2010 Sydney Festival of Football
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Australia |
| Dates | 25–31 July |
| Teams | 4 (from 2 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 AEK Athens (1st title)
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 6 |
| Goals scored | 17 (2.83 per match) |
| Attendance | 38,873 (6,479 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Alex Brosque(3 goals) |
The Sydney Festival of Football was an association football friendly tournament competition hosted by A-League club Sydney FC in 2010, held in Sydney and funded by the Events NSW department of the New South Wales Government.
It was intended to be an annual event, with Sydney FC contracted as the Australian side for 3 years, but poor attendance from Sydney FC fans caused the even to make a loss and plans for future tournaments were scrapped. The event has not been held since and no plans have been made to revive the competition.
The first and only tournament to take place so far occurred from 25–31 July 2010, contested by English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers, Rangers from the Scottish Premier League and AEK Athens from the Greek Super League, who eventually won the tournament.
The idea of an international club tournament hosted by Sydney FC was first brought up soon after the 2009-10 A-League season in which Sydney FC took out the Premiership & Championship. Sydney had been keen to participate once more in the Pan-Pacific Championship however due to unknown reasons the 2010 edition was not played. At the time it was revealed that they would be playing Everton, however rumors floated around a pre-season tournament between Sydney FC, Blackburn Rovers, Rangers and Argentinian giants Boca Juniors. However this fell through when it was announced that Boca Juniors would only be playing Melbourne Victory and Wellington Phoenix on their tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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