4 teams accepted the invitation and contested the tournament were:^[2]

• Colorado Rapids^[3] – Major League Soccer
• Melbourne Heart FC^[4] – A-League
• Yokohama FC – J. League Division 2
• Busan IPark – K-League

Venue

The venue for the 2012 Hawaiian Islands Invitational is Aloha Stadium, a 50,000 seat multi-purpose stadium in the city of Honolulu. It has an artificial FieldTurf surface which replaced the original AstroTurf in 2003. It is currently hosts to the Hawaii Warriors in the NCAA, and has played host to the Hawai'i Bowl since 2002. It was also the venue for the inaugural Pan-Pacific Championship in 2008.

Honolulu
Aloha Stadium
Capacity: 50,000
Location of Hawaii in the United States.	Honolulu Location of the host city of the 2012 Hawaiian Islands Invitational.

Matches

Semi-finals

23 February 2012

18:00 UTC−10

Busan IPark	0–0	Melbourne Heart
	Report
Penalties
Kwang-Hee Dong-Min Jong-Won Mota Fágner Ji-Ho Ji-Hoon	4–3	Z. Walker Bosnjak Groenwald Paterson Trifiro Gray Grossman

Aloha Stadium, Honolulu

Attendance: 7,388

Referee: Hilario Grajeda

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23 February 2012

20:30 UTC−10

Yokohama FC	2–1	Colorado Rapids
Namba 57', 64'	Report	Moor 73'

Aloha Stadium, Honolulu

Attendance: 7,388

Referee: Jair Marrufo

Third place play-off

25 February 2012

17:00 UTC−10

Melbourne Heart	0–1	Colorado Rapids
	Report	Cascio 30'

Aloha Stadium, Honolulu

Attendance: 10,073

Referee: Ricardo Salazar

Final

25 February 2012

19:30 UTC−10

Busan IPark	3–0	Yokohama FC
Seung-Hwan 14' Sang-Hyub 45' Fágner 70'	Report

Aloha Stadium, Honolulu

Attendance: 10,073

Referee: Baldomero Toledo

2012 Hawaiian Islands Invitational champions
Busan IPark 1st title