Organising body | EE[1] |
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Founded | 2015 |
Region | England |
Number of teams | 4 |
Current champions | F2 FC (First title) |
Most successful club(s) | Spencer FC (Two titles) |
Television broadcasters | YouTube (Spencer FC) |
Website | Wembley Cup with EE |
The Wembley Cup, also known as The Wembley Cup with EE, was a charity football tournament played at Wembley Stadium in London and held annually between 2015 through 2018. Before 2018, the tournament was contested by two teams who played one standard 90-minute match. In 2018, the tournament was expanded to four teams, who played each other in a round-robin group stage of 60-minute matches, not played at Wembley, before 30-minute semi-final and final games played on the same day at Wembley.[2]
Alongside the tournament, a companion video series was uploaded to the Spencer FC YouTube channel which would showcase a number of challenges to determine the squads for the final game. Squads consisted initially of YouTube content creators, with some ex-professionals (referred to in the series as "Legends"). In 2018, the squads were decided before the video series had started, the only exception being which legend was draft picked to play for each team.[3] The order of this draft pick was based on the final standings of the aforementioned group stage.
All matches were also uploaded to the Spencer FC YouTube channel, with matches at Wembley from 2016 onwards being livestreamed as well as being watched by a crowd in the stadium.[4][5][6]
The tournament was sponsored each year by mobile phone network EE, who also sponsor Wembley Stadium.[7]
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