The first edition of the Legends Cup, which took place from January 31 to February 1, 2009, in Moscow in the Ice Palace "Megasport".
Accommodation and customer service – at the Marriott Grand Hotel, which was also the headquarters of the 2008 Champions League final in Moscow.
The tournament was held in two stages: qualifying games in the subgroups and the final part, drawing places from 1 to 6.
Determination of the winner in the games of the final stage with equal score occurred through a series of post-match penalties – five hits from each team, with a draw result – further to the first miss.
Italy: Marco Ballotta, Amedeo Carboni, Lorenzo Amoruso, Demetrio Albertini, Maurizio Ganz, Dario Marcolin, Angelo Carbone, Alessandro Romano, Diego Bonavina France: Guillaume Warmuz, Christian Karembeu, William Ayache, Patrice Loko, Martin Djetou, Jean-Pierre Cyprien, Jean-Marc Chanelet Spain: Toni Jiménez, Jon Andoni Goikoetxea, Guillermo Amor, José Amavisca, Ángel Cuéllar, Cristóbal Parralo, Enrique Romero, Julen Guerrero, Fran, Paco Jémez Portugal: Neno, Paulo Futre, João Pinto, Jorge Costa, Sá Pinto, José Dominguez, Hugo Porfírio, Oceano da Cruz, Hélder, Carlos Xavier, Dimas, Fernando Gomes Netherlands: Ronald de Boer, Pierre van Hooijdonk, Richard Witschge, Danny Muller, Frank Verlaat, Regi Blinker, Peter Hoekstra, Bert Konterman Russia: Aleksandr Filimonov, Viktor Onopko, Yuriy Nikiforov, Dmitri Popov, Dmitri Ananko, Akhrik Tsveiba, Dmitri Alenichev, Valeri Karpin, Igor Simutenkov, Konstantin Yeryomenko, Sergei Yuran, Igor Korneev, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Sergei Kiriakov Famous football players and coaches were invited to the tournament as guests, such as Eusébio, Franco Baresi, Fabio Capello, Oliver Kahn, Michael Rummenigge, Rinat Dasayev and other European football legends.