United Tournament

The first edition of the tournament, 2013 United Tournament, took place between 27 June – 7 July 2013 and included Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv from Ukraine; Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Spartak Moscow from Russia. The format of the tournament was two-legged ties for all pairs of clubs from different countries. The host cities were Donetsk, Kyiv and Moscow. Dynamo Kyiv won the 2013 United Tournament, after beating Spartak Moscow in the last game.[19][20]

The second edition, 2014 United Supercup, took place in Israel between 30 January – 5 February 2014. Four teams participated in it: Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv from Ukraine; Zenit St. Petersburg and CSKA Moscow from Russia.[1][2] The clubs were picked by the principle of two top placed clubs in the local championships.[21] G-Drive became the edition official sponsor.[22] Before the tournament a press conference was held in Tel Aviv. Among the participants were Valery Gazzaev, the head of the committee in charge of the united championship, Mircea Lucescu, the manager of Shakhtar Donetsk, Leonid Slutskiy, the manager of PFC CSKA Moscow, Myron Markevych, the manager of Metallist Kharkiv, and Luciano Spalletti, the manager of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.[23] The tournament format became round-robin (instead of two-legged ties for all pairs of clubs from different countries, as played previously).[6] The first two games of the tournament were watched by 3 million Russians, which is 1 million more than the previous edition average.[24] The 2014 tournament was won by Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine, winning all 3 games.[25][26][27][28] Dario Srna was named the best player of the tournament.[29]