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Uhrencup
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Tournament details
Host countrySwitzerland rectangle Switzerland
Dates10–14 July
Teams(from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)(in 2 host cities)
Final positions
ChampionsFlag of England Wolverhampton Wanderers (1st title)
Runner-upFlag of Netherlands Feyenoord
Third placeFlag of Switzerland Young Boys
Fourth placeFlag of Switzerland FC Basel
Tournament statistics
Matches played4
Goals scored15 (3.75 per match)
Top scorer(s)Bonatini, Mir, van Persie
(2 goals each)

The Uhrencup is a club football tournament, held annually in Grenchen and Biel in Switzerland. The Uhrencup is seen as a testament to the major influence that is exercised by the local industry on the cultural lives of the areas residents. The tournament usually features four teams (sometimes more), each playing two matches, and is held in July as a friendly tournament, the format of which tends to be fluid. For the teams taking part, the tournament is a welcome opportunity to prepare for the upcoming football season.

Origin[]

Founded in 1962 by representatives of Grenchen's watchmaking industry, the first Uhrencup was held to celebrate the inauguration of the new grandstand at the local Brühl stadium. Due to the tournament's reverberating success it was repeated the following year and, thanks to the sponsoring from the local watch industry, it continues to be held annually (with the exception of 1967, 1974 and 2012).

Uhrencup winners by year[]

 Year  Placements
Winner 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th place
1962 Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Belgium Cercle Brugge K.S.V. Flag of Italy Calcio Como Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1963 Flag of England Ipswich Town Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Netherlands Sparta Rotterdam
1964 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Germany Karlsruher SC Flag of France Nîmes Olympique Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1965 Flag of Italy Lanerossi Vicenza Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.
1966 Flag of France FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Italy Lanerossi Vicenza Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1967 Not held
1968 Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of France FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1969 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Lausanne-Sport
1970 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1971 Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Lausanne-Sport Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1972 Flag of Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Basel
1973 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1974 Not held
1975 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1976 Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1977 Flag of Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1978 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1979 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC La Chaux-de-Fonds Flag of Switzerland FC Luzern
1980 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC Luzern
1981 Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Luzern Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1982 Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Aarau Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1983 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1984 Flag of Switzerland Servette FC Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1985 Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland Servette FC
1986 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland Grasshopper Club Zürich Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1987 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Poland Górnik Zabrze Flag of Switzerland FC Basel
1988 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Czechoslovakia FC Nitra Flag of Netherlands FC Twente
1989 Flag of Yugoslavia FK Partizan Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich
1990
0
0
Flag of Poland Górnik Zabrze Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Lugano Flag of Switzerland FC Aarau
Eliminated (with the other two) as the last of group 1: Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
Eliminated as severed bottom of Group 2: Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich
1991 Flag of Germany 1. FC Köln Flag of Switzerland FC Sion Flag of Poland Olimpia Poznań Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1992 Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich Flag of Switzerland SR Delémont Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1993 Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland SR Delémont
1994 Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich Flag of Switzerland SR Delémont Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Schaffhausen
1995 Flag of Switzerland FC Aarau Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1996 Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn Flag of Switzerland SV Lyss Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
1997 Flag of Switzerland FC Subingen Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland SV Lyss
1998 Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn Flag of Switzerland SR Delémont Flag of Switzerland FC Subingen Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
1999 Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn Flag of Switzerland FC Langenthal Flag of Switzerland FC Thun
2000 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
2001 Flag of Switzerland Grasshopper Club Zürich Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
2002 Flag of Switzerland Servette FC Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Aarau Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen
2003 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland Grasshopper Club Zürich Flag of Austria SC Bregenz
2004 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Germany FC Schalke 04
2005 Flag of Turkey Trabzonspor Flag of Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Basel
2006 Flag of Switzerland FC Zürich/FC Basel Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Germany Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Flag of Germany 1. FC Köln (both third)
2007 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Austria FC Red Bull Salzburg Flag of Scotland Celtic F.C.
2008 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Germany Borussia Dortmund Flag of Switzerland FC Luzern Flag of Poland Legia Warsaw
2009 Flag of Ukraine FC Shakhtar Donetsk Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Greece Panathinaikos F.C.
2010 Flag of Germany VfB Stuttgart Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Netherlands FC Twente Flag of Spain Deportivo de La Coruña
2011 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of England West Ham United Flag of Germany Hertha BSC
2012 Not held
2013 Flag of Switzerland FC Basel Flag of Serbia Red Star Belgrade Flag of Germany Fortuna Düsseldorf Flag of Switzerland Grasshopper Club Zürich
2014 Not held
2015 Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Flag of Germany B. Mönchengladbach Flag of Switzerland FC Sion Flag of Austria A. Salzburg
2016 Flag of Turkey Galatasaray Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Germany B. Mönchengladbach
2017 Flag of England Stoke City Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Portugal S.L. Benfica Flag of SwitzerlandNeuchâtel Xamax
2018 Flag of England Wolverhampton Wanderers Flag of Netherlands Feyenoord Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Switzerland FC Basel
2019 Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys Flag of Germany Eintracht Frankfurt Flag of England Crystal Palace Flag of Switzerland FC Luzern

Titles by team[]

Team Years won Titles
Flag of Switzerland FC Basel 1969, 1970, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013 13
Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys 1964, 1973, 1975, 1987, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2019 8
Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen 1962, 1971, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1996, 1999 7
Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich 1976, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2006 5
Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne 1968, 2015 2
Flag of Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax 1972, 1977 2
Flag of Switzerland Servette FC 1984, 2002 2
Flag of Germany 1. FC Köln 1991 1
Flag of Switzerland FC Aarau 1995 1
Flag of Ukraine FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2009 1
Flag of France FC Sochaux-Montbéliard 1966 1
Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn 1998 1
Flag of Switzerland FC Subingen 1997 1
Flag of Yugoslavia FK Partizan 1989 1
Flag of Turkey Galatasaray 2016 1
Flag of Switzerland Grasshopper Club Zürich 2001 1
Flag of Poland Górnik Zabrze 1990 1
Flag of England Ipswich Town 1963 1
Flag of Italy Lanerossi Vicenza 1965 1
Flag of England Stoke City 2017 1
Flag of Turkey Trabzonspor 2005 1
Flag of Germany VfB Stuttgart 2010 1
Flag of England Wolverhampton Wanderers 2018 1

Participation by club[]

Team Participant
Flag of Switzerland FC Grenchen 39
Flag of Switzerland FC Basel 30
Flag of Switzerland BSC Young Boys 24
Flag of Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne 23
Flag of Switzerland FC Zurich 10
Flag of Switzerland FC Solothurn 6
Flag of Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax 6
Flag of Switzerland FC Luzern 5
Flag of Switzerland FC Aarau 4
Flag of Switzerland Grasshopper Club Zürich 4
Flag of Switzerland SR Delémont 4
Flag of Switzerland Servette FC 3
Flag of Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2
Flag of Germany 1. FC Köln 2
Flag of Germany Borussia Dortmund 2
Flag of Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach 2
Flag of Switzerland FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 2
Flag of Switzerland FC Lausanne-Sport 2
Flag of Switzerland FC Sion 2
Flag of France FC Sochaux-Montbéliard 2
Flag of Switzerland FC Subingen 2
Flag of Netherlands FC Twente 2
Flag of Poland Górnik Zabrze 2
Flag of Italy Lanerossi Vicenza 2
Flag of Switzerland SV Lyss 2
Flag of Germany Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1
Flag of Italy Calcio Como 1
Flag of Scotland Celtic F.C. 1
Flag of Belgium Cercle Brugge K.S.V. 1
Flag of England Crystal Palace 1
Flag of Spain Deportivo de La Coruña 1
Flag of Germany Eintracht Frankfurt 1
Flag of Switzerland FC Langenthal 1
Flag of Switzerland FC Lugano 1
Flag of Czechoslovakia FC Nitra 1
Flag of Austria FC Red Bull Salzburg 1
Flag of Switzerland FC Schaffhausen 1
Flag of Germany FC Schalke 04 1
Flag of Ukraine FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1
Flag of Switzerland FC Thun 1
Flag of Netherlands Feyenoord 1
Flag of Yugoslavia FK Partizan 1
Flag of Germany Fortuna Düsseldorf 1
Flag of Turkey Galatasaray 1
Flag of Germany Hertha BSC 1
Flag of England Ipswich Town 1
Flag of Germany Karlsruher SC 1
Flag of Poland Legia Warsaw 1
Flag of Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. 1
Flag of France Nîmes Olympique 1
Flag of Poland Olimpia Poznań 1
Flag of Greece Panathinaikos F.C. 1
Flag of Serbia Red Star Belgrade 1
Flag of Austria SC Bregenz 1
Flag of Portugal S.L. Benfica 1
Flag of Netherlands Sparta Rotterdam 1
Flag of England Stoke City 1
Flag of Austria SV Austria Salzburg 1
Flag of Turkey Trabzonspor 1
Flag of Germany VfB Stuttgart 1
Flag of England West Ham United 1
Flag of England Wolverhampton Wanderers 1

See also[]

External links[]

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