Super Match (association football)

The Super Match is an annual and bi-annual pre-season friendly 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 are 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 have 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 do not involve Manchester City are known as SuperGames and are played in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Year-by-year

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[6]
Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)[7]

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)

Tournament winners

Year Winner Runner-Up Score
2004 England Manchester City Italy Lazio 3–1
2005 England Manchester City Greece Olympiacos 3–1
2006 Portugal Porto England Manchester City 1–0
2007 Spain Valencia England Manchester City 1–0
2008 England Manchester City Italy Milan 1–0
2010 Germany Borussia Dortmund England Manchester City 3–1
2012 England Manchester City England Arsenal 2–0
2013 England Arsenal England Manchester City 3–1
2015 Germany VfB Stuttgart England Manchester City 4–2
2016 England Arsenal England Manchester City 3–2
2017 England Manchester City England West Ham United 3–0

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 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. ↑ Arsenal 3 Manchester City 1: Wenger seals win... but scoreline flatters solid Gunners
  7. ↑ A City hajtott, az Arsenal nyert
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