2012 Copa Claro, Finals, Doubles
David Marrero /  Fernando Verdasco defeated  Michal Mertiňák /  André Sá 6–4, 6–4


2012 Copa Claro – Doubles
Oliver Marach and Leonardo Mayer were the defending champions but decided not to participate. David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco won the title after defeating Michal Mertiňák and André Sá 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2012 Copa Claro – Singles
David Ferrer won the tournament winning the final against the defending champion Nicolás Almagro by 4–6, 6–3, 6–2.


2012 Copa Colombia
The 2012 Copa Colombia, officially the 2012 Copa Postobón for sponsorship reasons, was the 10th edition of the Copa Colombia, the national cup competition for clubs of DIMAYOR. It began on February 14 and ended on November 7. The tournament comprised a total of 36 teams. The winner earned a berth to the 2013 Copa Sudamericana.


2012 Copa Colombia, Group phase
The 36 teams are divided into six groups based on each separate region of Colombia. The group winners and runners-up advance to the Round of 16, along with the four best third-placed teams. The matches were played from February 14 to June 21.


2012 Copa Colombia, Group phase, Group D
Comprises teams from the capital district of Bogotá and Soacha.


2012 Copa Colombia, Group phase, Group F
Comprises teams in the Coffee Zone, Great Tolima, and Zipaquirá town.


2012 Copa Colombia, Knockout phase
All ties in the knockout phase are played in two-legged format. In case of a tie in points and goal difference (i.e., aggregate score), neither the away goals rule nor extra time is applied, and the tie is decided by a penalty shoot-out.


2012 Copa Colombia, Knockout phase, Bracket
Teams playing the second leg at home marked by †. This is determined by which team have the better overall record up to the stage they meet each other, except in the round of 16 where the group winners automatically play the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Colombia, Knockout phase, Round of 16
First legs: August 8, 9, 15; Second legs: August 22 and 23.


2012 Copa Colombia, Knockout phase, Quarterfinals
First legs: September 5, 6 and 12; Second legs: September 12 and 19.


2012 Copa Constitució
The 2012 Copa Constitució was the twentieth season of Andorra's football knockout tournament. The competition began on 15 January 2012 with the matches of the first elimination round and ended in May 2012 with the Final. UE Sant Julià are the defending champions. The winners earned a place in the first qualifying round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.


2012 Copa Constitució, Results, Preliminary round
This round will be entered by the bottom four from the ten 2011–12 Segona Divisió teams at the time of the mid-season break: Penya Encarnada d'Andorra, FS La Massana, Principat B and Atlètic Club d'Escaldes. The matches will be played on 15 January 2012.


2012 Copa Constitució, Results, First elimination round
This round will be entered by the top six from the ten 2011–12 Segona Divisió teams at the time of the mid-season break: Lusitanos B, UE Extremenya, FC Encamp, UE Santa Coloma B, Casa Estrella del Benfica and FC Santa Coloma B and will join the winners of the preliminary elimination round. The matches will be played on 22 January 2012.


2012 Copa Constitució, Results, Second elimination round
The teams from 2011–12 Primera Divisió placed fifth to eighth after 10 rounds played – Inter Club d'Escaldes, CE Principat, UE Engordany and FC Rànger's – enter in this round and will join the winners of the first elimination round. For each match, one Segona Divisió and one Primera Divisió team have been drawn together. The matches will be played on 29 January 2012.


2012 Copa Constitució, Results, Third elimination round
The winners from the previous round will compete in this round together with the teams from Primera Divisió placed first to fourth after 10 rounds played – FC Santa Coloma, FC Lusitanos, UE Sant Julià, and UE Santa Coloma. The first legs will be played on 5 and 12 February 2012, while the second legs took place on 19 February 2012.


2012 Copa Constitució, Results, Semifinals
The first legs were played on 6 May 2012 while the second legs were played on 13 May 2012.


2012 Copa Euskal Herria (women's football)
The 2012 Copa de Fútbol Femenino de Euskal Herria was the second edition of this competition organized by the Basque Country Football Federation, featuring eleven clubs from Euskadi and Navarra playing in Primera and Segunda plus a Northern Basque Country selection. It ran from May 2 to August 26, 2012.


2012 Copa Euskal Herria (women's football)
Real Sociedad defeated defending champion Athletic Bilbao in the final, played in Beasain, to win the competition for the first time. Añorga KKE and SD Lagunak also reached the semifinals.


2012 Copa Euskal Herria (women's football), Results, First Round
The matches were played on 2 May, 4 and 16 June 2012.


2012 Copa Euskal Herria (women's football), Results, Quarter-finals
The matches were played on 15, 19 and 21 August 2012.


2012 Copa Euskal Herria (women's football), Results, Semifinals
The matches were played on 22 and 23 August 2012.


2012 Copa Federación
The 2012 Copa Federación was the 1st Peruvian football championship contested by the winners of Primera División and the Copa Inca. The match was originally scheduled to take place on August 1, 2012 but was postponed by the Peruvian Federation due to overscheduling. The match took place on September 9, 2012.


2012 Copa Fiat Brasil season
The 2012 Copa Fiat Brasil  season was the third Copa Fiat Brasil season. It began on 3 June at  Londrina and ended on November 4 at Velopark, after 12 races to be held at six meetings. In 2012 the category was renamed to Copa Fiat Brasil.


2012 Copa Fiat Brasil season
Cacá Bueno won the championship for the third time, after beat Andre Bragantini for six points.


2012 Copa Fiat Brasil season, Teams and drivers
All cars are powered by FPT engines and use Fiat Linea chassis.


2012 Copa Libertadores
The 2012 Copa Libertadores de América (officially the 2012 Copa Santander Libertadores for sponsorship reasons) was the 53rd edition of the Copa Libertadores de América, South America's premier international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. It ran from January 24 to July 4, 2012. Santos were the defending champions, but lost to Corinthians in the semifinals.


2012 Copa Libertadores
São Paulo-based club Corinthians won the competition, with an undefeated campaign, after defeating six-time champion Boca Juniors in the finals. It is Corinthians' first Libertadores title. By winning the competition, Corinthians won the right to play in the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2013 Recopa Sudamericana.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on November 25, 2011, at 15:00 UTC−03:00, in Luque, Paraguay.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Draw
For the first stage, each of the six ties contains one team from each pot. For the second stage, each of the eight groups contains one team from each pot. Teams from the same association in Pots 1 and 3 cannot be placed in the same group. However, a first stage winner may be drawn with a team from the same association in the second stage.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Draw
As per agreement when deciding the seeding for the 2011 Copa Libertadores, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay all had their berth 1 teams be seeded teams for 2012 instead of the berth 1 teams from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela for 2011.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Draw
† Teams had not yet fully qualified to the specific berth when the draw took place.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Schedule
All dates listed are Wednesdays, but matches may be played on the day before (Tuesdays) and after (Thursdays) as well.


2012 Copa Libertadores, First stage
The First Stage, played in home-and-away two-legged format, began on January 24 and ended on February 2. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Second stage
The second stage, played in home-and-away round-robin format, began on February 7 and ended on April 19. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Round of 16.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages
The last four stages of the tournament (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals), played in home-and-away two-legged format, form a single-elimination tournament, contested by the sixteen teams which advance from the Second Stage.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Seeding
The 16 qualified teams are seeded in the knockout stages according to their results in the second stage, with the group winners seeded 1–8, and the group runners-up seeded 9–16. The teams were ranked by: 1. Points (Pts); 2. Goal difference (GD); 3. Goals scored (GF); 4. Away goals (AG); 5. Drawing of lots.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Round of 16
The Round of 16 began on April 25 and ended on May 10. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Quarter-finals
The Quarter-finals began on May 16 and ended on May 24. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Semi-finals
The Semifinals began on June 13 and ended on June 21. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Finals
The Finals were played over two legs, with the higher-seeded team playing the second leg at home. If the teams were tied on points and goal difference at the end of regulation in the second leg, the away goals rule would not be applied and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the title would be decided by penalty shootout.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Awards, Fair play award
The Samsung Fair Play Trophy was awarded to Brazilian club Corinthians.


2012 Copa Libertadores, Notes
Brazilian coach Ricardo Ferretti sent a team of substitutes of Tigres UANL, and was heavily criticized by the Latin press that claimed that he had "ignored" the competition.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina
The 2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina was the fourth edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina, CONMEBOL's premier annual international women's football club tournament. São José were the defending champions.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina
Colo Colo won the title after a penalty shootout in the final, and became the first non-Brazilian team to win the tournament. The topscorer award was given to Cristiane for a second time and the best player award was won by Karen Araya from Colo Colo.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina
On 28 September 2012 it was confirmed that all matches were to be played in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Qualification and format
The format is the same as in 2011 with twelve teams being divided in three groups of four teams. The group winners and best second-placed team advance to the semi-finals.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Venues
Three cities host matches in this year's edition: Recife, Vitória and Caruaru.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina, First stage
The group winner and the best runners-up advanced to the semifinals. The draw was held on 9 October 2012. A list of fixtures was announced on 10 October 2012.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina, First stage
If still tied the organisers may decide how to proceed. In case two team are tied after having played each other the last matchday, the tie is decided by a penalty shootout.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina, First stage, Ranking of second place-finishers
In the ranking of group runners-ups all matches do count towards the ranking.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Final stages
Per draw Group A and B winners met with the best second-place finisher meeting Group C winner in the semi-finals. Should however two Brazilian teams advance to the semi-finals, those two would play each other regardless.


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals
The 2012 Copa Libertadores de América Finals were the final two-legged tie that decided the winner of the 2012 Copa Libertadores de América, the 53rd edition of the Copa Libertadores de América, South America's premier international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals
It was the fourth Libertadores decisive-match Final to be held at the Pacaembu as well as the tenth Final to be held in São Paulo and the seventeenth Final to be held in Brazil. While Corinthians progressed to the knockout stages by finishing top of their group, Boca progressed to the knockout stages by finishing runners-up of their group. Boca then beat Unión Española, Fluminense and Universidad de Chile to reach the finals, while Corinthians knocked out Emelec, Vasco da Gama and defending champions Santos.


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals
In the first leg of the final on 27 June at the Estadio Alberto J. Armando (La Bombonera), Boca Juniors took the lead with a goal from Facundo Roncaglia after 73 minutes when he drove the ball high into the net. Corinthians equilised in the 85th minute when Romarinho lobbed the ball over fallen Boca Juniors goalkeeper Agustín Orión with the game finishing at 1–1.


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals
In the second leg of the final on 4 July at the Estádio Municipal Paulo Machado de Carvalho (Pacaembu), Emerson Sheik scored two second half goals to give Corinthians a 2–0 win. As a result, Corinthians won their first Copa Libertadores, and finished the tournament undefeated. As winners, Corinthians represented CONMEBOL at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup, in which they entered at the semifinal stage  and made it to the final, where they defeated Chelsea 1–0. They are also playing against 2012 Copa Sudamericana winners São Paulo in the 2013 Recopa Sudamericana.


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals, Background
To reach the finals, in the knockout phase Boca defeated Unión Española, Fluminense, and Universidad de Chile (2–0 on aggregate score), while Corinthians overcame Emelec, Vasco da Gama, and the defending champions Santos (2–1 on aggregate).


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals, Background
Boca and Corinthians reached the final having already lost out in their domestic and state leagues respectively (the Torneo Clausura de la Primera División and Paulistão respectively). But Boca having also reached the final of their domestic cup competition (the Copa Argentina), that will play against Racing on August 8 (in other words, after these finals). Meanwhile, Corinthians (that, like the others Brazilians teams in this Libertadores, didn't play their domestic cup – Copa do Brasil – because of schedule conflicts) reached the final occupying 17th place of their domestic league (the Brasileirão).


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals, Background
In their most recent Libertadores finals, Boca won in 2007 to Grêmio 5–0 (3–0 in Buenos Aires, 2–0 in Porto Alegre). While Corinthians had never played a Libertadores/Copa de Campeones finals before, Boca have played in nine Libertadores/Copa de Campeones finals, winning six (1977, 1978, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007) and losing three (1963, 1979 and 2004).


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals, Background
The two clubs have met each other twice in Americas before, with Boca winning 4–2 on aggregate in the round of 16 of the 1991 Copa Libertadores, and in the group stage of the 2000 Copa Mercosur, with Boca victory 3–0 in Buenos Aires, and a 2–2 draw in São Paulo (as Boca progressed in the competition – would be later eliminated by Atlético Mineiro in quarter-finals -, Corinthians was eliminated in this stage).


2012 Copa Libertadores Finals, Rules
The final is played over two legs; home and away. The higher seeded team plays the second leg at home. The team that accumulates the most points —three for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss— after the two legs is crowned the champion. Should the two teams be tied on points after the second leg, the team with the best goal difference wins. If the two teams have equal goal difference, the away goals rule is not applied, unlike the rest of the tournament. Extra time is played, which consists of two 15-minute halves. If the tie is still not broken, a penalty shootout ensues according to the Laws of the Game.


2012 Copa Libertadores first stage
The First Stage of the 2012 Copa Santander Libertadores de América ran from January 24 to February 2, 2012 (first legs: January 24–26; second legs: January 31–February 2).


2012 Copa Libertadores first stage, Format
The twelve teams were drawn into six ties on November 25, 2011 in Asunción.


2012 Copa Libertadores first stage, Format
Teams played in two-legged ties on a home-away basis. Each team earned 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The following criteria was used for breaking ties on points:


2012 Copa Libertadores first stage, Format
The six winners advanced to the second stage to join the 26 automatic qualifiers.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages
The knockout stages of the 2012 Copa Santander Libertadores de América consisted of four stages:


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Format
The group winners and runners-up of the second stage qualified for the knockout stages. The sixteen teams played a single-elimination tournament. In each stage, teams played in two-legged ties on a home-away basis, with the higher-seeded team playing the second leg at home. Each team earned 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The following criteria were used for breaking ties on points, except for the final:


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Format
For the final, the first tiebreaker was goal difference. If tied on goal difference, the away goals rule would not be applied, and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the title would be decided by penalty shootout.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Format
If two teams from the same association reached the semifinals, they would be forced to play each other.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Seeding
The 16 qualified teams are seeded in the knockout stages according to their results in the second stage, with the group winners seeded 1–8, and the group runners-up seeded 9–16. The teams were ranked by: 1. Points (Pts); 2. Goal difference (GD); 3. Goals scored (GF); 4. Away goals (AG); 5. Drawing of lots.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Bracket
In each tie, the higher-seeded team played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Round of 16, Match D
Tied on points 3–3, Universidad de Chile won on goal difference.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Round of 16, Match G
Tied on points 3–3, Vasco da Gama won on penalties.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Quarterfinals, Match S4
Tied on points 2–2, Universidad de Chile won on penalties.


2012 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Finals
The Finals were played over two legs, with the higher-seeded team playing the second leg at home. If the teams were tied on points and goal difference at the end of regulation in the second leg, the away goals rule would not be applied and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the title would be decided by penalty shootout.


2012 Copa Libertadores second stage
The second stage of the 2012 Copa Santander Libertadores de América ran from February 7 to April 19, 2012 (match days: February 7–9, 14–16, 21–23, March 6–8, 13–15, 20–22, 27–29, April 3–5, 10–12, 17–19).


2012 Copa Libertadores second stage, Format
Twenty-six teams qualified directly into this round, to be joined by the six winners of the first stage. The thirty-two teams were drawn into eight groups of four on November 25, 2011, in Asunción.


2012 Copa Libertadores second stage, Format
The teams in each group played each other in a double round-robin format, playing the other teams in the group once at home and once away. Each team earned 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The following criteria were used for breaking ties on points:


2012 Copa Libertadores second stage, Format
The top two teams from each group advanced to the round of 16.


2012 Copa Perú
The 2012 Copa Perú season (Spanish: Copa Perú 2012), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football, started on February.


2012 Copa Perú
The tournament has 5 stages. The first four stages are played as mini-league round-robin tournaments, except for third stage in region IV, which is played as a knockout stage. The final stage features two knockout rounds and a final four-team group stage to determine the two promoted teams.


2012 Copa Perú
The 2012 Peru Cup started with the District Stage (Spanish: Etapa Distrital) on February. The next stage was the Provincial Stage (Spanish: Etapa Provincial) which started on June. The tournament continued with the Departamental Stage (Spanish: Etapa Departamental) on July. The Regional Stage follow in September. The National Stage (Spanish: Etapa Nacional) starts in November. The winner of the National Stage will be promoted to the First Division and the runner-up will be promoted to the Second Division.


2012 Copa Perú, Department Stage
Department Stage: 2012 Ligas Departamentales del Peru and 2012 Ligas Superiores del Peru


2012 Copa Perú, Department Stage
The following list shows the teams that qualified for the Regional Stage.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage
Each region had two teams qualify for the next stage. The playoffs only determined the respective regional winners.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region I
Region I includes qualified teams from Amazonas, Lambayeque, Tumbes and Piura region.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region II
Region II includes qualified teams from Ancash, Cajamarca, La Libertad and San Martín region.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region III
Region III includes qualified teams from Loreto and Ucayali region.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region IV
Region IV includes qualified teams from Lima and Callao region.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region V
Region V includes qualified teams from Junín, Pasco and Huánuco region.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region VI
Region VI includes qualified teams from Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Ica region. Two teams qualified from this stage.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region VII
Region VII includes qualified teams from Arequipa, Moquegua and Tacna region.


2012 Copa Perú, Regional Stage, Region VIII
Region VIII includes qualified teams from Apurimac, Cusco, Madre de Dios and Puno region.


2012 Copa Perú, National Stage
The National Stage starts on November. This stage has two knockout rounds and four-team group stage. The winner will be promoted to the 2013 Torneo Descentralizado and the runner-up of the National Stage will be promoted to the 2013 Peruvian Segunda División.


2012 Copa San Juan Gobierno
The 2012 Copa San Juan Gobierno was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in San Juan, Argentina between 8 and 14 October 2012.


2012 Copa San Juan Gobierno, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2012 Copa San Juan Gobierno, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2012 Copa San Juan Gobierno – Doubles
Martín Alund and Horacio Zeballos won the final by defeating Nicholas Monroe and Simon Stadler 3–6, 6–2, [14–12].


2012 Copa San Juan Gobierno – Singles
Thiemo de Bakker won the final 6–2, 3–6, 6–2 against Martín Alund.


2012 Copa Sevilla
The 2012 Copa Sevilla was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 15th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Seville, Spain between 10 and 16 September 2012.


2012 Copa Sevilla, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2012 Copa Sevilla, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw:


2012 Copa Sevilla – Doubles
Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava and Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo were the defending champions but decided not to participate. Nikola Ćirić and Boris Pašanski won the title, defeating Stephan Fransen and Jesse Huta Galung 5–7, 6–4, [10–6] in the final.


2012 Copa Sevilla – Singles
Daniel Gimeno-Traver successfully defended his title, defeating Tommy Robredo 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


2012 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas
The 2012 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 15th edition of the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, and was on the International category of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place at the Club Campestre El Rancho in Bogotá, Colombia, from February 13 through February 19, 2012. Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino won the singles title.


2012 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2012 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas – Doubles
Edina Gallovits-Hall and Anabel Medina Garrigues are the defending champions, but Medina Garrigues decided to participate instead at the 2012 Qatar Ladies Open. Edina Gallovits-Hall choose to participate with Karin Knapp, but they lost in the semifinals.


2012 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas – Doubles
Eva Birnerová and Alexandra Panova won the title, they defeated Mandy Minella and Stefanie Vögele in the final, 6–2, 6–2.


2012 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas – Singles
Lourdes Domínguez Lino was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Mariana Duque-Mariño. Lara Arruabarrena Vecino won the title, defeating Alexandra Panova in the final with the score of 6–2, 7–5. All seeded players lost in the first or second round.


2012 Copa Sudamericana
The 2012 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes (officially the 2012 Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana de Clubes for sponsorship reasons) was the 11th edition of the Copa Sudamericana, South America's secondary international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The tournament was expanded from 39 teams to 47 teams, allowing the eight associations other than Argentina and Brazil to each enter four teams instead of three teams. Universidad de Chile were the defending champions, but lost to eventual champion, São Paulo in the quarterfinals.


2012 Copa Sudamericana
Brazilian club São Paulo were crowned as the champion after defeating Argentine club Tigre in the finals. Having already qualified for the 2013 Libertadores Cup (for being 4th in the 2012 Brazilian League), São Paulo, after winning the 2012 Sudamericana Cup, will also dispute the 2013 Recopa Cup (Championship played between the Libertadores Cup champion and the Sudamericana Cup champion) and the 2013 Suruga Cup.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Draw
The draw was held on June 29, 2012 (postponed from original date of June 26), 12:00 UTC−04:00 at CONMEBOL's Convention Center in Luque, Paraguay.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Draw
The tournament is played in single-elimination format, with each tie played over two legs. The draw mechanism was as follows:


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Schedule
All dates listed are Wednesdays, but matches may be played on the day before (Tuesdays) and after (Thursdays) as well.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Preliminary stages
The first two stages of the competition are the First Stage and Second Stage. Both stages are largely played concurrent to each other.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Preliminary stages, First stage
The First Stage began on July 24 and ended on August 23. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Preliminary stages, Second stage
The Second Stage began on July 31 and ended on September 20.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages
Teams from the Round of 16 onwards are seeded depending on which second stage tie they won (i.e., the winner of Match O1 would be assigned the 1 seed, etc. ; the defending champion, Universidad de Chile, was assigned the 10 seed).


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Bracket
In each tie, the higher-seeded team played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Round of 16
The Round of 16 began on September 25 and ended on October 25. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Quarterfinals
The Quarterfinals began on October 30 and ended on November 15. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Semifinals
The Semifinals began on November 22 and ended on November 29. Team 1 played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Finals
The Finals were played over two legs, with the higher-seeded team playing the second leg at home. If the teams were tied on points and goal difference at the end of regulation in the second leg, the away goals rule would not be applied and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the title would be decided by penalty shootout.


2012 Copa Sudamericana Finals
The 2012 Copa Sudamericana Finals were the final two-legged tie that decided the winner of the 2012 Copa Sudamericana, the 11th edition of the Copa Sudamericana, South America's secondary international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The matches were played on 5 and 12 December 2012 between Tigre of Argentina and São Paulo of Brazil.


2012 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Rules
The final is played over two legs; home and away. The higher seeded team plays the second leg at home. The team that accumulates the most points —three for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss— after the two legs is crowned the champion. Should the two teams be tied on points after the second leg, the team with the best goal difference wins. If the two teams have equal goal difference, the away goals rule is not applied, unlike the rest of the tournament. Extra time is played, which consists of two 15-minute halves. If the tie is still not broken, a penalty shootout ensues according to the Laws of the Game.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages
The final stages of the 2012 Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana de Clubes consisted of four stages:


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Format
The defending champion, Universidad de Chile, and the fifteen winners of the second stage (three from Argentina, four from Brazil, eight from rest of South America) qualified for the final stages. The sixteen teams played a single-elimination tournament, and were seeded depending on which second stage tie they won (i.e., the winner of Match O1 would be assigned the 1 seed, etc. ; Universidad de Chile were assigned the 10 seed). In each stage, teams played in two-legged ties on a home-away basis, with the higher-seeded team playing the second leg at home. Each team earned 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The following criteria were used for breaking ties on points, except for the final:


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Format
For the final, the first tiebreaker was goal difference. If the teams are tied on goal difference, the away goals rule would not be applied, and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still had tied after extra time, the title would be decided by penalty shootout.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Format
If two teams from the same association reach the semifinals, they would be forced to play each other.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Bracket
In each tie, the higher-seeded team played the second leg at home.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match B
Tied on points 2–2, São Paulo won on away goals.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16, Match F
Tied on points 3–3, Universidad Católica won on away goals.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Semifinals, Match F2
Tied on points 2–2, São Paulo won on away goals.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Finals
The Finals were played over two legs, with the higher-seeded team playing the second leg at home. If the teams were tied on points and goal difference at the end of regulation in the second leg, the away goals rule would not be applied and 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, the title would be decided by penalty shootout.


2012 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Finals
The second leg was abandoned after 45 minutes by the referee, as the Tigre players refused to come back to play the rest of the match after incidents at halftime. Therefore, São Paulo were declared as the champion.


2012 Copa Sudamericana preliminary stages
The preliminary stages of the 2012 Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana de Clubes consisted of two stages:


2012 Copa Sudamericana preliminary stages, Format
The draw was made in Luque on June 29, 2012. Thirty-two teams (all from rest of South America) competed in the First Stage, where they were drawn into sixteen ties. The sixteen winners of the First Stage joined another fourteen teams (six from Argentina, eight from Brazil) to compete in the Second Stage, where they were drawn into fifteen ties.


2012 Copa Sudamericana preliminary stages, Format
Teams played in two-legged ties on a home-away basis. Each team earned 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The following criteria were used for breaking ties on points:


2012 Copa Sudamericana preliminary stages, Format
The fifteen winners of the Second Stage advanced to the round of 16 to join the defending champion Universidad de Chile.


2012 Copa Sudamericana preliminary stages, Second stage, Match O3
Note: Second leg postponed from September 19 due to bad weather. Liverpool won on points 4–1.


2012 Copa Sudamericana preliminary stages, Second stage, Match O11
Tied on points 3–3, Universidad Católica won on away goals.


2012 Copa Sudamericana preliminary stages, Second stage, Match O15
Tied on points 3–3, LDU Loja won on away goals.


2012 Copa Topper
The 2012 Copa Topper was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 22 and 28 October 2012.


2012 Copa Topper, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2012 Copa Topper – Doubles
Carlos Berlocq and Eduardo Schwank were the defending champions but decided not to participate. Martín Alund and Horacio Zeballos and defeated Facundo Argüello and Agustín Velotti 7–6(8–6), 6–2 in the final.


2012 Copa Topper – Singles
Carlos Berlocq was the defending champion but decided not to participate. Diego Schwartzman defeated Guillaume Rufin 6–1, 7–5 in the final to win the title.


2012 Copa Venezuela
The 2012 Copa Venezuela was the 43rd staging of the Copa Venezuela. The winner qualified for the 2013 Copa Sudamericana.


2012 Copa de España de Futsal
The 2012 Copa de España de Fútbol Sala was the 23rd staging of the Copa de España de Fútbol Sala. It took place in the Palacio de los Deportes de La Rioja, in Logroño, Spain, between 8 and 11 March 2012. It was hosted by LNFS, La Rioja government & Logroño city council. There was no host team.


2012 Copa de España de Futsal, Qualified teams
The qualified teams were the eight first teams on standings at midseason.


2012 Copa de España de Fútbol Americano
Spain's american football cup 2013 was the 18th edition of the Cup.


2012 Copa de España de Fútbol Americano
The six LNFA Elite teams entered the competition. L'Hospitalet Pioners and Rivas Osos, as champions and runners-up of last season LNFA Elite, received a bye to the semifinals. The quarter-finals were played on November 11 and November 18. The semifinals will be played on December 2.


2012 Copa de México de Naciones
The 2012 Copa de México de Naciones is the 1st edition of the Copa México de Naciones Sub-15 and it took in Mexico from June 18 till June 24.


2012 Copa de México de Naciones, Results, Group stage
The ranking of each team in each group was determined as follows:


2012 Copa de México de Naciones, Results, Group stage
a) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;b) goal difference in all group matches;c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.


2012 Copa de México de Naciones, Results, Group stage
Had two or more teams been equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings would have been determined as follows:


2012 Copa de México de Naciones, Results, Group stage
d) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;e) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;f) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;g) drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.


2012 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto
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2012 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto
The 2012 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto (Queen's Cup of Basketball) was the 50th edition of the Spanish women's basketball national cup. It was contested by the top four teams in the 2011–12 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto after Week 24 and took place on 10–11 March 2012 in Arganda del Rey, Madrid. The three matches were broadcast by Teledeporte and autonomical channels Canal 9, TV3 and CYLTV.


2012 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto
2011 Euroleague and Spanish League champion CB Avenida won its third cup by beating 68–57 favorite Ros Casares. Defending champion BC Rivas was defeated by Ros Casares in the semifinals, while Uni Girona made its debut in the competition.


2012 Copa de la Reina de Balonmano
The 2012 Copa de la Reina de Balonmano was the 33rd edition of the Spanish women's handball national cup, running between 12 and 15 April 2012 in Altea. SD Itxako defeated BM Bera Bera in the final to win its third title in a row.


2012 Copa de la Reina de Fútbol
The 2012 Copa de la Reina de Fútbol was the 30th edition of the Spanish women's football national cup. It took place between 8 and 10 June in RFEF's Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas, and it was contested following the end of the 2011–12 Primera División as a final four by the top four teams in the table, a major cut from the previous edition's fourteen contestants. On April 8, defending champion FC Barcelona became the first team to qualify for the competition. Athletic Bilbao and RCD Espanyol also qualified in subsequent weeks, and Rayo Vallecano clinched the last spot by earning a 1–1 draw against contender Levante UD in the final date.


2012 Copa de la Reina de Fútbol
Espanyol won its sixth title to tie with Levante as the competition's most successful team by beating Rayo Vallecano in a penalty shootout and Athletic, which reached the final for the first time, after extra time. Mari Paz Vilas, who scored Espanyol's winning goal six minutes from the penalty shootout, was named the tournament's most valuable player.


2012 Copa del Rey Final
The 2012 Copa del Rey Final was the 110th final since the tournament's establishment (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The match was contested by Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona on 25 May 2012 at the Vicente Calderón in Madrid. This was the clubs' first meeting in the final since 2009 where Barcelona won the trophy with a 4–1 victory. The same teams, the two with the most cup wins in the history of the competition, also met in the Round of 16 of the 2010–11 edition, in which Barça prevailed on away goals after two draws.


2012 Copa del Rey Final
Barcelona lifted the trophy for the 26th time in their history with a 3–0 victory.


2012 Copa del Rey Final, Match
Assistant referees:Raúl Cabañero Martinez (Murcia)Jesús Calvo Guadamuro (Andalusia)Fourth official:Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz (Valencian Community)Fifth official:Roberto Alonso Fernández (Community of Madrid)


2012 Copa del Rey Juvenil
The 2012 Copa del Rey Juvenil was the 62nd staging of the tournament. The competition began on 13 May and ended on 23 June with the final.


2012 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
The Copa del Rey de Baloncesto 2011–12 was the 76th edition of the Spanish King's Basketball Cup. It was managed by the ACB League and was held in Barcelona, in the Palau Sant Jordi on February 16–19.


2012 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
It was the first time the Cup was played in Barcelona since 1986.


2012 Copa del Rey de Balonmano
The 2012 Copa del Rey de Balonmano was the 37th edition of the Copa del Rey de Balonmano. It took place in the Palacio de los Deportes Infanta Cristina, in Torrevieja, Valencian Community, between 7 & 11 March 2012. It was hosted by Liga ASOBAL, Torrevieja city council, Costa Blanca Tourism & Hotel La Laguna. Torrevieja was the host team. Torrevieja hosted Copa del Rey for second time from 2002.


2012 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Qualified teams
The qualified teams were the top seven teams on standings at midseason, besides the host team.


2012 Copa del Sol
The 2012 Copa del Sol took place in Benidorm and La Manga, Spain between 28 January and 7 February 2012. Unlike last years edition, the format of the competition will be played as a group stage.


2012 Copa do Brasil
The 2012 Copa do Brasil (officially the Copa Kia do Brasil 2012 for sponsorship reasons) was the 24th edition of the Copa do Brasil. It began on March 7 and ended on July 11. The competition was contested by 64 teams, either qualified through their respective state championships (54) or by the CBF Rankings (10). Clubs that qualify for the 2012 Copa Libertadores (like the current champion, Vasco da Gama) did not take part because of scheduling conflicts.


2012 Copa do Brasil, Format
The competition is a single elimination knockout tournament featuring two-legged ties. In the first two rounds, if the away team wins the first match by 2 or more goals, it progresses straight to the next round avoiding the second leg. The away goals rule is also used in the Copa do Brasil. The winner qualifies for the 2013 Copa Libertadores, which prevents a team from winning the Copa do Brasil twice in a row.


2012 Copa do Brasil, Qualified teams, Qualified by state championships and other competitions
54 spots in the tournament are destinated to all the 27 State federations to indicate either one, two or three clubs, depending on their status in CBF State ranking. Criteria may vary, but usually state federations indicate clubs with best records in the state championships or other special competitions organized by such institutions.


2012 Copa do Brasil, Qualified teams, Qualified by CBF club ranking
Ten spots are reserved for the top 10 clubs in CBF club ranking, excluding those qualified by state competitions and clubs playing in 2012 Copa Libertadores.


2012 Copa do Brasil, Qualified teams, Qualified by CBF club ranking
CP: Points for 2011 Copa do Brasil (1st round 1 pt, 2nd round 2 pts, 3rd round 3 pts, quarterfinals 5 pts, semifinals 10 pts, runners-up 20 pts, winner 30 pts) LP: Minimum points for Campeonato Brasileiro (41 for Série A,21 for Série B, 1 for Série C and D)PP: Additional points for position (Série A and B: 1st 19 points, ..., 20th 0 Points; Série C: 1st 19 points, ..., 10th 10 points, 11th-20th 0 point, Série D: 1st 9 points,...9th 1 Point)    (Q) Qualified via ranking; (TQ) Qualified via ranking or via state competition; (SQ) Qualified via state competition; (E) Eligible for qualification via state competition; (I) Ineligible for qualification via state competition; (DQ) Ineligible because qualified for Copa Libertadores. Notes:


2012 Copa do Brasil, Bracket
Teams that play in their home stadium in the first leg are marked with †.


2012 Copa do Brasil, Semifinals
The Semifinals began on June 13 and ended on June 21.


2012 Copa do Brasil, Semifinals, Group 62
Tied on points 3–3, Coritiba advanced on better goal difference.


2012 Copa do Brasil, Finals
The Finals was played on July 5 and July 11.


2012 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino
The 2012 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino was the sixth staging of the competition. The competition started on March 10, 2012, and concluded on June 10, 2012. 32 clubs of all regions of Brazil participated of the cup, which is organized by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).


2012 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino, Competition format
The competition is contested by 32 clubs in a knock-out format where all rounds were played over two legs and the away goals rule was used, but in the first three rounds, if the away team won the first leg with an advantage of at least three goals, the second leg would not be played and the club automatically qualified to the next round.


2012 Copenhagen Masters
The 2012 Copenhagen Masters was the 20th edition of the invitational badminton tournament Copenhagen Masters, held in Falconer Salen in Copenhagen.


2012 Copenhagen Masters
Three competitions were held: Men's singles, won by Jan Ø. Jørgensen, men's doubles, won by Carsten Mogensen and Mads Pieler Kolding (Kolding replaced Mathias Boe for the final after Boe fell ill on the day of the final) and mixed doubles, won by Joachim Fischer and Christinna Pedersen. In addition, Peter Gade played his final match at the top level, an exhibition match against Lin Dan, where Gade emerged victorious.


2012 Copenhagen Masters, Results, Men's doubles
Mathias Boe fell ill with the flu on the day of the final and was replaced by Mads Pieler Kolding.


2012 Coppa Italia Final
The 2012 Coppa Italia Final was the final match of the 2011–12 Coppa Italia, the 65th season of the top cup competition in Italian football. The match was played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on Sunday, 20 May 2012 between Juventus and Napoli. Napoli won the match 2–0, with Edinson Cavani and Marek Hamšík scoring. The cup victory was Napoli's fourth in the competition. The two teams also later faced each other in the 2012 Supercoppa Italiana, as Napoli were cup champions and Juventus were crowned 2012 Serie A Champions.


2012 Corby by-election
The Corby by-election was a by-election held in England on 15 November 2012 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Corby in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The election was held on the same day as by-elections in Cardiff South and Penarth and Manchester Central, the first direct election for the post of Mayor of Bristol, and the first Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Andy Sawford, the Labour Party candidate, won with 48% of the vote. The Conservatives' and Liberal Democrats' vote dropped significantly and UKIP came third with their highest-ever vote in a parliamentary by-election to that date.


2012 Corby by-election, Background
Formed in 1983, the Corby constituency had been held by the Labour Party since 1997, but was captured by the Conservative candidate, author Louise Mensch (elected under her maiden name, Louise Bagshawe), at the 2010 general election. In an email to the Prime Minister David Cameron on 6 August 2012, Mrs Mensch confirmed her intention to move to New York City to spend time with her new husband, Peter Mensch, whose work is there, and their family. Louise Mensch was appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, thereby resigning her seat in the House of Commons, on 29 August 2012.


2012 Corby by-election, Background
All registered Parliamentary electors (i.e. British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens living in the UK and British citizens living overseas) who were aged 18 or over on 15 November 2012 and were on the electoral register for the constituency, were entitled to vote in the by-election. The deadline for voters to register to vote in the by-election was midnight on Wednesday 31 October 2012. However, those who qualified as an anonymous elector had until midnight on Thursday 8 November 2012 to register to vote.


2012 Corby by-election, Election campaign
Ed Miliband launched the Labour campaign in the East Northamptonshire town of Thrapston rather than the traditional Labour stronghold of Corby.


2012 Corby by-election, Election campaign
In an interview with the Northamptonshire Telegraph at the campaign launch in Corby, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said: "We intend to put together a serious campaign here."


2012 Corby by-election, Election campaign
A poll conducted 12–18 October by Lord Ashcroft in the constituency found 54% for Labour, 32% for the Conservatives, 10% for the Liberal Democrats and 8% for other candidates.


2012 Corby by-election, Election campaign
James Delingpole, a Daily Telegraph journalist who denies anthropogenic global warming, stated his intention to run as an independent, on a platform opposing wind farms. Delingpole stated this ambition on 17 September 2012 and met with prospective local voters. However, he never formally applied, pulling out after support from the Conservative energy minister, John Hayes, opposing onshore wind farms, which caused a minor rift between Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers.


2012 Corby by-election, Election campaign
Chris Heaton-Harris, (Con, Daventry) and campaign manager for the party at the by-election, was secretly filmed saying he had encouraged Delingpole to run as a "plan" whereby Delingpole would say he would stand, though he would never actually do so, in order to "cause some hassle" and thus promote opposition to wind farms. Lewes councillor, Donna Edmonds (Con) set up Delingpole's wind-farm campaign website. Both Heaton-Harris and Edmonds argued they had not broken any party rules on supporting an opposition candidate on the grounds that Delingpole never formally became a candidate. The news of the secret footage broke before the election in the national press.


2012 Corby by-election, Result
The total ballots issued were 35,775, and there were 110 spoilt ballots. The result was the second largest numerical majority ever in the Corby constituency (for any party) since its creation in 1983 (only 1997 was higher). In percentage terms, the Labour majority is only slightly lower than that in 1997 (21.8% compared to 22.0%).


2012 Corby by-election, Result
The result also represented the highest ever vote and share for UKIP at a parliamentary by-election at the time (the highest share record was broken at Rotherham two weeks later, and the record for largest number of UKIP votes polled in a by-election was broken at Eastleigh in February 2013). Corby was also the fourth by-election (out of nine in Great Britain up to that time) of the 2010 parliament at which the Liberal Democrats lost their deposit.


2012 Corby by-election, Result
This was the first seat gained by Labour in a by-election since the Wirral South by-election in 1997, and it is the most recent by-election which resulted in a Labour gain.


2012 Corby by-election, Result
A recount delayed the declaration of the result, called by the agent of the Liberal Democrat candidate, Jill Hope, who came 13 votes short of holding her deposit.


2012 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2012 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 103rd staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 11 December 2011. The championship began on 26 May 2012 and ended on 14 October 2012.


2012 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
On 14 October 2012, Kilworth won the championship following a 2-15 to 2-13 defeat of Kanturk in the final at Páirc Uí Rinn. This was their first ever championship title.


2012 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
Kilworth's Adrian Mannix was the championship's top scorer with 2-31.


2012 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship
The 2012 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship was the 115th staging of the Cork Junior A Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1895. The championship began on 9 September 2012 and ended on 4 November 2012.


2012 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship
On 4 November 2012, Kildorrery won the championship following a 2-8 to 0-13 defeat of Brian Dillons in a final replay at Páirc Uí Rinn. This was their first championship title in the grade.


2012 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship
Brian Dillons' John Horgan was the championship's top scorer with 2-39.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship
The 2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship was the seventh staging of the Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 2006. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 11 December 2011. The championship began on 5 May 2012 and ended on 28 October 2012.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship
Newmarket and Grenagh left the championship after their respective promotion and relegation to different grades. Kinsale and Valley Rovers joined the championship. Mayfield were relegated from the championship after being beaten in a playoff by Macroom.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship
The final was played on 28 October 2012 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, between St. Vincent's and St Michael's. St. Vincent's won the match by 0-12 to 0-11 to claim their second championship title in the grade overall and a first title since 2006.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship
Mallow's Cian O'Riordan was the championship's top scorer with 1-28.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship was the ninth staging of the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 2004. The championship began on 27 May 2012 and ended on 7 October 2012.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
On 1 September 2012, Aghabullogue were relegated from the championship following a 1-21 to 0-12 defeat by Watergrasshill.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
On 7 October 2012, Ballinhassig won the championship following a 1-19 to 1-12 defeat of Bandon in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first in seven championship seasons.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
Bandon's Ronan Crowley was the championship's top scorer with 4-33.


2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship, Teams
A total of 16 teams contested the Premier Intermediate Championship, including 14 teams from the 2011 premier intermediate championship, one relegated from the 2011 senior championship and one promoted from the 2011 intermediate championship.


2012 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 2012 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 114th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The championship began on 20 March 2012 and ended on 28 October 2012.


2012 Cork Senior Football Championship
University College Cork entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Duhallow.


2012 Cork Senior Football Championship
On 28 October 2012, Castlehaven won the championship following a 1-07 to 0-09 defeat of Duhallow in the final. This was their 4th championship title overall and their first title since 2003.


2012 Cork Senior Football Championship
Duhallow's Donnacha O'Connor was the championship's top scorer with 0-48.


2012 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
The 2012 Evening Echo Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 124th staging of the county senior championship since its establishment in 1887. The draw for the 2012 fixtures took place on 6 October 2011. The championship began on 26 May 2012 and ended on 7 October 2012.


2012 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
Carrigtwohill were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the quarter-finals. Sarsfield's won the title following a 1-15 to 1-13 victory over Bishopstown in the final.


2012 Cornell Big Red football team
The 2012 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by third-year head coach Kent Austin and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell finished the season 4–6 overall and 2–5 in Ivy League play to tie for sixth.


2012 Corpus Christi mayoral election
The 2012 Corpus Christi mayoral election was held on November 6, 2012 to elect the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas. It saw the election of Nelda Martinez.


2012 Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 2012.


2012 Costa Book Awards
The shortlist was announced on 20 November 2012 and the winners were announced on 2 January 2013. The award ceremony took place in London on 29 January 2013, at which the winner of the overall Costa Book of the Year was announced.


2012 Costa Book Awards
2012 was the first year of the short story prize. 1,800 anonymous entries were submitted by published and unpublished writers. Judges for the short story prize included author Victoria Hislop, the Spandau Ballet songwriter Gary Kemp, National Academy of Writing director Richard Beard, Woman & Home books editor Fanny Blake, and literary agent Simon Trewin. Six finalists were chosen and the full stories were made available in both text and audio on the Costa website. The names of the authors were announced only on 24 January, and the winner, Avril Joy's "Millie and Bird", was announced on 29 January.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake
The 2012 Costa Rica earthquake occurred at 08:42 local time (14:42 UTC) on September 5. The epicenter of the 7.6 Mw earthquake was in the Nicoya Peninsula, 11 kilometers east-southeast of Nicoya. A tsunami warning was issued shortly afterwards, but later cancelled. Two people are known to have died, one from a heart attack and another, a construction worker, crushed by a collapsing wall. It was the second strongest earthquake recorded in Costa Rica's history, following the 1991 Limon earthquake.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Geology
Costa Rica lies above the convergent plate boundary where the Cocos Plate is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate at a rate of 9 cm per year. Off the Nicoya Peninsula, the Cocos Plate is subducting along the Middle America Trench, and the Nicoya Peninsula is unique in being one of the few landmasses along the Pacific Rim located directly above the seismogenic zone of a subduction megathrust fault. The earthquake is thought to have occurred as a result of thrust faulting on the plate interface. The earthquake has a maximum slip of about 2.5 m. The 1950 earthquake essentially the same part of the plate boundary as the 2012 earthquake.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Geology
The same area was struck by a M7.7 earthquake in 1950 but had been quiet before the recent earthquake, and the segment of the plate boundary was known as the Nicoya Peninsula seismic gap. In the intervening period, up to 2010, there was an estimated 5 m of missing displacement. Studies determined that the earthquake recurrence interval for the Nicoya Peninsula was about 50 years. The Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) stated that the earthquake had released 40% of the energy accumulated during the 8 years before it and did not exclude the possibility of an earthquake of equal or larger magnitude.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake was felt all over Costa Rica as well as in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama. The maximum intensity reached MM X or higher in Nosara near the epicenter. The shaking has intensities of MM VIII in Santa Cruz and MM V in San José. The recorded acceleration in Fraijanes, Alajuela was larger than that of Nicoya, Guanacaste. A tsunami warning was issued for neighbouring countries along the Pacific Coast shortly afterwards, but later cancelled.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Earthquake
In neighbouring Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies began monitoring the seven active volcanoes in the country, expecting that the strong earthquake could activate them. The country's highest volcano, San Cristóbal Volcano (1,745 metres), erupted on September 8, sending an ash cloud to 5,000 metres and forcing the evacuation of 3,000 people from five communities in the area.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
Some 1,650 aftershocks occurred in the following five days, including one of 5.4 magnitude, or Mw 5.7 by USGS, about 13 km southeast of Playa Sámara on September 8 at 20:29 UTC (14:29 local time), according to OVSICORI, with no further damage or casualties reported.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
The most powerful aftershock since the September earthquake, lasting at least 30 seconds and measuring magnitude 6.6, struck at 00:45 UTC on 24 October 2012 (18:45 on 23 October, locally) near the town of Hojancha in the Nicoya Peninsula. In San José, people rushed to the streets out of fear. A thunderous sound accompanying the aftershock was reported by residents in Matapalo.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
There were reports of destroyed houses in the cantons of Hojancha, Nicoya, Nandayure, and Santa Cruz of the province of Guanacaste. Building damage was reported in San José, including broken windows, cracks on walls, and materials detached from the buildings. In the city center of San José, many people stopped working and grouped on the streets waiting for safety checks for the buildings. In total, at least 169 houses were damaged. Cracks were found at the dyke protecting Filadelfia from the Tempisque River. The Hospital Monseñor Sanabria in Puntarenas suffered damage, and the building was partially closed.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
School classes were cancelled for one day in stricken areas and students were evacuated. Fifty-five thousand people were deprived of running water in the provinces of Puntarenas and Guanacaste. A water tank in Filadelfia collapsed. Power losses were reported in some areas in and around the capital city San José and in the Nicoya Peninsula and the Chira Island. GSM and 3G services were interrupted in some places near the epicentre.


2012 Costa Rica earthquake, Relief and reconstruction
Following the earthquake, the Ministry of Public Education announced that 56 schools in the country would have to be demolished and rebuilt at a preliminary cost of ₡3 billion. The final bill will be higher, however, because many other schools suffered lesser damage which also requires repair. The Costa Rican Red Cross deployed emergency teams with about 205 members and 66 vehicles. According to a preliminary estimation from the Costa Rican government, the earthquake caused a loss of about ₡ 22.36 billion. Facing the damage, the president of Costa Rica expressed the need of a loan from the World Bank.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic
The 2012 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, the 76th edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on January 6, 2012 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic
The game, which was telecast at 7:00 p.m. CT on FOX, featured the Kansas State Wildcats from the Big XII Conference versus the Arkansas Razorbacks from the SEC Conference. Arkansas won the game 29–16, which was their first win over Kansas State since 1967.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic
This was only the second time in the BCS era that a non-BCS bowl had two teams with higher BCS rankings playing than teams in a BCS bowl (the first being the 2008 Poinsettia Bowl). The 2012 Sugar Bowl, and 2012 Orange Bowl had teams with lower BCS rankings squaring off.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic
As of the 2013 season, this is the most recent bowl game involving an SEC team that was not played within the conference footprint, as Texas A&M did not join the SEC until 2012.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams
This was the first meeting between Arkansas and Kansas State in the postseason and the fifth time overall.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Arkansas
Arkansas came into this game with a 10–2 record, including a perfect 7–0 record at home. Arkansas' only losses were on the road to #1 LSU and #2 Alabama. Quarterbacking for the Razorbacks was No. 8 Tyler Wilson (Jr., 6–3, 220). The team was ranked 13th (1st in the SEC) in passing offense (307.8 yards per game) and 27th (1st in SEC) in total offense (445.8 yards per game). In 2011, Wilson threw for 3,422 yards (285 yards per game) for 22 touchdowns with a 63.1 percent pass completion.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Kansas State
2011 National and Big XII Coach of the Year Bill Snyder brought into this game a successful ground game that went 10–2 during the 2011 season. Quarterbacking for the Wildcats was No. 7 Collin Klein (Jr. 6–5, 226). Klein ranked second nationally in rushing with his 1,099 net yards and had 26 rushing scores. He passed for 12 touchdowns, fifth in the Big XII. Running back John Hubert had 933 rushing yards and three touchdowns for the Wildcats in 2011.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
Arkansas placekicker Zach Hocker started off the scoring with a 26-yard field goal, to give Arkansas a 3–0 lead. K-State couldn't do anything with the ball early, as the Hogs defense played outstanding against the run for most of the night.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
After pinning the Wildcats near their own goal line, K-State punted. Arkansas return man Joe Adams fielded that 47 yard kick at the Hogs 49 yard line, got three or four great blocks by his teammates, and ran down the right sideline for a touchdown. It was Adams’ fourth punt returned for a touchdown on the season, and was the first in the Cotton Bowl since Arkansas’ Lance Alworth took one back in the 1961 Cotton Bowl versus Duke.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
After another Hocker field goal to make it 13–0, Arkansas QB Tyler Wilson connected with receiver Jarius Wright on a 45-yard touchdown bomb, stretching Arkansas’ lead to 19–0. Kansas State lineman Raphael Guidry blocked the extra point attempt, and Nigel Malone scooped up the ball and returned it for 2 points, making the Hogs lead 19–2. K-State would get a TD pass from Klein to TE Andre MacDonald just before halftime, setting the score at 19–9.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
In the 3rd quarter K-State drove 60 yards in just over three minutes, and Klein dove in from the six yard line to cut Arkansas’ lead to 19–16. Two possessions later, the Hogs put together a 68-yard drive that took three minutes and twenty-five seconds. The drive culminated with a 9-yard TD pass from Wilson to Cobi Hamilton, pushing Arkansas’ lead back to ten points, 26–16.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
With time winding down, KSU abandoned their vaunted option-style running game, and started throwing the ball. The Razorbacks sacked the K-State QB 7 times, one shy of the record set in the 2000 Cotton Bowl by Arkansas, in a 27–6 win over Texas.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
Hocker would add his third field goal to stretch Arkansas’ lead to 29–16, with three and a half minutes to play. On their final possession, KSU only ran for positive yardage once, on a Klein scramble. Most of Klein's completions for the game were underneath the coverage, and for shorter gains. His longest completion went for 23 yards. With under a minute to play, Klein finally went deep. Arkansas rover Jerico Nelson was there for the interception, returning it 61 yards, and sealing the victory for the Hogs.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
Arkansas improved to 11-2 for the 2011 season, claimed their fourth Cotton Bowl championship (1965, 1976, 2000) in school history, and was ranked #5 in the final polls. It was Arkansas' first 11 win season since 1977. Kansas State fell to 10–3.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary, Scoring summary
Arkansas QB Tyler Wilson was the Offensive MVP ... 20 completions on 31 attempts (65%), 216 yards, 2 TD; 7 carries for 18 yards.


2012 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary, Scoring summary
Arkansas DE Jake Bequette was the Defensive MVP ... 5 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 caused fumble.


2012 Country Music Association Awards
The 2012 Country Music Association Awards, 46th Annual Ceremony, is a music award ceremony that was held on November 1, 2012, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee and was hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood for their fifth time together.


2012 County Championship
The 2012 County Championship season, known as the LV= County Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the 113th cricket County Championship season. Warwickshire won their seventh County Championship title. It was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team plays all the others in their division both home and away. The top two teams from Division Two (Derbyshire and Yorkshire) were promoted to the first division for the 2013 season, while the bottom two sides from Division One (Worcestershire and defending champions Lancashire) were relegated.


2012 County Championship, Standings
Teams receive 16 points for a win and 3 for a draw. Bonus points (a maximum of 5 batting points and 3 bowling points) may be scored during the first 110 overs of each team's first innings.


2012 Coupe Internationale de Nice
The 2012 Coupe Internationale de Nice (English: 2012 International Cup of Nice) was the 17th edition of an annual international figure skating competition held in Nice, France. It was held on October 24–28, 2012. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level and singles on the junior level.


2012 Coupe de France Final
The 2012 Coupe de France Final was the 94th final of France's most prestigious football cup competition. The final took place on 28 April 2012 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis and was contested between Lyon and Quevilly. The winner of the Coupe de France is guaranteed a place in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League with the club's appearance being dependent on whether it qualifies for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League. The final was broadcast live on France 2.


2012 Coupe de France Final
First division club Lyon defeated semi-professional third-tier Quevilly 1–0 in the final courtesy of a first half goal from Lisandro López to win its fifth Coupe de France title. The title is the club's first domestically since winning the same competition in 2008. The runners-up, Quevilly, alongside fellow National club Gazélec Ajaccio, were awarded the Petit Poucet Plaque, an award given to the best performing non-professional club in the Coupe de France.


2012 Coupe de France Final, News, Team backgrounds
Lyon appeared in its eighth Coupe de France final match. In the club's previous seven final matches, it won four of them, most recently in 2008 when Lyon defeated Paris Saint-Germain 1–0 courtesy of an extra time goal from Sidney Govou. The 2008 domestic cup title was Lyon's last trophy the club won during the Jean-Michel Aulas reign. Prior to 2008, Lyon last reached a Coupe de France final in 1976 when the club suffered a 3–0 defeat to Marseille. The Rhône-Alpes-based club made its second appearance at the Stade de France in two weeks having played at the country's national stadium on 14 April in the 2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final.


2012 Coupe de France Final, News, Team backgrounds
Quevilly, a semi-professional club, made its second appearance in the final of the Coupe de France. The club's only other appearance came over 85 years ago when the club was defeated 3–0 by Marseille at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in 1927. The competition was only in its tenth season at the time and it was also the first time in the competition's history that the President of France handed the trophy to the winning team's captain. Included in that Quevilly team was former French international Philippe Bonnardel. The 85-year gap between finals appearances is the longest in competition history. Other notable appearances in the competition occurred during the 1967–68 season and more recently, the 2009–10 season, when Quevilly reached the semi-finals. Quevilly's performance in 1968 was the best performance by an amateur club in the competition prior to Calais reaching the final in 2000.


2012 Coupe de France Final, News, Team backgrounds
Quevilly and Lyon have met only once, coincidentally, during the 1967–68 Coupe de France when Quevilly reached the semi-finals. The two clubs met on 10 March 1968 in the fourth round of the competition. Quevilly won the match 1–0 with a goal from Daniel Horlaville. Quevilly was the third club from the Championnat National to appear in the final of the Coupe de France and attempted to become the lowest-rated club in the competition's history to lift the trophy. Lyon became only the third team in French football history to reach both the Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France finals in the same season. Paris Saint-Germain, who have accomplished the feat three times, and Lorient were the other clubs.


2012 Coupe de France Final, News, Ticketing
The Coupe de France final has been played every year at the Stade de France since 1998, following the stadium's completion. The stadium has a capacity of 81,338 spectators. Each club that participates in the final received the same quota of tickets. The tickets were distributed to the public via each club, as well as the each club's league association. Lyon began selling its tickets on 14 April at the club's store at the Stade de Gerland and on its official website, while Quevilly distributed its tickets on 20 April at the Stade Lozai, the club's home stadium.


2012 Coupe de France Final, News, Officials
On 5 April, the LFP announced that the Direction Nationale de l’Arbitrage (DNA) (English: National Directorate of Arbitration) had confirmed referee Hervé Piccirillo of Île-de-France would officiate the 2012 Coupe de France final. Piccirillo, a Fédéral F1 referee, the highest designation given to a referee in France, has officiated matches in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, international friendlies, and qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He presided over five matches involving either of the two teams this season; four matches for Lyon and one for Quevilly.


2012 Coupe de France Final, News, Officials
Lyon won two of the four matches, drew one, and were defeated in the other. On 21 January 2012, Piccirillo presided over Quevilly's 1–0 win over Angers in the Round of 32 of this year's Coupe de France. He was assisted by Fredjy Harchay and David Benech, both of Île-de-France. Bartolomeu Varela of Brittany served as the fourth official.


2012 Coupe de l'Outre-Mer
La Coupe de l'Outre-Mer de football 2012 (English: The 2012 Overseas Football Cup) was the third edition of the Coupe de l'Outre-Mer, a football tournament for the overseas departments and territories of France. It took place from September 22 to September 29, 2012


2012 Coupe de l'Outre-Mer, Draw
The draw for the group stage was made on 20 April 2012. The finalists from the 2010 edition, Martinique and Réunion were seeded for the draw.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final
The 2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final was the 18th final of France's football league cup competition, the Coupe de la Ligue, a football competition for the 42 teams that the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) manages. The final took place on 14 April 2012 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis and was contested between Lyon and Marseille.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final
The latter club entered the match as the two-time defending champions of the competition and sought to become the first club in French football history to win the competition three consecutive years after previously becoming the first club to win the competition in back-to-back seasons. Lyon made its first finals appearance since the 2008 Coupe de France Final and played at the Stade de France for the first time in nearly three years. The final was broadcast live on public network broadcaster France Télévisions.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final
Marseille captured its third straight league cup title after defeating Lyon 1–0 after an extra time goal from Brandão. The Man of the Match award was given to Cameroonian international Nicolas N'Koulou. Marseille secured a UEFA Europa League place for the 2012–13 season.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final, News, Team backgrounds
Lyon appeared in its fourth final of the Coupe de la Ligue. The Rhône-Alpes-based club won its only league cup title in 2001 defeating Monaco 2–1 after extra time. In Lyon's other two finals appearances, the club finished runner-up to Metz and Bordeaux in 1996 and 2007, respectively. Lyon made its first finals appearance since the 2008 Coupe de France Final when the club beat Paris Saint-Germain 1–0. The club also played at the Stade de France for the first time in nearly three years. The last time Lyon played at the country's national stadium was in a domestic league match against Lille. Lyon lost the match 2–0.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final, News, Team backgrounds
Marseille made its third appearance in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue. The club was the competition's defending champions having defeated Montpellier 1–0 in last year's final. As a result, Marseille became the first club in the French football history to win the competition in consecutive seasons; the club defeated Bordeaux 3–1 in 2010. Les Phocéens attempted to become the first club to win the Coupe de la Ligue in three consecutive years.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final, News, Ticketing
The Coupe de la Ligue final has been played every year at the Stade de France since 1998, following the stadium's completion. The stadium has a capacity of 81,338 spectators. Each club that will participate in the final will receive the same quota of tickets, which are distributed to season ticket holders and through each club's ticket sales at a later date. Tickets went on sale to the general public on 28 March 2012, three weeks before the final, and were immediately sold out.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final, News, Officials
On 5 April, the LFP announced that the Direction Nationale de l’Arbitrage (DNA) (English: National Directorate of Arbitration) had confirmed referee Stéphane Lannoy of Nord-Pas-de-Calais would officiate the 2012 Coupe de la Ligue final. Lannoy, a Fédéral F1 referee, the highest designation given to a referee in France, has officiated matches at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup and qualifiers for the UEFA Euro 2008, UEFA Euro 2012, and 2010 FIFA World Cup. He has presided over five matches involving either of the two teams this season; three matches for Lyon and two for Marseille.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final, News, Officials
Lyon lost two of the three matches, while Marseille won both of its ties that Lannoy officiated. Lannoy refereed his second league cup final, his first being in 2010, and was assisted by Eric Dansault of Centre and Frédéric Cano of Centre-Ouest. Lionel Jaffredo of Brittany will serve as the fourth official.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final, News, Time change
On 30 March 2012, the Ligue de Football Professionnel confirmed that the kick-off of the 2012 Coupe de la Ligue final would be moved from its originally scheduled time of 20:45 to 21:00. The decision was made by the LFP as a result of television channel France 2's, which aired the final, obligations towards the upcoming 2012 French presidential election.


2012 Coupe de la Ligue Final, Match, Pre-match
The opening kick-off was done by former players Sonny Anderson and Abedi Pele. Both players have starred for Lyon and Marseille during their careers, however, each is known primarily for their stints with each club; Anderson with Lyon and Pele with Marseille. With Les Gones, Anderson won two league titles in 2001 and 2002 and also captured the 2000–01 Coupe de la Ligue title. Pele is a member of the FIFA 100 and won two league titles in the early 90s with Marseille. In 1993, he helped the club win the UEFA Champions League. In his five-year stint with Marseille, Pele won the African Footballer of the Year award three times.


2012 Courtesy Freight Northern Ontario Superspiel
The 2012 Courtesy Freight Northern Ontario Superspiel was held from November 9 to 11 at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay, Ontario as part of the 2012–13 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round robin format. The purse for the men's event was CAD$15,000, of which the winner, Al Hackner, received CAD$5,000, and the purse for the women's event was CAD$6,000. Hackner defeated Craig Kochan in the men's final with a score of 7–5, while Krista McCarville defeated Ashley Kallos in the women's final with a score of 5–2.


2012 Coventry City Council election
Elections for Coventry City Council were held on Thursday, 3 May 2012, the same day as other 2012 local elections in the United Kingdom. As the council is elected by thirds, one seat in each of the city's 18 wards was up for election. The Labour Party won the seat in 15 of the  wards, gaining a total of 8 and increasing their majority to 32 seats. The Conservative Party won the remaining three seats, losing six, with the Liberal Democrats and the Socialist Party both losing their only seat on the council.


2012 Coventry City Council election
The election coincided with a local referendum on whether to have an elected mayor.


2012 Coventry City Council election, Campaign
The Conservative party focused their efforts on retaining their existing seats, campaigning on issues like the closure of Sure Start centres, disruption caused by rebuilding the city centre, and an alternative budget proposal. Labour focused on their aim of protecting frontline services, rebuilding the city centre for the Olympics (Coventry hosted several football events), and fixing potholes. Liberal Democrat councillor Russell Field focused on his record in working for his ward. The Socialists supported an independent candidate in Foleshill who is campaigning against the planned closure of a local sports centre.


2012 Coventry City Council election, Campaign
They focused on "stiffening the resistance to coalition cuts to this city" and accused Labour of signing up to coalition austerity plans. The Greens focused on alternative plans for the city, including an insulation scheme for homes and instituting a Living Wage for council employees. UKIP was focussing on local issues.


2012 Coventry City Council election, Results, Council composition
The composition of the council before and after the election can be found in the following table:


2012 Coventry City Council election, Results, Results by ward
Note: For all wards, the percentage change is calculated from the council local election in 2011 (the last time the ward was contested), whilst the gains, losses, and holds are calculated from 2008 (the last time these particular seats were contested).


2012 Coventry City Council election, Results, Results by ward
Note for Bablake ward: Independent candidate John Gazey was the sitting councillor for the Conservative party. After being deselected he decided to run as an independent.


2012 Craven District Council election
The 2012 Craven District Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Craven District Council in North Yorkshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2012 Craven District Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


2012 Craven District Council election, Background
Before the election the Conservatives controlled the council with 30 seats, compared to 9 independents and 3 Liberal Democrats. The Conservative leader of the council, Chris Knowles-Fitton, was among the councillors to defend their seats, standing in Barden Fell ward, while in Ingleton and Clapham, the sitting independent councillor David Ireton stood at the election as a Conservative. Meanwhile, the Conservative councillor for Hellifield and Long Preston for the past 13 years, Helen Firth, resigned from the council in March 2012 to leave that seat vacant before the election.


2012 Craven District Council election, Election result
The number of Conservative councillors was reduced by 2 to 16, but they retained a majority of 2 seats over the 10 independents and 4 Liberal Democrats.


2012 Craven District Council election, Election result
Independents gained 2 seats from the Conservatives after John Kerwin-Davy took Skipton North from the Conservatives, while Chris Moorby won by 34 votes the seat in Hellifeild and Long Preston vacated by Conservative Helen Firth. However the Conservatives picked up a seat in Ingleton and Clapham as David Ireton won the seat as a Conservative, after previously being an independent councillor for the same seat. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats also gained up a seat from the Conservatives in Skipton East, where Eric Jaquin took the seat from Pam Heseltine.


2012 Crawley Borough Council election
The 2012 Crawley Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Crawley District Council in West Sussex, England. One third of the council was up for election. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.


2012 Crawley Borough Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


2012 Critérium International
The 2012 Critérium International, was the 81st running of the Critérium International cycling stage race.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
The 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné was the sixty-fourth running of the Critérium du Dauphiné cycling stage race; a race rated as a World Tour event on the UCI calendar, the highest classification such an event can have. The race consisted of eight stages, beginning with a prologue in Grenoble on 3 June, and concluded in Châtel on 10 June. The race was organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation, the same group that organises the Tour de France.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
It was viewed as a great preparation for July's Tour de France, hence why a majority of the contenders for the general classification of the major tour participated in the Dauphiné. It featured mountainous stages as well as an individual time trial quite similar in length to those that awaited the riders in the Tour.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
The race was won for the second successive year by Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins, who claimed the leader's yellow and blue jersey after the first stage, extending his race-leading advantage after winning the fourth stage individual time trial, and ultimately maintained that advantage. Wiggins became only the third rider to win the Dauphiné and Paris–Nice – a race that Wiggins had won in March – in the same year after Jacques Anquetil (1963 and 1965) and Eddy Merckx (1971) had previously done so.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
Wiggins' winning margin over his team-mate and runner-up Michael Rogers was one minute and seventeen seconds, and BMC Racing Team's Cadel Evans completed the podium, nine seconds down on Rogers. In the race's other classifications, Liquigas–Cannondale rider Cayetano Sarmiento won the King of the Mountains classification, Evans won the green jersey for the points classification, Rabobank's Wilco Kelderman won the young rider classification, with Team Sky finishing at the head of the teams classification by over thirteen minutes, after placing four riders inside the final overall top ten placings.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Participating teams
As the Critérium du Dauphiné was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Four other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 22-team peloton. All twenty-two squads that competed in the Dauphiné contested the Tour de France later in the year.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Schedule
The route for the race was announced on 27 March 2012.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Prologue
The Dauphiné began with its traditional short individual time trial stage, with a near-flat course around the streets of Grenoble; the city was hosting the prologue of the race for the fourth time in fifteen years following prior starts in 1997, 2000 and 2007, the last of which was won by the 2011 race winner Bradley Wiggins, then riding for the Cofidis team. With rain expected to disrupt the stage, as it had done so in the 2011 prologue, teams decided to spread their time trial specialists across the field in order to maximise their potential of winning the stage.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Prologue
For the first rider to depart the start in Grenoble, Vacansoleil–DCM's Lieuwe Westra, weather conditions were dry. Westra ultimately recorded a time of 6' 46" for the stage, which was good enough for a top-12 stage placing after all 175 riders had taken to the course. Westra's time was beaten shortly afterwards by Rabobank rider Carlos Barredo, who went four seconds quicker around the course, 5.7 km (3.5 mi) in length.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Prologue
Barredo held the top spot for around quarter of an hour, as his time was marginally beaten by Andriy Hryvko, a four-time Ukrainian champion in the discipline, riding for the Astana team. Soon after, the eventual stage-winning performance was recorded by the Australian national champion Luke Durbridge, for Orica–GreenEDGE. Durbridge set a time of 6' 38", in the favourable conditions; he held on to his spot throughout the expected changeable weather that was a factor in the remainder of the running order.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Prologue
Following a rain shower that effected the racing during the middle portion of the stage, the later riders to take to the course did have dry roads to contend with but the wind had picked up and made conditions more difficult than what the earlier riders had for their passages through the parcours. Durbridge's time remained untroubled to the end, despite the best attempts of defending champion Wiggins, who finished just 1.35 seconds in arrears in second place, having started last of the 175 competitors.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Prologue
Thus, Durbridge took his first stage victory at World Tour level, which gave him a clean sweep of the jerseys post-stage, for holding the lead of the overall, points and young rider classifications. Other overall contenders Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing Team), Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Tony Martin, Jérôme Coppel (Saur–Sojasun), as well as van Garderen's team-mate Cadel Evans and 2010 winner Janez Brajkovič (Astana) all lost time in comparison to Wiggins; Martin placed best in fifth position, although Evans also made the top ten, in ninth place.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 1
With no fewer than six categorised climbs during the 187 km (116.2 mi) parcours, the first mass-start stage was not ideally suited towards the sprinters, but was favourable towards puncheurs, as the final of the six climbs – the third-category Côte de la Sizeranne – came just 9 km (5.6 mi) from the stage's finish in Saint-Vallier.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 1
Six riders – Giovanni Bernaudeau (Team Europcar), RadioShack–Nissan rider Markel Irizar, Rabobank's Maarten Tjallingii, Nicolas Edet of Cofidis, Sep Vanmarcke (Garmin–Barracuda) and Argos–Shimano rider Yukihiro Doi – advanced clear of the main field in the early running of the stage; the sextet managed to extend their advantage to a maximum of over thirteen minutes around a quarter of the way through the stage. Around the same point, a crash involving Pierrick Fédrigo (FDJ–BigMat) and Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel–Euskadi) brought both riders down. Neither rider returned to the main group, as Fédrigo lost over six minutes and Sánchez almost four times that; losing almost 24 minutes, after reports that he had been suffering with broken ribs. He was taken to hospital after the stage, where he was diagnosed with bruised ribs.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 1
The teams of several of the general classification contenders were prevalent on the front of the peloton as they set about reducing the advantage that the breakaway group of six riders were holding over them. The gap had been reduced to around the three-minute mark with 50 km (31.1 mi) left of the stage to cover. Another big crash happened some 20 km (12.4 mi) later with Orica–GreenEDGE's Simon Gerrans, Vacansoleil–DCM rider Pim Ligthart and Dan Martin of Garmin–Barracuda among those to hit the tarmac.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 1
Omega Pharma–Quick-Step moved forward, and pulled the gap under two minutes and caused the breakaway to splinter through pressure. Bernaudeau – who had figured at each of the mountain passes to the point – and Doi failed to stay with their companions as they approached the day's final climb, the Côte de la Sizeranne.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 1
Tjallingii was also dropped by the remaining members of the breakaway, while in the main field, Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) and Andy Schleck of RadioShack–Nissan – who had been criticised by team manager Johan Bruyneel for his poor opening half to the season – were both struggling off the back of the group. Both riders lost over three minutes by the stage end.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 1
As the lead group approached the top of the Côte de la Sizeranne, Irizar attacked from the group of the remaining three breakaway riders, while Vanmarcke and Edet were joined by Team Europcar rider Pierre Rolland, who had escaped the confines of the main group itself. Another three-rider move went forwards from the peloton as Rolland's team-mate Cyril Gautier, Rabobank's Luis León Sánchez and BMC Racing Team rider Philippe Gilbert got clear by several seconds. Irizar held a slim advantage, but overshot a corner and was eventually caught with around 5 km (3.1 mi) to go.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 1
As Irizar was caught, Jérôme Coppel of Saur–Sojasun counter-attacked, and was eventually joined by Cadel Evans – a team-mate of Gilbert at BMC Racing Team – and Astana's Andrey Kashechkin, who finished third in the race in 2007. The trio managed to hold off the closing peloton into the finish, where Evans managed to fend off the advances of Coppel and Kashechkin to take the stage win. FDJ–BigMat rider Nacer Bouhanni led home the peloton just four seconds in arrears, and with race leader Luke Durbridge (Orica–GreenEDGE) not featuring in the split peloton, Bradley Wiggins assumed the race lead for Team Sky; Evans moved up to second, one second behind Wiggins.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 2
Just like the previous day's stage, the second stage of the race also comprised six categorised climbs, packed into the 160 km (99.4 mi) route through the Ardèche region, with the highest point coming at the summit of the second-category Col de Montivernoux. The finish in Saint-Félicien came at the end of a 2.5 km (1.6 mi) climb, which would more or less rule out the sprinters more obviously than the first stage parcours.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 2
FDJ–BigMat rider Rémi Pauriol and Saur–Sojasun's Maxime Méderel broke clear of the peloton in the opening stages, and they were subsequently joined by a group which contained a number of overall race contenders including maillot jaune et bleu wearer Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky), Vincenzo Nibali of Liquigas–Cannondale and Omega Pharma–Quick-Step rider Sylvain Chavanel. The group was eventually reabsorbed back into the main group after around 20 km (12.4 mi) of racing.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 2
After a period of stability within the main group, a four-rider move consisting of three French riders – David Moncoutié representing Cofidis, Blel Kadri of Ag2r–La Mondiale and Team Europcar's Christophe Kern, who won a stage during the 2011 race – as well as Colombia's Cayetano Sarmiento, riding for the Liquigas–Cannondale team, advanced clear of the field and quickly established an advantage over them; of those, Kadri was best-placed at just eleven seconds behind Wiggins prior to the stage. Team Sky marshalled the front of the peloton as a result, not letting the gap over four minutes at any point.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 2
Behind, there were several moves in order for riders to bridge a gap between the main field and the leaders; at the Col de Lalouvesc with 40 km (24.9 mi) to go, the leaders only held a gap of around half a minute over their chasers. Five riders tried to do so, but only one was able to stay in between the breakaway and the peloton.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 2
FDJ–BigMat's Anthony Roux was the rider in question, and he set off after the quartet up front, and was able to reach them with around 7 km (4.3 mi) remaining of the stage. However, the peloton was not far behind, and the breakaway did not last much longer after that. With the field back together, several riders attempted solo moves off the front of the peloton, including Kadri's team-mate Mickaël Cherel, but all were unsuccessful.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 2
The group remained together into the climb towards the finish; Liquigas–Cannondale and BMC Racing Team headed the group, protecting their main riders Nibali and Cadel Evans from any potential trouble. World time trial champion Tony Martin tried to get clear within the final kilometre for Omega Pharma–Quick-Step but could not sustain a gap over everyone else, and Team Katusha rider Daniel Moreno timed his sprint perfectly, to take his third win of the season, ahead of French pair Julien Simon (Saur–Sojasun) and RadioShack–Nissan's Tony Gallopin. Wiggins finished ninth to maintain his one-second overall lead over Evans, who was seventh.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 3
With a lengthy individual time trial and three mountainous stages left during the itinerary, the third stage was billed as the sprinters' one remaining chance at a stage victory at the Dauphiné. As such, the parcours of the stage suited them; although there were three categorised climbs during the stage – a third-category climb and two fourth-category passes – they were all within the first half of the stage.


2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, Stages, Stage 3
Two riders – Spanish pairing Luis Ángel Maté of Cofidis and Euskaltel–Euskadi rider Egoi Martínez – went clear almost immediately after the start of the stage, making the early breakaway from the field, and the duo managed to extend their advantage over the main field to around five-and-a-half minutes, within the first 20 km (12.4 mi) of the stage. Behind the lead pair, Team Europcar's Giovanni Bernaudeau was the first rider from the peloton to cross the fourth-category climbs, and regained the lead of the mountains classification from Ag2r–La Mondiale rider Blel Kadri.