EE Wembley Cup

EE Wembley Cup
The logo of the final Wembley Cup in 2018
Organising bodyEE[1]
Founded2015; 9 years ago (2015)
RegionEngland
Number of teams4
Current championsF2 FC (First title)
Most successful club(s)Spencer FC (Two titles)
Television broadcastersYouTube (Spencer FC)
WebsiteWembley 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]

  1. ^ "The Wembley Cup with EE: Portrait of an activation". SportBusiness. SBG Companies. 13 October 2017. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  2. ^ "HASHTAG vs REBEL & F2 vs XO!- Wembley Cup 2018 Group Stage Ep1". Spencer FC. 11 November 2018. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2020 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "THE WEMBLEY CUP 2016: LIVE FINAL - Spencer FC vs Weller Wanderers". Spencer FC. 2 September 2016. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2020 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ "Wembley Cup 2017 LIVE FINAL: Hashtag United vs Tekkers Town". Spencer FC. 7 October 2017. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2020 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "Wembley Cup LIVE FINAL 2018". Spencer FC. 25 November 2018. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2020 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ "Hashtag win the Wembley Cup". Hashtag United. 10 October 2017 – via YouTube.