The Alkass International Cup was an annual under-17
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
tournament hosted in
Doha
Doha ( ) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor (city), Al Khor and Lusail, it is home to most of the country's population. It ...
, Qatar from 2012 to 2020. It brought together some of the best under-17 teams of clubs around the world.
Format

Played across 11 days typically in January and February, the tournament had 12 participants split into 4 groups of 3 teams. The first 2 teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals, while the 3rd place teams participated in the 9th-12th place play-offs. After the quarter-finals, 4 teams advanced to the semi-finals, while the 4 others played in the 5th-8th place play-offs. Finally, after the semi-finals, 2 teams advanced to the final match, while the other 2 played in the 3rd place playoff. The winner of the final was crowned champion.
Broadcasters
The Alkass International Cup was broadcast by the organizing body of the cup,
Alkass Sports. In Europe, it was also broadcast by
Eurosport 2
Eurosport 2 is a sports television channel and a sister channel to Eurosport 1. Both are part of the Eurosport network which is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, EMEA version of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the chan ...
.
Performances by teams
References
External links
Website
{{Football in Qatar
Sports competitions in Doha
International club association football competitions hosted by Qatar
2012 establishments in Qatar
Recurring sporting events established in 2012
Youth football competitions
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2020
2020 disestablishments in Qatar