The tournament
The PUSKÁS-SUZUKI CUP is an international youth football tournament jointly founded by the Ferenc Puskás Football Academy in Felcsút 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. It is the aim of the founders to hold the tournament annually with an increasing and changing field of participants, but without ever forgetting those clubs which played an important role in the career of Ferenc Puskás. In the inaugural year it is those clubs at which the legendary number 10 achieved his greatest successes, and to which he was most spiritually attached, who received invitations.
Useful to know
- Matches shall consist of 2x40 minute halves, in accordance with international regulations. The VIP tournament and Old Boy’s teams shall play matches of 45 minutes. In tournament such as this teams often finish on the same points. In order to determine the final placings in such a situation each team shall take three penalties each at the end of each match, going to sudden death if necessary. Should teams eventually finish equal on points their respective penalty shootout records shall be taken into account. If any of the placing play-off matches end in a draw the teams will take five penalties each in a shootout to determine the winner.
- At the request of Austria Vienna this year’s teams have been exempted from the rule that states that a maximum of 5 players born later than 1995 may be on the pitch at the same time for one team. Also, in the event of heavy rain the organizers shall hold the matches on the artificial grass pitch.
- A maximum of five substitutes per team is permitted during each match.
- In all participating teams a maximum of three loan players may take part; these players do not have to be registered players with the club, but they must appear on the 20-person list and naturally must also be footballers born after 1 January 1995.
