2014 International Champions Cup

The 2014 International Champions Cup (or ICC) was a friendly association football tournament played in Canada and the United States. It began on July 24 when Olympiacos defeated Milan 3–0 at BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario and ended on August 4 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.^[2] This tournament followed the 2013 edition and was staged throughout the United States, with one match held in Canada. The participating teams were Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United of England; Milan, Inter Milan and Roma of Italy; Olympiacos of Greece; and defending champions Real Madrid of Spain.^[2] Manchester United won the tournament, having beaten Liverpool 3–1 in the final.^[3][4]

2014 International Champions Cup

Tournament details
Host countries	Canada United States
Dates	July 24 – August 4
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	13 (in 13 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (1st title)
Runners-up	Liverpool
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	38 (2.92 per match)
Attendance	642,134 (49,395 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Stevan Jovetić (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Wayne Rooney[1]
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The group match between Real Madrid and Manchester United at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan had an attendance of 109,318, a record crowd for a soccer match in the United States.^[5]

Teams

Country	Team	Location	Confederation	League
England	Liverpool	Liverpool	UEFA	Premier League
	Manchester City	Manchester
	Manchester United	Manchester
Italy	Milan	Milan		Serie A
	Roma	Rome
	Inter Milan	Milan
Greece	Olympiacos	Piraeus		Superleague Greece
Spain	Real Madrid	Madrid		La Liga

Venues

Canada
Toronto, Ontario
BMO Field
43°37′58″N 79°25′07″W
Capacity: 21,566

United States
Denver, Colorado	Berkeley, California	Landover, Maryland	Dallas, Texas	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sports Authority Field at Mile High	California Memorial Stadium	FedExField	Cotton Bowl	Lincoln Financial Field	Heinz Field
39°44′38″N 105°1′12″W	37°52′16″N 122°15′1″W	38°54′28″N 76°51′52″W	32°46′47″N 96°45′35″W	39°54′3″N 75°10′3″W	40°26′48″N 80°0′57″W
Capacity: 76,125	Capacity: 62,467	Capacity: 79,000	Capacity: 92,100	Capacity: 69,176	Capacity: 65,500
Ann Arbor, Michigan	Chicago, Illinois	New York, New York	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Charlotte, North Carolina	Miami Gardens, Florida
Michigan Stadium	Soldier Field	Yankee Stadium	TCF Bank Stadium	Bank of America Stadium	Sun Life Stadium
42°15′57″N 83°44′55″W	41°51′45″N 87°37′0″W	40°49′45″N 73°55′35″W	44.976°N 93.225°W / 44.976; -93.225	35°13′33″N 80°51′10″W	25°57′29″N 80°14′20″W
Capacity: 109,901	Capacity: 63,500	Capacity: 54,251	Capacity: 50,805	Capacity: 74,455	Capacity: 74,918

Format

The tournament consisted of two groups of four: Group A and Group B. The groups were played as a round-robin, with each team playing three matches. The winners of each group played in the final at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on August 4.^[6]

Three points were awarded for a win in regulation time, two for a win by penalty shootout, one for a loss by penalty shootout, and zero for a loss in regulation time.^[7] A team's placing was based on (a) points earned in the three group matches (b) head-to-head result, (c) goal differential, (d) goals scored.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WP	LP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Manchester United	3	2	1	0	0	6	3	+3	8	Advance to Final
2	Inter Milan	3	1	1	1	0	3	1	+2	6
3	Roma	3	1	0	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	Real Madrid	3	0	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

Source: International Champions Cup
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head result; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored

Matches

Manchester United	3–2	Roma
Rooney 36', 45+1' (pen.) Mata 39'	Report	Pjanić 75' Totti 89' (pen.)

July 26

14:10 (MDT)

Sports Authority Field, Denver, Colorado^[8]

Attendance: 54,116^[9]

Referee: Allen Chapman (United States)^[10]

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Real Madrid	1–1	Inter Milan
Bale 10'	Report	Icardi 68' (pen.)
Penalties
Isco Vázquez Nacho Illarramendi Mascarell	2–3	Vidić Nagatomo M'Vila Juan Jesus Icardi

July 26

15:00 (PDT)

California Memorial Stadium, Berkeley, California^[11]

Attendance: 62,583^[12]

Referee: Ricardo Salazar (United States)^[13]

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Manchester United	0–0	Inter Milan
	Report
Penalties
Young Hernández Cleverley Kagawa Fletcher	5–3	Guarín M'Vila Taïder Andreolli

July 29

19:00 (EDT)

FedExField, Landover, Maryland^[14]

Attendance: 61,238^[15]

Referee: Edvin Jurisevic (United States)^[16]

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Real Madrid	0–1	Roma
	Report	Totti 58'

July 29

20:15 (CDT)

Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas^[17]

Attendance: 57,512^[18]

Referee: Drew Fischer (Canada)^[19]

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Inter Milan	2–0	Roma
Vidić 45+2' Nagatomo 69'	Report

August 2

13:00 (EDT)

Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Attendance: 12,169^[20]

Referee: Geoff Gamble (Canada)

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Manchester United	3–1	Real Madrid
Young 20', 37' Hernández 80'	Report	Bale 27' (pen.)

August 2

16:06 (EDT)

Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Attendance: 109,318^[21]

Referee: Hilario Grajeda (United States)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WP	LP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Liverpool	3	2	1	0	0	5	2	+3	8	Advance to Final
2	Olympiacos	3	1	1	0	1	5	3	+2	5
3	Manchester City	3	1	0	2	0	9	5	+4	5
4	Milan	3	0	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Source: International Champions Cup
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head result; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored

Matches

Olympiacos	3–0	Milan
Domínguez 16' Diamantakos 49' Bouchalakis 77'	Report

July 24

20:00 (EDT)

BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario^[22]

Attendance: 10,603^[23]

Referee: Silviu Petrescu (Canada)^[24]

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Milan	1–5	Manchester City
Muntari 42'	Report	Jovetić 12', 58' Sinclair 14' Navas 23' Iheanacho 26'

July 27

16:00 (EDT)

Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Attendance: 34,347^[25]

Referee: Armando Villarreal (United States)

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Liverpool	1–0	Olympiacos
Sterling 5'	Report

July 27

17:00 (CDT)

Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois

Attendance: 36,170^[26]

Referee: Jose Carlos Rivero (United States)

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Manchester City	2–2	Liverpool
Jovetić 53', 67'	Report	Henderson 59' Sterling 85'
Penalties
Kolarov Touré Navas Iheanacho	1–3	Sturridge Can Henderson Lucas

July 30

19:00 (EDT)

Yankee Stadium, New York, New York

Attendance: 49,653^[27]

Referee: Silviu Petrescu (Canada)

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Olympiacos	2–2	Manchester City
Diamantakos 37', 66'	Report	Jovetić 35' Kolarov 89' (pen.)
Penalties
Lykogiannis Dossevi Kolovos Ghazaryan Papadopoulos Bouchalakis Papazoglou	5–4	Silva Kolarov Milner Sinclair Zuculini Guidetti Richards

August 2

14:00 (CDT)

TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Attendance: 34,047^[28]

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Milan	0–2	Liverpool
	Report	Allen 17' Suso 89'

August 2

18:30 (EDT)

Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina

Attendance: 69,364^[29]

Referee: David Gantar (Canada)

Final

Manchester United	3–1	Liverpool
Rooney 55' Mata 57' Lingard 88'	Report	Gerrard 14' (pen.)

August 4

20:00 (EDT)

Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida

Attendance: 51,014^[30]

Referee: Mark Geiger (United States)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Stevan Jovetić	Manchester City	5
2	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	3
	Dimitris Diamantakos	Olympiacos
4	Gareth Bale	Real Madrid	2
	Ashley Young	Manchester United
	Juan Mata	Manchester United
	Raheem Sterling	Liverpool
	Francesco Totti	Roma

Media coverage

Territory	Channel	Ref
Albania	Digitalb (SuperSport)
Arab League	Abu Dhabi Sports Channel
Australia	Fox Sports
Austria	Servus TV	[31]
Brazil	Fox Sports
Canada	Sportsnet World	[32]
China	CCTV-5 and CCTV-5+	[33]
Denmark	TV3 Sport	[34]
Estonia	Viasat Sport Baltic	[35]
France	beIN Sports	[36]
Germany	Servus TV	[31]
Greece	nova sports 1 (+ HD)	[37]
Hong Kong	Cable TV Hong Kong	[38]
India	SONY SIX HD
Indonesia	Indosiar	[39]
Iran	IRIB TV3
Israel	Sport2	[40]
Italy	Sky Sport
Netherlands	Sport1
Norway	Viasat
Philippines	ABS-CBN Sports and Action	[41]
Romania	Dolce Sport
Serbia	Arena Sport
South Korea	SBS Sports
Sweden	Viasat	[42]
Turkey	Kanal D, tv2	[43]
United Kingdom	Sky Sports, LFC TV and MUTV	[44][45][46]
United States	Fox Sports, NBCSN, ESPN Deportes	[47]
Vietnam	K+	[48]

See also

• World Football Challenge, an exhibition tournament for mid-season American clubs and pre-season European clubs that was held from 2009 until 2012.