2007 North American SuperLiga

2007 SuperLiga

2007 North American SuperLiga
Tournament details
Host country	USA
Dates	July 24 – August 29
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Pachuca (1st title)
Runners-up	Los Angeles Galaxy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	42 (2.8 per match)
Attendance	234,751 (15,650 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Landon Donovan (4 Goals)

The 2007 SuperLiga, the inaugural edition of the SuperLiga competition, was held from July 24 to August 29, 2007. The eight clubs participating in the 2007 tournament were chosen by invitation.

In 2008, the Major League Soccer attendees will be the teams that finish the season 1st through 4th and the Primera División Mexicana has determined that the last four semi-annual champions will compete.

All games of the tournament were carried live on Fox Sports World in Canada (English), Telefutura in the United States (Spanish) and Televisa and TV Azteca in Mexico (both Spanish).

Venues

City	Stadium Name	Capacity
Bridgeview, IL (Chicago area)	Toyota Park	20,000
Carson, CA (Los Angeles area)	The Home Depot Center	27,000
Commerce City, CO (Denver area)	Dick's Sporting Goods Park	18,500
Frisco, TX (Dallas area)	Pizza Hut Park	21,193
Houston, TX	Robertson Stadium	32,000
Los Angeles, CA	Los Angeles Coliseum	92,500
Washington, D.C.	RFK Stadium	46,686

Qualification

The eight teams in the inaugural 2007 edition were selected on an invitation-only basis.^[1] The 2007 SuperLiga invitees are:

From MLS D.C. United FC Dallas Houston Dynamo Los Angeles Galaxy

FC Dallas against the Los Angeles Galaxy in the 2007 SuperLiga on July 31, 2007. From PDFM CA Morelia CF Pachuca Club América CD Guadalajara

Group stage

There will be two groups of four teams. Two teams from each league will be divided into the groups. (All times are EDT)

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Los Angeles Galaxy	6	3	2	0	1	9	8	+1
CF Pachuca	4	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
CD Guadalajara	4	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
FC Dallas	2	3	0	2	1	7	8	-1

Fixtures

July 24, 2007 21:00 EDT	FC Dallas	1 – 1	CD Guadalajara	Pizza Hut Park, Frisco Attendance: 12,641 Referee: Walter Quesada Cordero
	Alvarez  56' Moor  72'	Report	Olvera  67'

July 24, 2007 23:00 EDT	Los Angeles Galaxy	2 – 1	CF Pachuca	The Home Depot Center, Carson Attendance: 19,317 Referee: Carlos Batres
	Gordon  50' Donovan  81'	Report	Márquez Lugo  78'

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July 28, 2007 20:00 EDT	FC Dallas	1 – 1	CF Pachuca	Pizza Hut Park, Frisco Attendance: 7,953 Referee: Samir Osman
	Ruíz  75'	Report	Giménez  87' (pen.)

July 28, 2007 22:00 EDT	Los Angeles Galaxy	1 – 2	CD Guadalajara	Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 37,337 Referee: Courtney Campbell
	Donovan  88'	Report	Rodríguez  59' Bravo  82'

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July 31, 2007 20:00 EDT	FC Dallas	5 – 6	Los Angeles Galaxy	Pizza Hut Park, Frisco Attendance: 21,576 Referee: Kevin Stott
	Alvarez  43' Toja  78' Alvarez  82' Ruíz  90+1' Thompson  90+6'	Report	Gordon  3' Klein  12' Gordon  15' Harmse  18' Donovan  84' Pavón  90+5'

July 31, 2007 22:00 EDT	CD Guadalajara	0 – 1	CF Pachuca	Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City Attendance: 14,069 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodriguez
		Report	Márquez Lugo  62'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Houston Dynamo	7	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2
D.C. United	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Club América	3	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1
Monarcas Morelia	2	3	0	2	1	4	5	-1

Fixtures

July 25, 2007 20:00 EDT	D.C. United	1 – 1	Monarcas Morelia	RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. Attendance: 13,335 Referee: Courtney Campbell
	Gomez  7'	Report	Landín  58' Martínez  79'

July 25, 2007 22:00 EDT	Houston Dynamo	1 – 0	Club América	Robertson Stadium, Houston Attendance: 18,112 Referee: Steven Taylor
	Jaqua  41'	Report

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July 29, 2007 20:00 EDT	D.C. United	1– 0	Club América	RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. Attendance: 18,604 Referee: Carlos Batres
	Dyachenko  12'	Report	Rojas  49'

July 29, 2007 22:00 EDT	Houston Dynamo	1– 1	Monarcas Morelia	Robertson Stadium, Houston Attendance: 11,236 Referee: Walter Quesada
	Ngwenya  1'	Report	Batista  74'

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August 1, 2007 20:00 EDT	Houston Dynamo	1– 0	D.C. United	Robertson Stadium, Houston Attendance: 11,013 Referee: Baldomero Toledo
	Ching  50'	Report

August 1, 2007 22:00 EDT	Club América	3– 2	Monarcas Morelia	Toyota Park, Bridgeview Attendance: 10,623 Referee: Hugo Leon Guajardo
	Mosqueda  17' Cabañas  56' (pen.) Insúa  85'	Report	Romero  54' Choy  67' Landín  73'

Semifinals

August 14, 2007 22:00 EDT 02:00 UTC	Houston Dynamo	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	CF Pachuca	Robertson Stadium, Houston Attendance: 21,712 Referee: Ricardo Salazar
	DeRosario  4' Ianni  13' Robinson  83' Ashe  102'	Report	Cacho  28' Chitiva  62' Chitiva  85'
		Penalties
	Barrett Wondolowski Mulrooney Ching Ngwenya	3 – 4	Salazar Caballero Rey Álvarez Lugo

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August 15, 2007 22:00 EDT	Los Angeles Galaxy	2 – 0	D.C. United	The Home Depot Center, Carson Attendance: 17,223 Referee: Alex Prus
	Beckham  27' Donovan  47'	Report

Final

August 29, 2007 20:00 PDT 03:00 UTC	Los Angeles Galaxy	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	CF Pachuca	The Home Depot Center, Carson Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Carlos Batres
	Klein  90+3'	Report	Vagenas  29' (og)
		Penalties
	Vagenas Jones Klein Buddle Donovan Xavier	3 – 4	Lugo Rey Caballero Manzur Cabrera Rodríguez

Result

2007 North American SuperLiga Winners Pachuca 1st Title

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 August - Houston, TX
	Houston Dynamo	2 (3)
	Pachuca (AET, PSO)	2 (4)
					29 August - Carson, CA
					Pachuca	1 (4)
					Los Angeles Galaxy	1 (3)
	15 August - Carson, CA
	Los Angeles Galaxy	2
	D.C. United	0

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 2007 North American Superliga (Group Stage and Knockout Stage) are as follows:

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Landon Donovan	Los Angeles Galaxy	4
2	Arturo Alvarez	FC Dallas	3
	Alan Gordon	Los Angeles Galaxy
4	Chris Klein	Los Angeles Galaxy	2
	Rafael Márquez Lugo	Pachuca
	Carlos Ruiz	FC Dallas
7	Marcio Antonio Batista	Morelia	1
	David Beckham	Los Angeles Galaxy
	Omar Bravo	Guadalajara
	Salvador Cabañas	América
	Juan Carlos Cacho	Pachuca
	Brian Ching	Houston Dynamo
	Andrés Chitiva	Pachuca
	Gonzalo Choy	Morelia
	Dwayne De Rosario	Houston Dynamo
	Rod Dyachenko	D.C. United
	Christian Giménez	Pachuca
	Christian Gómez	D.C. United
	Kevin Harmse	Los Angeles Galaxy
	Federico Insúa	América
	Nate Jaqua	Houston Dynamo
	Luis Ángel Landín	Morelia
	Diego Martínez	Morelia
	Juan Carlos Mosqueda	América
	Joseph Ngwenya	Houston Dynamo
	José Antonio Olvera	Guadalajara
	Carlos Pavón	Los Angeles Galaxy
	Eddie Robinson	Houston Dynamo
	Francisco Javier Rodríguez	Guadalajara
	Abe Thompson	FC Dallas
	Juan Toja	FC Dallas

Sponsors

The following is a list of the official sponsors of the 2007 Superliga.

• Adidas
• AT&T
• Budweiser
• Burger King
• Jose Cuervo
• Lowe's
• Sedalmex
• Sierra Mist
• State Farm Insurance

See also

SuperLiga 2008

References

1. ^ www.superliga.com

External links

• Official Website