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 3–1 Lazio
Anelka 1'
Macken 68'
Sibierski 74'		 Report Oddo 74' (pen.)
Attendance: 23,132

2005 Thomas Cook Trophy
Manchester City 3–1 Olympiacos
Vassell 65'
Wright-Phillips 75', 79'		 Report Touré 27'
Attendance: 20,000[1]

2006 Thomas Cook Trophy
Manchester City 0–1 Porto
Report Adriano 43'
Attendance: 20,375

2007 Thomas Cook Trophy
Manchester City 0–1 Valencia
Report Silva 10'
Attendance: 27,902

2008 Thomas Cook Trophy
Manchester City 1–0 Milan
Bojinov 37' Report
Attendance: 25,181
Referee: Mark Halsey (England)

2010 Ferrostaal Cup
Borussia Dortmund 3–1 Manchester City
Barrios 9' (pen.)
Kagawa 50'
Lewandowski 81'		 Report Jô 11'
Attendance: 31,200[2]

2012 Winoly Cup
Manchester City 2–0 Arsenal
Zabaleta 42'
Y. Touré 44'		 Report
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Howard Webb (England)

2013 Super Match by Carlsberg
Manchester City 1–3 Arsenal
Negredo 80' Report Walcott 9'
Ramsey 59'
Giroud 62'
Attendance: 39,000
Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)[6]

2015 Super Match
VfB Stuttgart 4–2 Manchester City
Kostić 15'
Didavi 31'
Ginczek 36', 37'		 Report Iheanacho 84'
Džeko 88'
Attendance: 40,211

2016 Super Match
Manchester City 2–3 Arsenal
Agüero 30'
Iheanacho 88'		 Report Iwobi 50'
Walcott 73'
Akpom 85'
Referee: Martin Strombergsson (Sweden)

2017 Super Match
Manchester City 3–0 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 Manchester City Lazio 3–1
2005 Olympiacos 3–1
2006 Porto Manchester City 1–0
2007 Valencia 1–0
2008 Manchester City A.C. Milan 1–0
2010 Borussia Dortmund Manchester City 3–1
2012 Manchester City Arsenal 2–0
2013 Arsenal Manchester City 3–1
2015 VfB Stuttgart 4–2
2016 Arsenal 3–2
2017 Manchester City West Ham United 3–0

Participating teams
Manchester City 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Arsenal 2012, 2013, 2016
VfB Stuttgart 2015
Borussia Dortmund 2010
A.C. Milan 2008
Valencia 2007
Porto 2006
Olympiacos 2005
Lazio 2004
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
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