The Super Match was an annual and bi-annual pre-season friendly football 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 F.C. were 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 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 did not involve Manchester City were known as SuperGames and were played in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Tournament winners Ed. Year Winner Score Runner-up 2004 Manchester City Lazio 2005 Manchester City Olympiacos 2006 Porto Manchester City 2007 Valencia Manchester City 2008 Manchester City A.C. Milan 2009 2010 Borussia Dortmund Manchester City 2011 2012 Manchester City Arsenal 2013 Arsenal Manchester City 2014 2015 VfB Stuttgart Manchester City 2016 Arsenal Manchester City 2017 Manchester City West Ham United
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2004 Thomas Cook Trophy
2005 Thomas Cook Trophy
2006 Thomas Cook Trophy
2007 Thomas Cook Trophy
2008 Thomas Cook Trophy
2010 Ferrostaal Cup
2012 Winoly Cup
2013 Super Match by Carlsberg
2015 Super Match
2016 Super Match
2017 Super Match
Participating teams Manchester City 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017Arsenal 2012, 2013, 2016VfB Stuttgart2015 Borussia Dortmund 2010 A.C. Milan 2008 Valencia 2007Porto 2006Olympiacos 2005Lazio 2004West Ham United2017
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.
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