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Gothia Cup (Sweden)

  • July, 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Gothia Cup is a youth association football tournament held annually in Gothenburg, Sweden, open for both boys and girls of ages 11 to 19 years. With respect to the number of participants, it is the world's largest football tournament: in 2007, a total of 34,200 players and team leaders from 1585 teams and 65 nations participated. Gothia Cup was started in 1975 with 275 participating teams, and the current champions are Wolverhampton Wanderers

Spanning one week in July each year, the event becomes the dominant event in Gothenburg, with (as of 2006) 4,320 games played on 91 fields, and 300,000 visitors to the centre on Heden. According to the tourist authorities of Gothenburg, the 2006 Gothia Cup generated 282 million Swedish kronor in tourist income for Gothenburg city and 118 million kronor in tax income for Sweden.
Teams from several countries participate. These include
Norway
Iceland
Bolivia
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
United States
Canada
Australia
Philippines
Bangladesh
Malaysia
Thailand
Mongolia
India
Germany
Mexico
El Salvador
Guatemala
Venezuela
Colombia
Peru
Argentina
Brazil
England
Zambia
Uganda
Tanzania
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Morocco
  Sudan
Palestine
Jordan
Iraq
Algeria
Lebanon
Russia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Armenia
Moldavia
Ukraine
Czech Republic
Slovakia,
Poland
Romania
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Hungary
Republic of Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo
Spain
Greece
Malta
Serbia
Montenegro
Croatia
Turkey
and Italy