The Super Match was an annual and bi-annual pre-season friendly football tournament. The tournament was previously referred to as "Thomas Cook Trophy" until 2008, "Ferrostaal Cup" in 2010, "Winoly Cup" in 2012, and "Super Match by Carlsberg", due to sponsorship. Manchester City F.C. were the hosts of the competition. The game is usually the last before the Premier League opening match and features a highly reputed UEFA club.

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Super Match

Organising body	Manchester City F.C.
Founded	2004
Abolished	2017; 7 years ago (2017)
Region	Worldwide
Number of teams	2
Last champions	Manchester City (2017)

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Manchester City played against UEFA Champions League sides Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Lazio, Milan, Olympiacos, Porto, VfB Stuttgart, and Valencia in previous editions of the competition.

Super Matches which did not involve Manchester City were known as SuperGames and were played in Gothenburg, Sweden.

	Manchester City	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
	Arsenal	2012, 2013, 2016
	VfB Stuttgart	2015
	Borussia Dortmund	2010
	A.C. Milan	2008
	Valencia	2007
	Porto	2006
	Olympiacos	2005
	Lazio	2004
	West Ham United	2017

Bold indicates the participating team won the tournament that year.

The inaugural sponsor of the cup was travel agent Thomas Cook. In 2010, sponsorship of the competition moved to Ferrostaal, who had signed a representative deal with Manchester City. In 2012, the tournament again changed sponsors, this time to sports company "Winoly". In 2013, it was announced that Winoly had moved its sponsorship to a rival competition. On 5 June 2013, Danish Alcoholic beverage company Carlsberg took over sponsorship of the event, then known as the Super Match by Carlsberg. In 2015, there was no title sponsor for the competition.