Peace Cup

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The Peace Cup is an international football competition held by the Sunmoon Peace Football Foundation , which is very closely associated with the Unification Church of the Korean Sun Myung Moon . Associations from different continents compete against each other and should thus support world peace. Since it was founded in 2003, the tournament has been held in South Korea every two years . In 2009, however, the Peace Cup was held in Spain . The previous winners have all been top teams from Europe. The Dutch club PSV Eindhoven , the English from Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa , the French series champion Olympique Lyon and the traditional German club Hamburger SV have so far won the cup. Since the men's cup was internationally accepted, the organizers decided in 2006 to introduce an extra competition for women's football. This is called the Peace Queen Cup and is played by eight national teams from five continents. Since both tournaments take place in different years, an edition of the Peace Cup is held every year. The first winner of the women's tournament was the US women's national team .

Game mode

In the first tournaments, the cup was held in two groups of four teams each. The two group winners played the final against each other. For the 2009 tournament, the competition was increased to twelve participants, who were divided into four groups. The group winners qualified for the semi-finals.

Win bonus

The tournament winner receives almost two million US dollars , the losing finalist receives 500,000 dollars.

Participating teams

2003

Group A
Group B

2005

Group A
Group B

2007

Group A
Group B

2009

Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D

2012

Finals

year final
winner Result Second
2003 NetherlandsNetherlands PSV Eindhoven 1-0 FranceFrance Olympique Lyon
2005 EnglandEngland Tottenham Hotspur 3: 1 FranceFrance Olympique Lyon
2007 FranceFrance Olympique Lyon 1-0 EnglandEngland Bolton Wanderers
2009 EnglandEngland Aston Villa 4: 3 (n.E.) ItalyItaly Juventus Turin
2012 GermanyGermany Hamburger SV 1-0 Korea SouthSouth Korea Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

title

society winner Second Year winner Year second
1 FranceFrance Olympique Lyon 1 2 2007 2003, 2005
2 NetherlandsNetherlands PSV Eindhoven 1 0 2003
EnglandEngland Tottenham Hotspur 1 0 2005
EnglandEngland Aston Villa 1 0 2009
GermanyGermany Hamburger SV 1 0 2012
6th EnglandEngland Bolton Wanderers 0 1 2007
ItalyItaly Juventus Turin 0 1 2009
Korea SouthSouth Korea Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 0 1 2012

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