Saitama City Cup

The Saitama City Cup is an International Friendly Tournament held in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It has been hosted by Urawa Red Diamonds annually since 2003 at Saitama Stadium 2002 until 2008 edition. 2009 event was also planned and announced but cancelled later due to 2009 flu pandemic. 2010 and 2011 edition were hosted by Omiya Ardija thus held at NACK5 Stadium Ōmiya. After absence in 2012, 2013 event will be hosted by Urawa again and Arsenal F.C. will be non-Japanese invitees, while previous edition in 2011 was competed by Omiya and Urawa, without non-Japanese invitees first time.

2020 Saitama City Cup[]

9 February 2020

13:00 (UTC+9)

Omiya Ardija	0 – 1	Nacional
		Vecino 52'

NACK5 Stadium Omiya, Saitama

Attendance: 7,442

Referee: Masaaki Iemoto

2017 Saitama City Cup[]

12 February 2017

13:34 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	1 – 1	FC Seoul
Nagasawa 83'	Report	Lee Sang-ho 38'

Urawa Komaba Stadium, Saitama

Attendance: 11,444

Referee: Minoru Tōjō

2013 Saitama City Cup[]

26 July 2013

19:30 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	1 – 2	Arsenal F.C.
Abe 59'	Report	Podolski 49' Akpom 82'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 40,769

Referee: Kenji Ogiya

2011 Saitama City Cup[]

20 February 2011

13:34 (UTC+9)

Omiya Ardija	3 – 0	Urawa Red Diamonds
Kim 53' Rafael 74' Higashi 93'	(Report) (Report2)

NACK5 Stadium Ōmiya, Saitama

Attendance: 11,362

Referee: Yoshiro Imamura

2010 Saitama City Cup[]

13 February 2010

13:30 (UTC+9)

Omiya Ardija	5 – 0	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Hashimoto 14' 68' Rafael 20' Ishihara 48' 54'	(Report)

NACK5 Stadium Ōmiya, Saitama

Attendance: 6,053

Referee: Masaki Nabeshima

2008 Saitama City Cup[]

31 July 2008

19:32 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	2 – 4	Bayern Munich
Umesaki 56' Abe 80'	(Report)	Klose 15' Podolski 20' 42' 62'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 27,292

Referee: Kazuhiko Matsumura

2007 Saitama City Cup[]

17 July 2007

19:05 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	2 – 2	Manchester United
Uchidate 25' Ono 78'	(Report)	Fletcher 47' Ronaldo 51'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 58,716

Referee: Kazuhiko Matsumura

2006 Saitama City Cup[]

31 July 2006

19:04 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	1 – 0	Bayern Munich
Kurobe 88'	(Report)

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 29,019

Referee: Tsutomu Anazawa

2005 Saitama City Cup[]

15 June 2005

19:04 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	0 – 3	Barcelona
	(Report)	Xavi 11' Larsson 39' 77'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 57,143

Referee: Joji Kashihara

2004 Saitama City Cup[]

27 July 2004

19:05 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	1 – 0	Internazionale
Emerson 50'	(Report)

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 57,633

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

2003 Saitama City Cup[]

4 June 2003

19:10 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	2 – 2	Feyenoord
Tanaka 61' Emerson 62'		Bombarda 17' 57'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama

Attendance: 52,247