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The Amber Cup is a Polish indoor football tournament which takes place in January, when the Polish football league takes a winter break. The tournament which was first held at Hala Gryfia, Słupsk, in 2006, and held annually since 2008. In 2016 the competition was held in the Ergo Arena, Gdańsk due to the capacity being much higher than that of Hala Gryfia^[1], and the tournament has been held there each year since. The tournament was last held in 2018, with Wisła Płock being the last winners of the competition.

Format

The tournament is played over 2 days. The first day see's a children's tournament of 16 teams. The teams are split into 4 groups of 4, with the top two teams playing in the knock-out stages.

The second day sees the men's teams play. This is a similar format, with the 8 teams being split into 2 groups of 4. Each team plays each other once, with the top teams playing in a knockout stage before the 3rd place play-off and finals are played^[2].

History

In the early years of its formation, the tournament was for amateur clubs or teams from the lower divisions of Polish football. The organisers wanted to mix sport with football and create an event of "great fun" ^[3]. As the Amber Cup was getting more popular bigger teams accepted invitations to compete in the tournament. Wisła Kraków was one of the first "big" teams to take part in the tournament, and won it in 2010. As Gdańsk and Gdynia were not too far from Słupsk it was a plan to invite one of the teams to take part in the near future to gain popularity with a bigger following in future events. Lechia Gdańsk first took part in 2011, and have featured in every tournament since.

The Amber Cup is not just for the big teams however. While the tournament grew, it saw a mix of amateur teams facing professional players. In 2012, 2014 and 2015 it was an amateur team which came out on top and won the tournament. In 2016 the venue for the tournament was moved from Słupsk, to the Ergo Arena in Gdańsk. The new arena had a capacity of 15,000, and was the perfect place to see the tournament grow further in popularity. Since the move to Gdańsk fewer amateur teams have been invited, with more teams from Northern Poland taking part which play in the second or third tiers. As the tournament got more competitive the bigger teams started taking more established senior players from their squad, instead of the younger or second team players which used to take part in the tournament.

Cup Winners

References

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