Otten Cup

The Otten Cup is an annual friendly international youth tournament which is organized by the Dutch football club PSV Eindhoven for under-19 youth teams, and is held at De Herdgang.[1]

Otten Cup
Founded1947
RegionWorldwide
Number of teams8
Current championsInternazionale (1st title)
Most successful club(s)PSV (20 titles)
Television broadcastersEredivisie Live
Eurosport
Fox Sports
2017 Otten Cup
PSV - Pão de Açúcar during the Otten Cup on 31 May 2008.

History

Founded in 1947, the tournament was named after Frans Otten the former president of Philips. His name remains engraved in the trophy to this day. In the beginning years, the tournament was a regional cup, which quickly evolved into a national tournament with clubs from all over the country sending their under-19 youth teams for a chance at the trophy. It became an international tournament in 1957, and an intercontinental one since the end of the 20th Century. Several youth players who have participated in the competition have since made it to the highest level of professional football, such as Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, John Heitinga and Ibrahim Afellay.[2]

Cup winners

The first tournament was won by BVV from 's-Hertogenbosch, while Blauw-Wit from Amsterdam were the first club who were allowed to keep the trophy after winning it for the third time in 1954. Afterwards the rules were changed where a team would only be able to keep the trophy after winning it a total of five times or by winning the competition three times in a row. The second trophy was then retained by Sunderland AFC in 1963 following the club's third consecutive win of the Otten Cup. In 1967, 1978, 1988 and 2003, the third, fourth fifth and sixth edition of the trophy were retained by the hosts PSV themselves. While three years later Esporte Clube Vitória from Brazil retained the seventh edition of the trophy in 2006.[3][4]

Club Winner Year
PSV 20 1955, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2015
Ajax 7 1957, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1999
Vitória 6 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006
Blauw-Wit 6 1949, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1973
Sunderland 4 1961, 1962, 1963, 1970
Sparta Rotterdam 3 1972, 1980, 1982
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2 1969, 2010
Cercle Brugge 2 1975, 1979
Feyenoord 2 1951, 1974
Vitesse 2 1952, 1956
FC Barcelona 2 2011, 2012
F.C. Internazionale 1 2017
R.S.C. Anderlecht 1 2016
Red Bull Brasil 1 2014
Real Madrid 1 2013
FC Twente/Heracles 1 2008
Internacional 1 2007
VfB Stuttgart 1 2001
Ichiritsu Funabashi 1 2000
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1 1993
Willem II 1 1968
FC Volendam 1 1964
Patro Eisden Maasmechelen 1 1960
ADO Den Haag 1 1950
De Valk 1 1948
BVV 1 1947

References
  1. "information about the history of the Otten Cup". Archived from the original on 9 August 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  2. fantastisch deelnemersveld Otten Cup 2008 Archived 5 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Renowned youth teams take part in Otten Cup". Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  4. "Otten Cup U19". Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
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