LONDON: The 2018 International Champions Cup (ICC) will be the sixth edition of a series of pre-season friendly football matches involving 18 of the world’s biggest clubs.
The 2018 edition is scheduled to begin on July 20 and end on August 12.
There will be no Manchester derby in the United States in this year’s competition but there is scheduled to be a second American North West Derby between Manchester United and Liverpool, the first since the finals of the 2014 tournament where Manchester United won in Miami by a score-line of 3–1.
A total of 18 teams will participate in the tournament. The participants were announced in four waves on April 10, 11, 12, and 17.
Of the 22 venues for the International Champions Cup 2018, 14 are in the United States, seven in Europe, and one in Singapore.
According to organisers, in a departure from previous years, each team will play three matches and only one champion will emerge. In previous years teams did not always play the same number of games and a separate champion was crowned in each host country.
The full list of clubs taking part are: AC Milan, Arsenal, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Benfica, PSG, Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla, Juventus, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Roma and Tottenham.
