This occasion gathered 6 local and international first-league teams – Kecskeméti TE, Hungary; NK Domžale and FC Koper, Slovenia; Žalgiris, Lithuania, and the local NK Istra Pula 1961 and NK Pomorac-Kostrena. The tournament hosts were the city of Novigrad and the FC Novigrad, including the collaboration with the company Laguna Novigrad d.d., co-hosted by the city of Umag, company Istraturist Umag d.d., FC Umag, and Tourist Boards of Umag, Novigrad, Buje and Brtonigla.

For many years now, Laguna Novigrad, as one of the key drivers of tourist development in Novigrad, has been investing in sports and recreation development as an important component of tourist offer. Preseason opens with Istria Winter Cup and other organized visits by sports groups. Come warmer days, cyclists start arriving, followed by tennis players, all of which could not be possible without Laguna’s and city’s sports fields.