In December 2017, U12 teams from six English clubs and six other sides, from Belgium, France, Germany and the US, united in Belgian city Ypres to learn about lives lost in the First World War
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentSeattle Sounders, the United States' first representatives in the tournament, joined six English clubs on an education day in Ypres, Belgium, 100 years after the US joined the First World War
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentThe Under-12 players, including this youngster from Seattle, tried on the heavy kit soldiers had to wear
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentThe boys also had a taste of what it took to be a soldier in the British Army at a Recruitment Stand
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentOne player volunteered from Man Utd (pictured), Seattle and the other five English clubs... (Arsenal, Brighton, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, West Ham)
2017 Premier League Truce Tournament... even though this Man Utd youngster and others may have lacked the height to pass the medical for a soldier
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentBoro (pictured) and the other teams visited cemeteries across Ypres, each home to tens of thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in WWI
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentThe youngsters, including this Boro team, visited the Truce memorial, which marks when soldiers laid down their weapons to play football and exchange gifts at Christmas in 1914
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentMan City (pictured) and the other clubs visited trenches and tunnels, getting an insight into the conditions soldiers endured in the same location
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentAll six English clubs, including Man City (pictured), and Seattle observed the Remembrance Service at Menin Gate and laid wreaths in tribute
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentOn Saturday, the competition on the pitch began, with Belgian side Anderlecht winning all their matches and Arsenal finishing second in Group A
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentWest Ham, qualifiers from an educational challenge, won Group B on goal difference after a draw with Man Utd in their final match
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentBrighton finished second in Group B on their Truce Tournament debut, advancing to the semi-finals, where they were due to face Anderlecht
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentArsenal were among the teams Seattle Sounders faced on their debut in the competition
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentAfter Saturday's football all 12 teams went to an evening reception at Cloth Hall
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentThe players mixed with their international counterparts and exchanged gifts, just as enemy soldiers did at Christmas in 1914
2017 Premier League Truce TournamentAdverse weather conditions resulted in the finals day being cancelled after the pitch was quickly deemed unplayable
