Gothia Cup
| Gothia Cup | |
| Full name | Gothia World Youth Cup |
| founding | 1975 |
| Teams | 1730 (2017) |
| Record winner |
 IF Brommapojkarna
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| Website | www.gothiacup.se/ger/ |
The Gothia Cup is a 1975 organized and annually recurring football tournament for young people between the ages of 11 and 19, organized by the Gothenburg clubs BK Häcken and GAIS , which has been solely responsible for BK Häcken since the early 1980s. In terms of the number of participants, it is the largest football tournament in the world.
Teams from 140 countries have taken part since it was founded. This corresponds to a total of around one million players; the proportion of female players is 30%. The opening ceremony in 2011 saw 51,861, the final games played in the Ullevi Stadium were followed by 28,910 spectators.
Looking back, many (later) professional footballers also emerged from the football tournament. In 2005, an all-star team was formed from the winners' lists dating back 30 years. a. also include Alan Shearer , Alan McInally , Zé Roberto and Andrea Pirlo .
history
In 1975 the Gothia Cup was held for the first time; 275 teams from 5 countries took part. In 1985 there were 502 teams from 29 countries and in 1995 even 1094 teams from 48 countries. The previous record of 1615 teams from 78 countries from 2012 was exceeded in 2014 - the year of its 40th anniversary - with 1650 teams from 73 countries and 37,400 players.
The most successful team with 27 tournament victories is the IF Brommapojkarna sports club based in the Stockholm district of Bromma . The most successful German teams are FC Teutonia 1919 Weiden with four and BV Werther with three tournament wins. With 20 triumphs, Germany is the third most successful nation behind Sweden (198) and the United States (28).
The table shows the development of the number of participating teams as well as the internationality with regard to the number of participating nations since the Gothia Cup was founded.
Jahr Teams Nationen ––––––––––––––––––––– 1975 275 5 1976 320 8 1977 350 11 1978 400 20 1979 425 20 1980 390 18 1981 360 17 1982 265 18 1983 400 22 1984 440 30 1985 502 29 1986 550 31 1987 740 38 1988 754 33 1989 810 38 1990 940 42 1991 912 39 1992 745 41 1993 810 44 1994 917 47 1995 1094 48 1996 1133 46 1997 1158 52 1998 1124 56 1999 1186 58 2000 1173 48 2001 1184 60 2002 1217 51 2003 1319 46 2004 1476 57 2005 1446 54 2006 1459 62 2007 1551 59 2008 1571 61 2009 1505 58 2010 1567 65 2011 1570 70 2012 1615 78 2013 1545 75 2014 1650 73 2015 1754 74 2016 1661 80 2017 1730 82
Web links
- Official website for the Gothia Cup (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Origin on gothiacup.se
- ↑ Statistics 2014 on gothiacup.se (accessed on July 10, 2015)
- ↑ Our history. www.gothiacup.se, accessed July 23, 2018 .