Southwest Cup
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The Southwest Cup is an open soccer tournament to Native American
tribal teams in the Southwest United States. This tournament is biennial and started in 1957
. The 26th annual Southwest Cup, the 50th anniversary event, was held in 2007.
In 2010, the 27th Southwest Cup was hosted in Farmington, New Mexico
.
The next Southwest Cup host site will be held in Palm Springs, California
.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
tribal teams in the Southwest United States. This tournament is biennial and started in 1957
1957 in football (soccer)
The following are the football events of the year 1957 throughout the world.-Events:* February 8 – The Confederation of African Football is founded at a meeting in Khartoum, Sudan....
. The 26th annual Southwest Cup, the 50th anniversary event, was held in 2007.
In 2010, the 27th Southwest Cup was hosted in Farmington, New Mexico
Farmington, New Mexico
Farmington is a city in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 U.S. Census the city had a total population of 45,877 people. Farmington makes up one of the four Metropolitan Statistical Areas in New Mexico. The U.S...
.
The next Southwest Cup host site will be held in Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, within the Coachella Valley. It is located approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego...
.
Past champions
- 1957: Navajo NationNavajo NationThe Navajo Nation is a semi-autonomous Native American-governed territory covering , occupying all of northeastern Arizona, the southeastern portion of Utah, and northwestern New Mexico...
(AZArizonaArizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
) - 1959: Navajo Nation (AZ)
- 1961: Navajo Nation (AZ)
- 1963: MescaleroMescaleroMescalero is an Apache tribe of Southern Athabaskan Native Americans. The tribe is federally recognized as the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southcentral New Mexico...
(NMNew MexicoNew Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
) - 1965: Taos PuebloTaos PuebloTaos Pueblo is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people. It is approximately 1000 years old and lies about north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico, USA...
(NM) - 1967: Fort MojaveFort MojaveFort Mohave was originally named Camp Colorado when it was established on April 19, 1859 by Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman during the Mohave War...
(AZ) - 1969: Walker River (NVNevadaNevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
) - 1971: Colorado RiverColorado RiverThe Colorado River , is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The watershed of the Colorado River covers in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states...
(AZ) - 1973: Navajo Nation (AZ)
- 1975: Fort Mojave (AZ)
- 1977: MoapaMoapa Band of Paiute IndiansThe Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation are a federally recognized tribe of Paiutes, who live in southern Nevada on the Moapa River Indian Reservation. They were in the past called the Moapats and the Nuwuvi....
(NV) - 1979: CahuillaCahuillaThe Cahuilla, Iviatim in their own language, are Indians with a common culture whose ancestors inhabited inland areas of southern California 2,000 years ago. Their original territory included an area of about . The traditional Cahuilla territory was near the geographic center of Southern California...
(CACaliforniaCalifornia is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
) - 1981: San CarlosRumsenRumsen is one of eight language divisions of the Ohlone Native American people of Northern California...
(CA) - 1983: Laguna PuebloLaguna PuebloLaguna is a Native American tribe of the Pueblo people in west-central New Mexico, USA. The name, Laguna, is Spanish and derives from the lake located on their reservation. The real Keresan name of the tribe is Kawaik. The population of the tribe exceeds 7,000 , making it the largest Keresan...
(NM) - 1985: Cibola County (NM)
- 1987: Southern Ute (UTUtahUtah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
) - 1989: Navajo Nation (AZ)
- 1991: Pyramid LakePyramid Lake Indian ReservationThe Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation is a United States reservation in northwestern Nevada ~approximately northeast of Reno, in Washoe, Storey, and Lyon Counties. It lies almost entirely in Washoe County , with but tiny amounts of land in the other two counties . It is governed by the Pyramid Lake...
(NV) - 1993: Pyramid Lake (NV)
- 1995: HualapaiHualapaiThe Hualapai or Walapai are a tribe of Native Americans who live in the mountains of northwestern Arizona, United States. The name is derived from "hwa:l," the Hualapai word for ponderosa pine, "Hualapai" meaning "people of the ponderosa pine"...
(IAZ) - 1997: HopiHopiThe Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...
(AZ) - 1999: La Paz County (AZ)
- 2001: Hopi (AZ)
- 2003: Navajo Nation (AZ)
- 2005: San CarlosRumsenRumsen is one of eight language divisions of the Ohlone Native American people of Northern California...
(CA) - 20072007 Southwest CupThe 2007 Southwest Cup was held in the Navajo Nation of the United States. It was the 26th time the Southwest Cup has been contested since its establishment.The Cup is a soccer tournament between tribes of Native Americans, the 2007 champions were the Zuni....
: Zuni (AZ) - 2010 N/A
- 2012 proposed - to be held in Palm Springs, CA