Peace Cup

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The Peace Cup is a football (soccer) tournament organized by the Sunmoon Soccer Foundation for Peace, which is connected to Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, which regards the competition between clubs from several continents as a way of world peace promotion and is held every two years in South Korea. In 2006 a women's tournament called the Peace Queen Cup was created, inviting 8 women's national teams from 5 continents.

1 Format
2 Prize money
3 Venues
4 Participating teams
- 4.1 2003 edition
- 4.2 2005 edition
5 List of champions
6 Titles by team
7 External links

[edit] Format

The competition is played between eight clubs, divided in two groups of four teams each. In the first stage, within their groups the teams play against each other once, and the winner of each group qualifies for the final, which is played in one single match.

[edit] Prize money

The prize money of the tournament, in both the 2003 and 2005 editions, is US$2,000,000 for the champion team and US$500,000 to the runner-up.

[edit] Venues

All the venues were used in the 2002 World Cup:

Busan Asiad
Daejeon Purple Arena
Gwangju 1985 Stadium
Seoul World Cup Stadium
Suwon Bigbird Stadium
Ulsan Big Crown Stadium

[edit] Participating teams

[edit] 2003 edition

Originally AS Roma (Italy), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) and São Paulo FC (Brazil) were scheduled to participate, but later withdrew.

Group A

Group B

[edit] 2005 edition

Group A

Group B

[edit] List of champions

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-Up
Year	Final
2003 Details	PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)	1 - 0	Olympique Lyonnais (France)
2005 Details	Tottenham Hotspur (England)	3 - 1	Olympique Lyonnais (France)