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.
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.fantastisch deelnemersveld Otten Cup 2008
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.
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. Internazionale12017 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
External links Homepage PSV Otten Cup