The 12th edition of the Aegean Cup started today with the first day matches. Turkish U16 National Team beat Denmark after a superb comeback from 0-2 to 4-2 in their first match of Group A. The match was played in Saruhanlı İlçe Stadium, Manisa, Turkey and Muhammed Demirci (Min.49, 67 (P), 79) was a hat-trick hero while, the other goal came from Hasan Karakaş (Min.80+3) for Turkey. Viktor Ahlmann Nielsen (Min.21, 27) hit the target twice for Denmark.

Stadium: Saruhanlı İlçe
Referees: Tolga Kadaz, Cem Yoldaş, İ.Çağlar Uyarcan, Erdinç Kırıcı
Turkey: Murat DEMİR, İbrahim Serdar AYDIN, Emre TAŞDEMİR, Fatih EREN (Min.41 Batıcan ADAY), Onur YILDIRIM, Burhan YILDIZ (Min.41 Tufancan GÖÇE), Taylan ANTALYALI (Min.41 Emre AYDIN), İbrahim DEVRİLEN (Min.41 Semih ERGÜN), Muhammed DEMİRCİ (C), Bahadır ÖZKAN (Min.69 Taha Alper ÇİBER), Onur Ramazan TOPRAK (Min.41 Hasan KARAKAŞ)
Denmark: Alexander NYBO, Svenn CRONE, Oskar TRANBERG, Jacob Dehn ANDERSEN (C), Jakob BLADJERG, Mikkel WOHLGEMUTH , Viktor Ahlmann NIELSEN (Min.71 Mathias LARSEN), Mikkel Luimes NIELSEN (Min.71 Anders THOMSEN), Mikkel JENSEN (Min.67 Samed BARUT), Andrew HJULSAGER,  Pierre Emil HOJBJERG
Goals: Min.21 and Min.27 Viktor Ahlmann NIELSEN (Denmark), Min.49, Min.67 (P) and Min.79 Muhammed DEMİRCİ, Min.83 Hasan KARAKAŞ (Turkey)
Yellow Cards: Min.69 Viktor Ahlmann NIELSEN, Min.75 Oskar TRANBERG (Denmark)

In the day's other match of Group A, Ukraine defeated Greece 4-1. While, first day matches of Group B was concluded as Czech Republic 3-6 Switzerland and France 4-3 Belgium.

The Aegean Cup is helding in Manisa, Turkey between 24-29 January 2011 and eight U16 national teams are participating into the cup, including hosts Turkey.

You can reach the all details of the Aegean Cup 2011 by clicking here.

The Aegean Cup 2011 Group Standings and Schedules:

GROUP A Pld W D L F A +/- Pts 1. UKRAINE 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 3 2. TURKEY 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3 3. DENMARK 1 0 0 1 2 4 -2 0 4. GREECE 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 0

GROUP B Pld W D L F A +/- Pts 1. SWITZERLAND 1 1 0 0 6 3 3 3 2. FRANCE 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 3 3. BELGIUM 1 0 0 1 3 4 -1 0 4. CZECH REPUBLIC 1 0 0 1 3 6 -3 0

Date/Kick-Off Time/Group	Stadium	Team		Team
24.01.2011 13:00  Group A	SARUHANLI İLÇE	TURKEY	4-2	DENMARK
24.01.2011 14:00  Group A	TURGUTLU 7 EYLÜL	GREECE	1-4	UKRAINE
24.01.2011 13:00 Group B	MANİSA 19 MAYIS	CZECH REPUBLIC	3-6	SWITZERLAND
24.01.2011 14:00 Group B	AKHİSAR İLÇE	FRANCE	4-3	BELGIUM
25.01.2011 13:00 Group A	KULA İLÇE	TURKEY	-	GREECE
25.01.2011 14:00 Group A	AKHİSAR İLÇE	DENMARK	-	UKRAINE
25.01.2011 13:00 Group B	SALİHLİ RAMİZ TURHAN	BELGIUM	-	SWITZERLAND
25.01.2011 14:00 Group B	TURGUTLU 7 EYLÜL	FRANCE	-	CZECH REPUBLIC
27.01.2011 14:00 Group A	SALİHLİ RAMİZ TURHAN	TURKEY	-	UKRAINE
27.01.2011 14:00 Group A	TURGUTLU 7 EYLÜL	DENMARK	-	GREECE
27.01.2011 14:00 Group B	SOMA ATATÜRK	FRANCE	-	SWITZERLAND
27.01.2011 14:00 Group B	AKHİSAR İLÇE	BELGIUM	-	CZECH REPUBLIC
29.01.2011 12:00 3rd Place Match	AKHİSAR İLÇE	GROUP A RUNNER-UP	-	GROUP B RUNNER-UP
29.01.2011 14:00 FINAL	MANİSA 19 MAYIS	GROUP A WINNER	-	GROUP B WINNER

NOTE: All times are local.