The Nexen Manchester City Cup Canceled for 2020
The Nexen Manchester City Cup has grown over the last five years to be one of the largest and most competitive youth soccer tournaments in the United States. The Nexen Manchester City Cup represents the best international youth soccer tournament in the US – with top academies from Europe, Mexico, Australia, and the US all competing on live TV via Univision and ESPN. It has become clear, due to COVID 19 and current international travel restrictions, that generating an international event of this caliber is not safe or practical this summer. Therefore, Surf Cup Sports and Manchester City Football Club have together decided to cancel the 2020 tournament and turn their attention to planning the 2021 event.
“The International Super Group is the star of the show at our Nexen Manchester City Cup tournament, and without this featured bracket, it’s hard to host an event that is worthy of the Manchester City brand. If the current environment doesn’t allow for this elite caliber of talent, then we will wait until 2021 and continue to build this top international event”, Brian Enge CEO of Surf Cup Sports.
Cristina Mora, VP Americas for City Football Group, said: “The Nexen Manchester Cup is one of the highlights of our youth soccer calendar and it is with great regret that we have to cancel this year’s event. Sadly it isn’t possible to proceed with the tournament without complete certainty around the safety of attendees, who travel from across the world for this event. However, we are focused on planning a fantastic event for next year when we look forward to welcoming the players back onto the pitch.”
The Nexen Manchester City Cup will return over Memorial Day in 2021 in San Diego. We expect the turnout and the excitement to be high as international teams will be ready to prove themselves once again.
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The Nexen Man City Cup is a great tournament…to test our players, and our teams against some of the best youth Academy’s around the world— this is great…and it’s an incredible experience to travel as a group, and play in a beautiful area of the country.
Tournaments like this represent the highest level youth soccer competition in the United States. Our goal is to provide a viable path to collegiate and professional soccer opportunities for our participants, and initiatives of this nature further enhance our reputation among the youth soccer community. This tournament helps to grow the Surf Cup Sports brand nationally and further enables Manchester City to connect with fans across the United States.
