The 2013 Audi Cup was the third edition of the
Audi Cup, a two-day
association football tournament that featured four teams, and was played at the
Allianz Arena in
Munich,
Germany. The competition hosted the
2009 Audi Cup
The first edition of the Audi Cup was a two-day association football tournament that featured four teams, and was staged in late July 2009 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. The competition was organised and promoted by car manufacturer A ...
winners
Bayern Munich
Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...
, the
2012 Copa Sudamericana
The 2012 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes (officially the 2012 Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana de Clubes for sponsorship reasons) was the 11th edition of the Copa Sudamericana, South America's secondary international club football tournament organized ...
champions
São Paulo, the
2011–12 Premier League
The 2011–12 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 20th season of the Premier League since its establishment in 1992. The season began on 13 August 2011 and ended on 13 May 2012 with Manchester Ci ...
champions
Manchester City
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The tw ...
and perennial
Serie A contenders
Milan. The English and Brazilian clubs made their first appearances in the competition, while Bayern, as hosts, and Milan have been present in every Audi Cup so far. The winners of the tournament were Bayern Munich, who beat Manchester City 2–1 in the final. Milan defeated São Paulo 1–0 in the third place play-off.
Prior to the semi-final match between Bayern Munich and São Paulo, as the Bayern goalkeepers were warming up, advertising billboards located around the field were showing fan messages published via their
Twitter profiles using the
hashtag
A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the hash (also known as pound or octothorpe) sign, ''#''. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as Twitter or Instagram as a form of user-generated ...
#HelloAudiCup. One of the displayed messages stated, "''Ei,
Douglas
Douglas may refer to:
People
* Douglas (given name)
* Douglas (surname)
Animals
*Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking
*Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil W ...
, vai tomar no cu''" ("Hey, Douglas, go fuck yourself!").
It was sent by @DarkFabuloso, a fake profile that satirizes São Paulo player
Luís Fabiano, and was inadvertently approved by the staff responsible for selecting and displaying the messages.
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Participating teams
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Competition format
The competition took the format of the latter stages of a regular knock-out competition. The winners of each of the two matches on the first day competed against each other for the Audi Cup, whilst the two losing sides playing in a third-place match. The trophy was contested over two days, each day seeing two matches played back-to-back. The official matchups were announced on 19 June 2013.
Matches
''All times are local (CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
; UTC+02:00).''
Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Goalscorers
;2 goals
* Mario Mandžukić (Bayern Munich)
* Edin Džeko (Manchester City)
* Stephan El Shaarawy
Stephan El Shaarawy (born 27 October 1992) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Roma and the Italy national team. He is nicknamed ''Il Faraone'' (The Pharaoh), as his father is Egyptian.
El Shaarawy began his ...
(Milan)
;1 goal
* Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich)
* Mitchell Weiser (Bayern Munich)
* Aleksandar Kolarov
Aleksandar Kolarov (; born 10 November 1985) is a Serbian former professional footballer. Although primarily a left-back, Kolarov could also operate as a centre-back and anywhere along the left flank and was known for his overlapping attacking ru ...
(Manchester City)
* Álvaro Negredo
Álvaro Negredo Sánchez (; born 20 August 1985) is a Spanish professional Association football, footballer who plays for Cádiz CF, Cádiz as a Striker (association football), striker.
Nicknamed ''La fiera de Vallecas'' (The beast of Vallecas ...
(Manchester City)
* Micah Richards (Manchester City)
* David Silva (Manchester City)
* Kingsley Boateng
Kingsley Boateng (born 7 April 1994) is a Ghanaian-born Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger.
Club career
Boateng began his professional football career with Milan in 2013, and in the 2013–14 season Boateng was loaned to Cat ...
(Milan)
* Andrea Petagna
Andrea Petagna (; born 30 June 1995) is an Italian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for club Cagliari Calcio, Cagliari, on Loan (sports), loan from AC Monza, Monza. He has also ...
(Milan)
References
External links
Official website
Audi Cup Schedule & Fixtures
{{Friendly tournaments 2013
Audi Cup
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