All participants in the Gothia Cup must make an age control to participate in the tournament. This is to make sure that all participants are eligible to participate in the age class they are enrolled in. 

After successful age control, each player receives an identification bracelet (Age bracelet) around his/her wrist with a color that corresponds to the year the player was born.

ID bracelets MUST be worn on wrist during the entire tournament. If one player in one way or another loses his/her bracelet, the player MUST come to Heden Exercishuset (in Heden) to make a new age verification, before the next game to be played. The player will NOT be allowed to play the next match without the ID/Age bracelet.

The bracelets for the different ages have the following colors:

With barely three months left for the tournament, we have managed to reach another milestone on Facebook. This weekend we passed namely 100,000 likes on our Facebook page.

Since Gothia Cup created his page on Facebook in 2009, the number of ”fans/likes” increased steadily. More and more each year choose to be a part of The World Youth Cup online. Today, almost exactly four years after the start  the page has reached more than 100 thousand fans.

This is to us at Gothia Cup absolutely amazing and this sets new goals for the future.

Kevin Phillips started his career in BH Soccer Academy and played Gothia Cup in 1988. With Kevin as right back, the team got to win the tournament after defeating Bordeaux Olympic in the final with 1-0.

As a professional footballer Kevin was moved to a striker roll and topped his career when he in 2000 became the Premier League’s top scorer with 30 goals for his club Sunderland. The same year, he won the Golden Boot, awarded to Europe’s top scorer.

Overall, Kevin has scored 248 goals as a professional footballer and played nine seasons in England’s top league, the Premier League, in which he has represented Sunderland, Southampton, Aston Villa and Birmingham City.

On those merits, Kevin Phillips was elected to the Gothia All Star Team where he joins, among others, Andrea Pirlo, Xabi Alonso and Alan Shearer.

Gothia All Star Team is a collection of players who played the finals in the Gothia Cup and had a professional careers in football.

This year we are building our own arena at Heden – The Gothia Arena. A new stadium for the finals in the tournament’s heart, where everyone can see football from around the world when the Gothia World Youth Cup is held here in Gothenburg in July.

The Gothia Finals 2013 will be played on July 19th and 20th. 13 exciting games played by 26 teams will encounter to win the cup. The finals this year will be played at Gothia Arena. A temporary arena for 14,000 spectators will be built in the middle of the tournament’s heart in Heden.

The arena will be completed before the tournament starts and it will be used during the tournament on all six game days. A total of 58 matches will be played at the new stadium.

Gamla Ullevi will be occupied by the European Championship for women and Robbie Williams will have his concert at Ullevi. We knew then that we needed a new solution.

- A large arena at Heden, which is the heart of the tournament, will give more people the opportunity to follow the Gothia Cup on site, says Gothia Cup tournament leader Lena Rönnefors.

- The new Gothia Arena will be a better framing of the tournament. A new Center Court. During the final days this will created a fantastic atmosphere when we hopefully fill the stadium.

As usual, Viasat will broadcast live from Gothia Cup. Overall, there will be approx. 40 hours broadcasting from the new arena. Viasat will broadcast the thrilling playoffs July 17-18 and on  July 19-20 the 13 finals.