Puskás Cup

Puskás Cup or Puskás-Suzuki Kupa is an international football tournament founded by the Ferenc Puskás Football Academy in Felcsút, Hungary and the Magyar Suzuki Corporation in 2008. The aim of the founders is to establish a club tournament which offers the opportunity for talented young footballers to measure themselves internationally at the U-17 age level and to establish a fitting memorial to Ferenc Puskás.^[1]

Puskás Cup

Founded	2008
Region	Hungary
Number of teams	6
Current champions	Real Madrid
Most successful club(s)	Budapest Honvéd Real Madrid (5 titles each)
Television broadcasters	Sport 1
Website	Official website

History

Real Madrid's Morata played at the 2009 Puskás Cup

In 2008 four teams competed for the first ever Puskás Cup trophy which was finally won by La Fabrica, the youth team of Ferenc Puskás's former club Real Madrid C.F.^[2]

In 2009 six teams participated and the final match was broadcast in three different countries (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania) and the official Real Madrid TV aired a summary of the tournament.^[3]

In 2010 AC Milan were the first Italian club to be invited to participate in the Puskás-Suzuki Cup. The best goalkeeper of the tournament was Georgios Kollias (Panathinaikos), the best player was Spidron Furlanos (Panathinaikos), and the top goalscorer was Valér Kapacina (Budapest Honvéd).^[4]

The 2012 Puskás Cup was won by Budapest Honvéd by beating the hosts, Puskás Akadémia 7-0 in the final. Among the seven Honvéd goals, Gergely Bobál scored 4 goals.^[5]

The 2014 Puskás Cup was won by Real Madrid by beating Puskás Akadémia 1-0 in the final at the Pancho Arena. This match coincided with the inauguration ceremony of the new football stadium in Felcsút.^[6] György Szöllősi, communication director of the Ferenc Puskás Football Academy, announced that there will be 4,500 spectators at the final of the 2014 Puskás Cup. Among the invited guests there will be the wife of Ferenc Puskás, the former Croatian football legend, Davor Šuker, the former German international and Hungary coach, Lothar Matthäus, former Videoton coach and Portugal international Paulo Sousa, and former Golden Team members Jenő Buzánszky and Gyula Grosics. The opening speech will be delivered by the president of the Hungarian Olympic Committee and former Hungarian MP Pál Schmitt and the president of the Spanish Football Federation, Ángel María Villar.^[7]

The 2015 Puskás Cup was won by Budapest Honvéd by beating three-time champions La Fábrica in the final on 6 April 2015 at the Pancho Arena in Felcsút.^[8] Hagi Academy finished third by beating Feyenoord Academy.^[9] The home side, Puskás Akadémia finished fifth by beating Panathinaikos 2-1.^[10]

Title-holders Budapest Honvéd won the 2016 Puskás Cup by beating the host club, Puskás Akadémia FC in the final in a penalty shoot-out.^[11] La Fabrica won the bronze medal by beating newcomers KRC Genk Jeugd in the third place play-off.^[12]

Results

Year		Winners	Score	Runners-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams
2008		La Fábrica	5–1	Puskás Akadémia		Panathinaikos	1–0	Budapest Honvéd		4
2009		Ferencváros	2–1	Budapest Honvéd		La Fábrica	3–2	Slovan Bratislava		6
2010		Budapest Honvéd	2–0	Panathinaikos		La Fábrica	2–0	Ferencváros		6
2011		Budapest Honvéd	1–1 (p. 5–4)	La Fábrica		Panathinaikos	3–2	Puskás Akadémia		6
2012		Budapest Honvéd	7–0	Puskás Akadémia		Austria Wien	0–0 (p. 4–3)	Panathinaikos		6
2013		La Fábrica	2–0	Panathinaikos		Budapest Honvéd	4–2	Puskás Akadémia		6
2014		La Fábrica	1–0	Puskás Akadémia		Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	Budapest Honvéd		6
2015		Budapest Honvéd	2–2 (p. 3–1)	La Fábrica		Hagi Academy	1–0	Feyenoord Academy		6
2016		Budapest Honvéd	1–1 (p. 5-4)	Puskás Akadémia		La Fábrica	3–0	KRC Genk Jeugd		6
2017		La Fábrica	4–0	Panathinaikos		Puskás Akadémia	1–1 (p. 7-6)	Budapest Honvéd		6
2018		Genk	3-1	Puskás Akadémia		Flamengo	2-1	Sporting
2019		Flamengo	4-2	Puskás Akadémia		Hagi Academy	4-0	Panathinaikos
2020		Postponed due to Covid-19
2021		Puskás Akadémia	1-0	Sporting CP		Budapest Honvéd	3-0	Osijek
2022		La Fábrica	4-0	Dinamo Kyiv		Flamengo	3-0	Puskás Akadémia

Statistics

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Top 4 finishes
Budapest Honvéd	5 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016)	1 (2009)	2 (2013, 2019)	3 (2008, 2014, 2017)	11
La Fábrica	5 (2008, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2022)	2 (2011, 2015)	3 (2009, 2010, 2016)	0	10
Ferencváros	1 (2009)	0	0	1 (2010)	2
Genk Jeugd	1 (2018)	0	0	1 (2016)	2
Puskás Akadémia	1 (2021)	6 (2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019)	1 (2017)	3 (2011, 2013, 2022)	11
Flamengo	1 (2019)	0	2 (2018, 2022)	0	3
Panathinaikos	0	3 (2010, 2013, 2017)	2 (2008, 2011)	4 (2012, 2019)	9
Sporting	0	1 (2021)	0	1 (2018)	2
Dynamo Kyiv	0	1 (2022)	0	0	1
Austria Wien	0	0	1 (2012)	0	1
Dinamo Zagreb	0	0	1 (2014)	0	1
Hagi Academy	0	0	1 (2015, 2019)	0	1
Slovan Bratislava	0	0	0	1 (2009)	1
Feyenoord Academy	0	0	0	1 (2015)	1
Osijek	0	0	0	1 (2021)	1

Participation

Club	Participation	Year
Puskás Akadémia	10	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Budapest Honvéd	10	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
La Fábrica	10	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Panathinaikos	10	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Hagi Football Academy	5	2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
Ferencváros	3	2009, 2010, 2011
Slovan Bratislava	1	2009
AC Milan	1	2010
Austria Wien	1	2012
Northcote City FC	1	2013
Dinamo Zagreb	1	2014
Heidelberg United FC	1	2014
Feyenoord Academy	1	2015
Genk Jeugd	1	2016
Bayern Munich	1	2017
Sporting	1	2017