Dallas Cup Explained

Founded:	1980
Region:	International
Current Champions:	Botafogo (2025)
Current:	2024 Dallas Cup
Most Successful Club:	Tigres UANL 4 titles (Supergroup)

The Dallas Cup is an annual international football tournament for invited youth teams. The tournament was established in 1980 and is held in Dallas, Texas, with FC Dallas serving as its host club. Venues used for the tournament include the Cotton Bowl and Toyota Stadium. The Dallas Cup includes divisions ranging from U-12 to U-19 in the Boys' tournament and U-15 through U-19 in the Dallas Cup Girls' Invitational presented by Mary Kay, which features girls' age groups. The Botafogo is the current champion of the elite U19 Gordon Jago Super Group. The first ever Dallas Cup saw an English club side from South London, St. Thomas More, win the U14 cup and elite international competition has been a cornerstone for the tournament ever since.

List of Champions

Following is the list with the main U-19 category champions by year:^[1]

Group A U-19

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1980	Texas Longhorns	United States
1981	Royal Navy
1982	Lagos Stars	Nigeria
1983	NSL Selects	Canada
1984	NSL Selects	Canada
1985	Trebor Lions	Nigeria
1986	Dallas Comets	United States
1987	Tahuichi
1988	Tahuichi
1989	Tahuichi
2024	Dallas Texans	United States

Supergroup U-19

The elite U19 Super Group was founded in 1990.^[2]

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1990	Tahuichi
1991	Dynamo Moscow
1992	West Ham United
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	Pumas UNAM	Mexico
2002	Nottingham Forest
2003	Tigres UANL	Mexico
2004	Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
2005	Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
2006	Dallas Texans	United States
2007	São Paulo	Brazil
2008	Liverpool
2009	São Paulo	Brazil
2010	Cruzeiro	Brazil
2011
	Eintracht Frankfurt	Germany
	Tigres UANL	Mexico
2012	Coritiba	Brazil
2013	Fulham
2014	River Plate	Argentina
2015	Coritiba	Brazil
2016	Everton
2017	FC Dallas	United States
2018	Tigres UANL	Mexico
2019	Tigres UANL	Mexico
2020	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Supergroup U-19 Not held
2022	Panama U-20	Panama
2023	Midtjylland	Denmark
2024	São Paulo	Brazil
2025	Botafogo	Brazil

Titles by team

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4 titles
Tahuichi
Tigres UANL	Mexico
São Paulo	Brazil
2 titles
Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
Corinthians	Brazil
NSL Select	Canada
Real Madrid	Spain
Vitória	Brazil
Coritiba	Brazil
1 title
Botafogo	Brazil
Comets	United States
Cruzeiro	Brazil
Dallas Texans	United States
Dynamo Moscow
Eintracht Frankfurt	Germany
Everton
FC Dallas	United States
Fulham
Lagos Stars	Nigeria
Liverpool
Midtjylland	Denmark
Nottingham Forest
Panama U-20	Panama
Pumas UNAM	Mexico
Royal Navy
River Plate	Argentina
San Lorenzo	Argentina
Texas Longhorns	United States
Trebor Lions	Nigeria
West Ham United

Titles by country

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Brazil
Mexico
United States
Argentina
Canada
Nigeria
Spain
Denmark
Germany
Panama

Notable players

Players that participated in the Dallas Cup who later played on professional teams and national teams

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dallas Cup . RSSSF . 9 April 2023 . 29 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230329164958/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/dallascup.html . live .
2. Web site: Past Champions . dallascup.org . 9 April 2023 . 10 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230410001034/https://www.dallascup.org/past-champions . live .