Mark Snyder, and Mike Brudenell

Detroit Free Press

Real Madrid and Chelsea FC will play an International Champions Cup match at 3 p.m. July 30 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, officials confirmed today. Word first leaked out Tuesday.

“We are ecstatic to be coming back to the University of Michigan,” Charlie Stillitano, chairman of Relevent Sports, said in a released statement. “In 2014, Real Madrid and Manchester United set the record for largest attended soccer game, and we expect another great crowd, as Real Madrid and Chelsea are two of the biggest and best teams in the world. This will be a marquee match of the tournament, and we are excited to bring the ICC back to Michigan.”

Presale tickets will be available to Michigan athletic donors and a few others at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Public tickets will go on sale at 8:30 a.m. April 5 through the Michigan Athletic Ticket Office and online at mgoblue.com/tickets.

Additional information and access to presale information is available at internationalchampionscup.com.

The Ann Arbor match is the seventh of 15 between prominent soccer teams this summer in Europe and the United States. The others in the U.S. will be in Eugene, Ore.; Columbus, Ohio; Chicago; Pasadena, Calif.; Charlotte, N.C.; Santa Clara, Calif.; East Rutherford, N.J. and Minneapolis.

The International Champions Cup is a series of friendlies between top-tier teams, begun in 2013 in the U.S. It grew in 2015 to include matches in Australia and China. Despite being exhibitions, a winner is crowned from the eight-team group. The format has changed each year.

One of the founding partners was prominent U-M alum and donor Stephen Ross. U-M set the event's spectator record at the Aug. 2, 2014 game between Manchester United and Real Madrid, with 109,318 fans.

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