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2012 King Cup of Champions

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4625968 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2012 King Cup of Champions, or The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, was the 37th season of King Cup of Champions since its establishment in 1957, and the 5th under the current edition. Al-Ahli were the defending champions.

Al-Ahli won the title for the second time in a row and their twelfth title overall after beating Al-Nassr 4–1 in the final.

Participating teams

* Number of appearance in King Cup of Champions since the 2008 season .

Fixtures and results

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Quarter-finals were played on 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29 April & 1 May 2012.

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

Semi-finals were played on 7, 8, 11, & 14 May 2012.

First leg

Second leg

Third place

Third place game was played on 17 May 2012.

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“2012 King Cup of Champions” enters the record as football tournament season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what King, Champions and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 1957, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around King, Champions and football.
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This entry incorporates text from “2012 King Cup of Champions” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.