2009 Peace Cup

This article is about 2009 Peace Cup Andalucia. For other uses, see 2009 Peace Cup Korea.

The 2009 Peace Cup Andalucia was an invitational friendly football tournament. It was the fourth edition of Peace Cup and was held in Spain from 24 July to 2 August in the cities of Madrid, Seville, Málaga, Jerez and Huelva. It was the first time that the tournament has been hosted by a nation other than South Korea. The winners of the tournament were Aston Villa, who defeated Juventus in the final.^[1] They succeeded Lyon, who were the previous holders of the tournament through winning the 2007 edition.^[2] It was one of seven 2009 pre-season friendly tournaments, the others being the Emirates Cup, the Barclays Asia Trophy, the World Football Challenge, the Wembley Cup, the Amsterdam Tournament and the Audi Cup.^[3]

2009 Peace Cup

2009 Copa de la Paz Andalucía
Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	24 July – 2 August
Teams	12 (from 4 confederations)
Venue	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Aston Villa (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	37 (2.47 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Hulk (Porto, 3 goals)
Best player(s)	Ashley Young (Aston Villa)
← 2007 2012 →

Several players scored their first goals for new clubs in the 2009 Peace Cup competition, though these goals do not impact their regular season statistics. These players included Cristiano Ronaldo scoring his first goal for Real Madrid,^[4] Diego scored his first goal for Juventus in the Peace Cup, and Marc Albrighton scored his first goal for Aston Villa in the Peace Cup. Aston Villa's Stiliyan Petrov suffered a dislocated shoulder in the competition's group stages that forced him to miss significant time with injury.^[5]

Teams

The following 12 teams confirmed to play in the tournament.^[6]

Team	League
Málaga	2009–10 La Liga
Real Madrid
Sevilla
Al-Ittihad	2009–10 Saudi Professional League
Aston Villa	2009–10 Premier League
Atlante	2009–10 Primera División de México
Beşiktaş	2009–10 Süper Lig
Juventus	2009–10 Serie A
LDU Quito	2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A
Lyon	2009–10 Ligue 1
Porto	2009–10 Primeira Liga
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2009 K League

Venues

After the previous three tournaments were held in South Korea, the Peace Cup Committee decided that the tournament would be hosted by another country. In 2007, the Peace Cup organizers were connected with Sports Ministry of Andalucia and Andalucia Football Federation, after the discussion with the Autonomous Community of Andalucia, they suggested the cities of Seville, Málaga, Huelva and Jerez to host the 2009 Peace Cup.^[7]

On 19 December 2007, it was announced in a press conference in Seville that the number of teams would be increased to 12. It was also confirmed that Real Madrid and Sevilla would be playing in the tournament.^[8] The Peace Cup committee continued to negotiate with other "big" clubs, by 13 April 2009, eight more participating clubs such as Juventus, Málaga, Lyon, Aston Villa, Celtic, Porto, Fenerbahçe and LDU Quito, were announced.^[9] Celtic and Fenerbahçe, however, were forced to pull out due to conflicts with UEFA Champions League qualifying ties; they were replaced by Atlante and Beşiktaş,^[10][11] respectively.

The official venue for the tournament was Andalucia, however some matches were played in Madrid.^[12]

Seville	Seville	Málaga
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	Estadio de la Cartuja	La Rosaleda
Capacity: 42,649	Capacity: 57,619	Capacity: 28,963
Jerez	Huelva	Madrid
Chapín	Estadio Nuevo Colombino	Santiago Bernabéu
Capacity: 20,300	Capacity: 21,670	Capacity: 80,354

Prize money

The champions and the runners-up received trophies as well as the corresponding cash prizes.^[13]

• Champions: €2,000,000
• Runners-up: €1,000,000
• Third and Fourth places: €500,000

Group stage

The 12 teams were divided into four groups of three teams. Each team played two matches in the group stage,^[14] and each group winners qualified to the knockout stage. The draw for the 2009 Peace Cup was staged in Seville on 16 April 2009.^[15]

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Juventus	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6	Advance to the semi-finals
Sevilla	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2	0	1	1	0	3	−3	1

Source: ^[14]

24 July 2009 (2009-07-24)

22:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Sevilla	1–2	Juventus
Squillaci 81'	Report	Amauri 26' Iaquinta 64'

La Cartuja, Seville^[16]

Attendance: 15,000^[17]

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

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26 July 2009 (2009-07-26)

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Sevilla	0–0	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
	Report

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville^[16]

Attendance: 2,000^[18]

Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

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28 July 2009 (2009-07-28)

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Juventus	3–0	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Iaquinta 40' Diego 52' Legrottaglie 70'	Report

Chapín, Jerez^[16]

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Real Madrid	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2	4	Advance to the semi-finals
LDU Quito	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	3
Al-Ittihad	2	0	1	1	2	4	−2	1

Source: ^[14]

24 July 2009

20:10 CEST (UTC+2)

LDU Quito	3–1	Al-Ittihad
Reasco 20' Ambrosi 42' Graf 72'	Report	Khariri 74'

Chapín, Jerez^[16]

Attendance: 500

Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

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26 July 2009

22:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Real Madrid	1–1	Al-Ittihad
Raúl 55'	Report	Aboucherouane 63'

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid^[16]

Attendance: 30,000^[19]

Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)

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28 July 2009

22:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Real Madrid	4–2	LDU Quito
Ronaldo 48' (pen.) Granero 52' Metzelder 71' Negredo 90+2'	Report	E. Vera 68', 86'

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid^[16]

Attendance: 45,000^[20]

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Aston Villa	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3	Advance to the semi-finals
Atlante	2	1	0	1	4	4	0	3
Málaga	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3

Source: ^[14]

25 July 2009

22:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Málaga	1–0	Aston Villa
Fernando 79'	Report

La Rosaleda, Málaga^[16]

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

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27 July 2009

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Málaga	1–3	Atlante
Luque 24'	Report	Pereyra 16' Márquez 66' Bermúdez 72'

La Rosaleda, Málaga^[16]

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

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29 July 2009

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Aston Villa	3–1	Atlante
Albrighton 38' Carew 48' A. Young 62'	Report	Davies 19' (o.g.)

La Rosaleda, Málaga^[16]

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Porto	2	1	1	0	2	0	+2	4	Advance to the semi-finals
Beşiktaş	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	2
Lyon	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

Source: ^[14]

25 July 2009

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Lyon	1–1	Beşiktaş
Källström 63'	Report	Nobre 84'

Estadio Nuevo Colombino, Huelva^[16]

Attendance: 300

Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

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27 July 2009

22:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Lyon	0–2	Porto
	Report	Hulk 9', 75'

Estadio Nuevo Colombino, Huelva^[16]

Attendance: 1,300

Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

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29 July 2009

22:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Beşiktaş	0–0	Porto
	Report

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville^[16]

Attendance: 500

Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

31 July 2009^[21]

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Porto	1–2	Aston Villa
Hulk 90' (pen.)	Report	Heskey 14' Sidwell 37'

La Rosaleda, Málaga^[16]

Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)

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31 July 2009

22:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Juventus	2–1	Real Madrid
Cannavaro 3' Salihamidžić 49'	Report	Ronaldo 42' (pen.)

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville^[16]

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

Final

2 August 2009

22:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Aston Villa	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Juventus
	Report
Penalties
Bannan Sidwell Lowry A. Young Herd Cuéllar	4–3	Iaquinta Trezeguet Amauri Melo Del Piero Legrottaglie

La Cartuja, Seville^[16]

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Goalscorers

Porto striker Hulk became the tournament's top scorer with three goals.

3 goals

• Hulk (Porto)

2 goals

• Vincenzo Iaquinta (Juventus)
• Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
• Enrique Vera (LDU Quito)

1 goal

• Saud Kariri (Al-Ittihad)
• Hicham Aboucherouane (Al-Ittihad)
• Marc Albrighton (Aston Villa)
• John Carew (Aston Villa)
• Ashley Young (Aston Villa)
• Emile Heskey (Aston Villa)
• Steve Sidwell (Aston Villa)
• Gabriel Pereyra (Atlante)
• Rafael Márquez Lugo (Atlante)
• Christian Bermúdez (Atlante)
• Mert Nobre (Beşiktaş)
• Amauri (Juventus)
• Diego (Juventus)
• Nicola Legrottaglie (Juventus)
• Hasan Salihamidžić (Juventus)
• Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus)
• Néicer Reasco (LDU Quito)
• Paúl Ambrosi (LDU Quito)
• Claudio Graf (LDU Quito)
• Kim Källström (Lyon)
• Fernando (Málaga)
• José Juan Luque (Málaga)
• Raúl (Real Madrid)
• Guti (Real Madrid)
• Christoph Metzelder (Real Madrid)
• Álvaro Negredo (Real Madrid)
• Sébastien Squillaci (Sevilla)

1 own goal

• Curtis Davies (against Atlante)

Broadcasting rights

The following broadcasting systems had the rights for the broadcast of 2009 Peace Cup.

Region/Country	Broadcaster(s)	Ref.
Brazil	SporTV	[22]
Ecuador	Teleamazonas[a]	[23]
Italy	La7[b]	[24]
Latin America	ESPN	[25]
Portugal	Sport TV	[26]
South Korea	SBS	[27]
Spain	LaSexta	[28]
United States	GOL TV	[29]

1. Only LDU Quito games, semi-finals and final
2. Only semi-finals and final