United Tournament

The United Tournament or United Supercup was an exhibition football club tournament between two best clubs from Ukraine and two from Russia.[1][2] The context of the tournament were the talks which are held regarding creating the United CIS championship, or joint Russia–Ukraine league.[3] The organisers of the tournament were the same people in charge of drafting a proposal for the united league.[4] (two-legged ties for all pairs of clubs from different countries,),[5][6][7] but at the second edition it was changed to a round-robin.[8]

United Tournament
Founded2013
RegionRussia, Ukraine (UEFA)
Number of teams4
Current champions Shakhtar Donetsk

In 2014, the War in Donbass and conflict between Russia and Ukraine put the idea to create a united tournament between the nations on halt.[9]

History

The idea of a tournament between the top teams of Russia in Ukraine was already tried in the past as the United Tournament was called by many an incarnation of the original tournament (including the original format).[5][6][7][10][11][4] The context of the tournament was talks which were held regarding creating the United CIS championship, or joint Russia–Ukraine league.[12] The organisers of the tournament were the same people in charge of drafting a proposal for the united league.[4]

On 22 January 2013, the Super Cup of Champions took place in the United Arab Emirates[13][14] between the winner of the Ukrainian Premier League, Shakhtar Donetsk, and Russian Premier League, Zenit St. Petersburg.[15][16] The trophy was won by Shakhtar Donetsk who beat Zenit St. Petersburg with a 3–1 score.[17][18][19]

Zenit St. Petersburg 1 – 3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Zyryanov  35' Stats
Live Text
Report		 Mkhitaryan  21', 39'
Eduardo  79'
Attendance: 300[20] or 1,500[21]
Referee: Bader Abdullah (UAE)

2013

The first edition of the tournament, 2013 United Tournament, took place between 27 June – 7 July 2013 and included Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv from Ukraine; Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Spartak Moscow from Russia. The format of the tournament was two-legged ties for all pairs of clubs from different countries. The host cities were Donetsk, Kyiv and Ukraine. Dynamo Kyiv won the 2013 United Tournament, after beating Spartak Moscow in the last game.[22][23]

2014

The second edition, 2014 United Supercup, took place in Israel between 30 January 2013 – 5 February 2014. Four teams participated in it: Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv from Ukraine; Zenit St. Petersburg and CSKA Moscow from Russia.[1][2] The clubs were picked by the principle of two top placed clubs in the local championships.[24] G-Drive became the edition official sponsor.[25] Before the tournament a press conference was held in Tel Aviv. Among the participants were Valery Gazzaev, the head of the committee in charge of the united championship, Mircea Lucescu, the manager of Shakhtar Donetsk, Leonid Slutskiy, the manager of PFC CSKA Moscow, Myron Markevych, the manager of Metallist Kharkiv, and Luciano Spalletti, the manager of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.[26] The tournament format became round-robin (instead of two-legged ties for all pairs of clubs from different countries, as played previously).[8] The first two games of the tournament were watched by 3 million Russians, which is 1 million more than the previous edition average.[27] The 2014 tournament was won by Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine, winning all 3 games.[28][29][30][31] Dario Srna was named the best player of the tournament.[32]

Results
Name Winner Runner-up Third Fourth Date Venues
2013 United Tournament Dynamo Kyiv Spartak Moscow Zenit St. Petersburg Shakhtar Donetsk 27 June – 7 July 2013 Donetsk, Kyiv
Moscow
2014 United Supercup Shakhtar Donetsk Metallist Kharkiv Zenit St. Petersburg CSKA Moscow 30 January – 5 February 2014 Petah Tikva

Performances by country
Country Winners Runners-up Winning clubs
 Ukraine 2 1 Dynamo Kyiv (1), Shakhtar Donetsk (1)
 Russia 0 1

See also

References
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  2. Terrikon: 2014 United Tournament
  3. "United Russian–Ukrainian football league could start in 2014, Gazprom CEO". Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
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  10. "В Объединенном турнире-2014 сыграют "Зенит", ЦСКА, "Шахтер" и "Металлист"".
  11. Объединённый турнир: часть 2
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  13. Korrespondent.net: Шахтер выиграл у Зенита Суперкубок Чемпионов
  14. GiveMeSport: Referee slips and tackles Zenit star in Champions Super Cup clash
  15. Sports.Ru: Зенит и Шахтер разыграют Суперкубок чемпионов
  16. Шахтар переміг Зеніт у матчі за Суперкубок чемпіонів
  17. Видеообзор лучших моментов матча Шахтер –Зенит
  18. Суперкубок чемпионов – у дончан. Зенит –Шахтер – 1:3
  19. Sovetsky Sport: Зенит – Шахтер – 1:3
  20. FC Zenit – Match Report
  21. FC Shakhtar – Match Report
  22. "Yanukovych congratulates Dynamo Kyiv on winning united tournament". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
  23. Ukrinform Photo
  24. http://football.sport-express.ru/osk/about/
  25. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  26. "В Тель-Авиве состоится пресс-конференция. СПОРТ-ЭКСПРЕСС". Football.sport-express.ru. 2014-01-22. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  27. "Первые две игры объединенного Суперкубка посмотрели 3 миллиона россиян - Футбол". Sports.ru. 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  28. "Шахтер - ЦСКА 2:1. Без паники". 5 February 2014.
  29. ""Шахтер" со 100% результатом выиграл Объединенный Суперкубок".
  30. ""Шахтер" обыграл ЦСКА и выиграл Объединенный Суперкубок".
  31. ""Шахтер" выиграл Объединенный Суперкубок, ЦСКА занял последнее место".
  32. "Итоги Объединенного суперкубка. "Срна из сна"".
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