A. Le Coq Arena from above, with the Old Town spires behind it

About us

Bringing young footballers to Tallinn since 2011

The first Tallinn Cup was played in July 2011 by 95 teams from six countries. It has grown, paused for a song festival and a pandemic, come back each time, and is still run by people who answer the phone themselves.

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Where they come from

31 countries, one city

Every club that has ever entered the Tallinn Cup, drawn as the journey it makes. Nine years of registrations — the pin sizes are how many teams a country has sent.

Finland40
Estonia25
Latvia21
Russia17
Lithuania12
Sweden10
France8
Poland7
Italy6
Belarus5
Portugal5
Ukraine5
Germany4
Uzbekistan4
Denmark3
Norway3
Spain3
United Kingdom3
Azerbaijan2
Cyprus2
Georgia2
Hungary2
Ireland2
Kazakhstan2
Romania2
Bosnia and Herzegovina1
China1
Czechia1
Luxembourg1
Mexico1
Morocco1

2011

first edition

tournaments played

1 015

teams hosted

countries in all

History

Every edition since 2011

Eleven tournaments played, three breaks, and 1,015 teams through the city.

2011
The first Tallinn Cup
95 teams · 6 countries
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine and Russia. The largest football tournament held in Estonia at the time.
2012
Girls join the tournament
122 teams · 10 countries
Around 1,300 young players, and two girls' age categories for the first time. Hungary, Poland, Spain, Italy and Belarus came for the first time.
2013
Finals at the national stadium
135 teams · 9 countries
The biggest edition so far, with a team from Mexico, and the finals and awards held at Estonia's national stadium.
2014
No tournament
The song festival filled Tallinn that week — there was nowhere to put a hundred football teams.
2015
HJK, Dinamo and Skonto
70 teams · 6 countries
HJK Helsinki, Dinamo Minsk and Skonto Riga among the clubs.
2016–2017
Two years off
The tournament paused and came back in 2018.
2018
Malmö FF and Zenit
64 teams · 8 countries
Back after two years, with Malmö FF, Zenit St Petersburg and academy sides from Barcelona.
2019
Ten countries
108 teams · 10 countries
Hammarby, KYPS, Banga, CF Cervera, FC Břeclav and Real Sport — from Sweden to Kazakhstan.
2020–2021
No tournament
The pandemic closed the borders.
2022
Back, against the odds
47 teams · 4 countries
The first edition after the pandemic, and more than half the foreign teams made it despite the travel restrictions still in place.
2023
Two girls' categories
84 teams · 6 countries
G13 and G15 both played, and three shuttle lines ran between the hotels and the grounds.
2024
Eleven countries
100 teams · 11 countries
Luxembourg, Portugal and Serbia came for the first time. The opening and the awards were at the national stadium, and the teams stayed on for Levadia against Flora in the Estonian league.
2025
The first year of the cameras
98 teams
The first streams, in some of the age groups, so families and club-mates at home could watch. In the older categories an analytics team followed the games, chose the player of the tournament and wrote up the best players' matches — sent to the players themselves.
2026
Four grounds, ten countries
92 teams · 10 countries
The streaming grew from some of the age groups to every single game. The tournament ran across four football complexes in the city, and clubs came from ten countries.

30 June – 4 July 2027 is the next one — nine categories, 150+ teams expected, and the same people organising it.

Partners

Made possible together

Tallinn Cup works with the city of Tallinn, the Estonian Football Association, local venues, hotels and sports brands. Interested in becoming a partner?