Dallas Cup

Dallas Cup

Founded	1980
Region	International
Number of teams	12
Current champions	Cruzeiro (2010)
Most successful club	Tahuichi Academy (4 times)
Dallas Cup 2011

The Dallas Cup is an international football tournament for invited youth teams, held annually in Dallas, Texas. It was first held in 1980. The current champion is Cruzeiro. The host club of Dallas Cup is the Texas Longhorns.

List of Supergroup champions

Year	Champion	Country
1980	Texas Longhorns	USA
1981	Royal Navy	England
1982	Lagos Stars	Nigeria
1983	NSL Select	Canada
1984	NSL Select	Canada
1985	Trebor Lions	Nigeria
1986	Comets	USA
1987	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1988	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1989	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1990	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1991	Dynamo Moscow	Russia
1992	West Ham	England
1993	Real Madrid	Spain
1994	Real Madrid	Spain
1995	São Paulo	Brazil
1996	Vitória	Brazil
1997	Vitória	Brazil
1998	San Lorenzo	Argentina
1999	Corinthians	Brazil
2000	Corinthians	Brazil
2001	UNAM Pumas	Mexico
2002	Nottingham Forest	England
2003	Tigres	Mexico
2004	Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
2005	Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
2006	Dallas Texans	USA
2007	São Paulo	Brazil
2008	Liverpool	England
2009	São Paulo	Brazil
2010	Cruzeiro	Brazil
2011
	Eintracht Frankfurt	Germany
	Tigres	Mexico

Titles by team

Team	Country
4 titles
Tahuichi	Bolivia
3 titles
São Paulo	Brazil
2 titles
Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
Corinthians	Brazil
NSL Select	Canada
Real Madrid	Spain
Vitória	Brazil
Tigres	Mexico
1 title
Comets	USA
Cruzeiro	Brazil
Dallas Texans	USA
Dynamo Moscow	Russia
Eintracht Frankfurt	Germany
Lagos Stars	Nigeria
Liverpool	England
Nottingham Forest	England
Royal Navy	England
San Lorenzo	Argentina
Texas Longhorns	USA
Trebor Lions	Nigeria
UNAM Pumas	Mexico
West Ham	England

Titles by country

Country
10 titles
Brazil
4 titles
Bolivia
England
3 titles
Mexico
USA
2 titles
Canada
Nigeria
Spain
1 title
Argentina
Germany
Russia

Notable players

The list of Dallas Cup alumni is like a "Who's Who" in the world of professional soccer. Dallas Cup has been very fortunate to have had such high caliber teams compete over the past 27 years and with those teams top players have gone on to play for professional clubs all around the world.

Professional players that played in Dallas Cup who are now on professional teams and World Cup teams are:

Alumni Player	Professional Team	National Team
Clint Dempsey	Fulham FC	USA
Adolfo Bautista	Guadalajara (Chivas)	Mexico
Diego Ordaz	CF Monterrey
Gerardo Torrado	Cruz Azul	Mexico
Jaime Lozano	Tigres	Mexico
Gerardo Galindo	Pumas
Duilio Davino	Club America
Braulio Luna	Veracruz
Alberto Medina	Guadalajara (Chivas)	Mexico
Gonzalo Pineda	Guadalajara (Chivas)	Mexico
Rafael Márquez	FC Barcelona (Spain)	Mexico
Israel Lopez	Toluca
Óscar Rojas	Club America	Mexico
Salvador Carmona	Cruz Azul
Pierre Ibarra	CF Monterrey
José de Jesús Corona	Tecos UAG	Mexico
Luis Perez	CF Monterrey	Mexico
Ramon Ramirez	Chivas USA
Francisco Rodriguez	Guadalajara (Chivas)	Mexico
Raul	Real Madrid	Spain
David Beckham	Los Angeles Galaxy	England
Maicon	Internazionale Milano	Brazil
Luisão	Benfica	Brazil
Landon Donovan	Los Angeles Galaxy	USA
Gary Young	Dallas Sidekicks	USA
Caesar Cervin	Dallas Sidekicks	USA
Nick Efthimiou	Dallas Sidekicks	USA
Jeff Agoos	San Jose Earthquakes	USA
Freddie Adu	Çaykur Rizespor	USA
DaMarcus Beasley	Hannover 96	USA
John O'Brien	AJAX	USA
Jonathan Spector West Ham	USA
Brian McBride	Retired	USA
Oguchi Onyewu,	A.C. Milan (Loan at FC Twente)	USA
Michael Owen,	Manchester United	England
Wayne Rooney,	Manchester United	England
Peter Crouch,	Tottenham Hotspur,	England
Jermain Defoe,	Tottenham Hotspur, England
Harry Kewell,	Galatasaray,	Australia
Fábio Costa,	Santos FC
Xavier,	EC Vitória
Allan Dellon,	EC Vitória
Kléber,	São Paulo FC	Brazil
Edu,	Valencia,	Brazil
Rubinho,	Corinthians	Brazil
Gil,	Corinthians	Brazil
Bobby Convey	San Jose Earthquakes,	USA
Edmílson,	FC Barcelona	Brazil
Schumache,	Ascoli
Ewerthon,	Real Zaragoza,	Brazil
Ledley King,	Tottenham Hotspur	England
Ian Harte,	Leeds United,	Ireland
Michael Carrick	Manchester United	England
Vincenzo Bernardo	New York/New Jersey MetroStars	USA
Hakeem Olajuwon	Retired NBA All-Star	Nigeria

External links

• Official website