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The Southampton Cup is an upcoming unisex association football youth cup tournament. The competition, which was established in 2016 by Southampton F.C., is scheduled to run for eight days, from 5 to 13 August 2017, open to both professional academy teams (Academy Section) and non-elite teams (Premier Section). Some of the fixtures will be contested at the club's training ground Staplewood Campus. The tournament will feature boys' and girls' teams from countries such as; Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Croatia, Algeria, Canada and Switzerland. Initially four clubs signed up to the competition; Southampton, RC Deportivo de La Coruña, GNK Dinamo Zagreb and R.S.C. Anderlecht. In late January, it was announced that Premier League clubs Chelsea F.C. and West Ham United F.C., along with Portuguese side FC Porto, and the Kenyan Football Federation had signed up for the 2017 edition of the cup. The Kenyan national under-14 boys' team and the Slovenian national under-16 girls' team joined for the competition.

In May, it was announced that the second Southampton Cup event would be held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the home base of kit suppliers Under Armour￼￼￼￼ in December 2017. The Baltimore tournament is set to feature more than 150 grassroots teams from across the United States of America.

The following age categories are eligible for the 2017 tournament:
 * Boys Under-12s
 * Boys Under-14s
 * Girls Under-14s
 * Girls Under-16s

Winners and finals
A (p) marks the winner was determined after a penalty shootout