2014 United Supercup

The 2014 United Supercup, officially named G-Drive 2014 United Supercup (also known as 2014 United Tournament[1][2][3][4]), was an exhibition football club tournament held in Israel from 30 January 2014 till 5 February 2014. It is the second edition of the United Tournament. The location was picked because the winter conditions would make it hard to play the games in Russia or Ukraine.[5]

2014 United Supercup
Tournament details
Host country Israel
Dates30 January – 5 February 2014
Teams4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Shakhtar Donetsk (1st title)
Runners-up Metallist Kharkiv
Third place Zenith Saint Petersburg
Fourth place CSKA Moscow
Tournament statistics
Matches played6
Goals scored13 (2.17 per match)
Top scorer(s) Douglas Costa
Darijo Srna (2 goals)
Best player(s) Darijo Srna

Summary

The four participating clubs were Shakhtar Donetsk, Metalist Kharkiv from Ukraine and Zenit St. Petersburg, CSKA Moscow from Russia.[6][7] The clubs were picked by the principle of two top placed clubs in the local championships.[5]

Before the tournament a press conference was held in Tel Aviv. Among the participants were Valery Gazzaev, the head of the committee in charge of the united championship, Mircea Lucescu, the manager of Shakhtar Donetsk, Leonid Slutskiy, the manager of PFC CSKA Moscow, Myron Markevych, the manager of Metallist Kharkiv, and Luciano Spalletti, the manager of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.[8] The tournament was also attended by Mikhail Fomenko, the manager of Ukraine national football team.[9]

Shakhtar Donetsk and PFC CSKA Moscow were based in Tel Aviv for the tournament, while Metallist Kharkiv in Netanya, and FC Zenit Saint Petersburg in Herzeliya.

The total prize money was mln, including for the winner, €250,000 for the runner-up, €220,000 for the third place and for the fourth place.[10] The games were broadcast by Football 1 and Football 2 channels in Ukraine and by Russia 2,[11] Sport 1 and 100TV channels in Russia.

The tournament format was round-robin (instead of two-legged ties for all pairs of clubs from different countries, as played previously).[12] In case of a draw at the end of the 90 minutes, penalties were used to decide the winner (however, a club winning on penalties gets 2 points and not 3, while a club losing on penalties gets 1 point for draw).[5]

The first two games of the tournament were watched by 3 million Russians, which is 1 million more than the previous edition average.[13]

The 2014 tournament was won by Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine, winning all 3 games.[14][15][16][17] Douglas Costa and Darijo Srna from Shakhtar Donetsk became the joint top scorers of the tournament scoring two goals each, Darijo Srna was also named the tournament best player.[18][19][19]

Teams
Team Recent domestic honours Continental performances
Shakhtar Donetsk 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League – Winner
2012–13 Ukrainian Cup – Winner		 2013–14 UEFA Champions League – Group stage
2013–14 UEFA Europa League – Round of 32
Metalist Kharkiv 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League – Runner-up 2013–14 UEFA Champions League – Qualifying
CSKA Moscow 2012–13 Russian Premier League – Winner
2012–13 Russian Cup – Winner		 2013–14 UEFA Champions League – Group stage
Zenit St. Petersburg 2012–13 Russian Premier League – Runner-up 2013–14 UEFA Champions League – Round of 16

Venues
Petah Tikva, Israel
HaMoshava Stadium
Capacity: 11,500

Standings
Pos Team Pld W PSW PSL L GF GA GD Pts
1 Shakhtar Donetsk 3300062+49
2 Metalist Kharkiv 3101123–14
3 Zenit St. Petersburg 310024403
4 CSKA Moscow 3010214–32

Matches
CSKA Moscow 0–0 Metalist Kharkiv
Report
Penalties
Tošić
Zreľák
Bazelyuk
Dzagoev 		4–2 Dević
Souza
Blanco
Gómez
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)
Shakhtar Donetsk 2–1 Zenit St. Petersburg
Teixeira  22'
Douglas Costa  90+3'		 Report Ryazantsev  81' (pen.)
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Liran Liani (Israel)
Zenit St. Petersburg 2–0 CSKA Moscow
Hulk  17'
Shatov  89'		 Report
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)
Metalist Kharkiv 0–2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Report Douglas Costa  10'
Srna  70'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Eitan Shmuelevich (Israel)
Zenit St. Petersburg 1–2 Metalist Kharkiv
Witsel  17' Report Gómez  52'
Marlos  76' (pen.)
Referee: Liran Liani (Israel)
CSKA Moscow 1–2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Tošić  8' Report Srna  40'
Taison  43'
Referee: Eli Hacmon (Israel)

Top scorers
Rank Nat. Player Goals (pen.) Team
1 Douglas Costa 2 Shakhtar
Darijo Srna 2 Shakhtar
2 Alex Teixeira 1 Shakhtar
Taison 1 Shakhtar
Hulk 1 Zenit
Aleksandr Ryazantsev 1 Zenit
Oleg Shatov 1 Zenit
Axel Witsel 1 Zenit
Zoran Tosic 1 CSKA
Alejandro Darío Gómez 1 Metallist
Marlos 1 Metallist

Winners
Winners of the 2014 United Supercup
Shakhtar Donetsk
First title

See also

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