Super Match (association football)

Super Match
Organising bodyManchester City F.C.
Founded2004
Abolished2017; 7 years ago (2017)
RegionWorldwide
Number of teams2
Last championsEngland Manchester City (2017)

The Super Match was an annual and bi-annual pre-season friendly football tournament. The tournament was previously referred to as "Thomas Cook Trophy" until 2008, "Ferrostaal Cup" in 2010, "Winoly Cup" in 2012, and "Super Match by Carlsberg", due to sponsorship. Manchester City F.C. were the hosts of the competition. The game is usually the last before the Premier League opening match and features a highly reputed UEFA club.

Manchester City played against UEFA Champions League sides Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Lazio, Milan, Olympiacos, Porto, VfB Stuttgart, and Valencia in previous editions of the competition.

Super Matches which did not involve Manchester City were known as SuperGames and were played in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Tournament winners

Ed. Year Winner Score Runner-up
1
 2004 England Manchester City
3–1
 Italy Lazio
2
 2005 England Manchester City
3–1
 Greece Olympiacos
3
 2006 Portugal Porto
1–0
 England Manchester City
4
 2007 Spain Valencia
1–0
 England Manchester City
5
 2008 England Manchester City
1–0
 Italy A.C. Milan
–
 2009
(not held)
6
 2010 Germany Borussia Dortmund
3–1
 England Manchester City
–
 2011
(not held)
7
 2012 England Manchester City
2–0
 England Arsenal
8
 2013 England Arsenal
3–1
 England Manchester City
–
 2014
(not held)
9
 2015 Germany VfB Stuttgart
4–2
 England Manchester City
10
 2016 England Arsenal
3–2
 England Manchester City
11
 2017 England Manchester City
3–0
 England West Ham United

Match details

2004 Thomas Cook Trophy

Manchester City England3–1Italy Lazio
Anelka 1'
Macken 68'
Sibierski 74'		 Report Oddo 74' (pen.)
Attendance: 23,132

2005 Thomas Cook Trophy

Manchester City England3–1Greece Olympiacos
Vassell 65'
Wright-Phillips 75', 79'		 Report Touré 27'
Attendance: 20,000[1]

2006 Thomas Cook Trophy

Manchester City England0–1Portugal Porto
Report Adriano 43'
Attendance: 20,375

2007 Thomas Cook Trophy

Manchester City England0–1Spain Valencia
Report Silva 10'
Attendance: 27,902

2008 Thomas Cook Trophy

Manchester City England1–0Italy Milan
Bojinov 37' Report
Attendance: 25,181
Referee: Mark Halsey (England)

2010 Ferrostaal Cup

Borussia Dortmund Germany3–1England Manchester City
Barrios 9' (pen.)
Kagawa 50'
Lewandowski 81'		 Report Jô 11'
Attendance: 31,200[2]

2012 Winoly Cup

Manchester City England2–0England Arsenal
Zabaleta 42'
Y. Touré 44'		 Report
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Howard Webb (England)

2013 Super Match by Carlsberg

Manchester City England1–3England Arsenal
Negredo 80' Report Walcott 9'
Ramsey 59'
Giroud 62'
Attendance: 39,000[citation needed]
Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)[6]

2015 Super Match

VfB Stuttgart Germany4–2England Manchester City
Kostić 15'
Didavi 31'
Ginczek 36', 37'		 Report Iheanacho 84'
Džeko 88'
Attendance: 40,211

2016 Super Match

Manchester City England2–3England Arsenal
Agüero 30'
Iheanacho 88'		 Report Iwobi 50'
Walcott 73'
Akpom 85'
Referee: Martin Strombergsson (Sweden)

2017 Super Match

Manchester City England3–0England West Ham United
Gabriel Jesus 8'
Agüero 56'
Sterling 71'		 Report
Attendance: 6,237
Referee: Thoroddur Hjaltalin (Iceland)

Participating teams

England Manchester City 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
England Arsenal 2012, 2013, 2016
Germany VfB Stuttgart 2015
Germany Borussia Dortmund 2010
Italy A.C. Milan 2008
Spain Valencia 2007
Portugal Porto 2006
Greece Olympiacos 2005
Italy Lazio 2004
England West Ham United 2017

Bold indicates the participating team won the tournament that year.

Sponsorship

The inaugural sponsor of the cup was travel agent Thomas Cook. In 2010, sponsorship of the competition moved to Ferrostaal, who had signed a representative deal with Manchester City. In 2012, the tournament again changed sponsors, this time to sports company "Winoly". In 2013, it was announced that Winoly had moved its sponsorship to a rival competition. On 5 June 2013, Danish Alcoholic beverage company Carlsberg took over sponsorship of the event, then known as the Super Match by Carlsberg. In 2015, there was no title sponsor for the competition.

References

  1. ^ Manchester City 3 Olympiacos 1
  2. ^ Borussia Dortmund Ferrostaal Cup 2010/11
  3. ^ "Arsenal to face Man City in Helsinki".
  4. ^ "Manchester City to meet Arsenal in August friendly in Helsinki".
  5. ^ "City to face Arsenal inHelsinki".
  6. ^ A City hajtott, az Arsenal nyert