Endemol Sport teamed up with The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to create the Dublin Super Cup, a pre-season competition that over the bank holiday weekend, brought some of the biggest names in world football to Ireland’s Aviva stadium.

This included the star-studded first squads of Scottish giants Celtic FC and Premier League title-chasers Manchester City, European and World Club champions Inter Milan as well as a Airtricity XI, a team selected from the best players from Ireland’s top domestic League.

On Saturday, UCD’s home ground ‘The Bowl’ was selected to host Manchester City for their tournaments training session. This exciting session was attended by a small group of young fans eager to see their heroes close up.

The Bowl, a previous winner of ‘Stadium of the Year’, was in pristine condition and the fans and media alike were not disappointed with the session.

Following the training session the players and management of ‘City, were very welcoming and signed autographs and posed for pictures with a number of fans before leaving 

On Sunday Manchester City played Inter Milan, the most anticipated match of the weekend, and in a three-goal thriller, Manchester City claimed the Super Cup.