After years of successful Soccer Six tournaments in the UK, Cup decided it was time to take Cups celebrity football players oversees with their successful squad, the UK CUP Stars. The UK CUP Stars are an established UK football squad consisting of various celebrities from the music and showbiz industry in Europe together with several ex professionals who all just love to play football. Cup have staged several events with the UK Cup Stars and have christened these events the Game of History, staging the events to celebrate or acknowledge a significant historic date or a new beginning.

The UK CUP Stars played their first match in Florence, Italy where they were invited by the Nazionale Italiana Cantanti to play their Italian team in the Artemio Franchi Stadium. The Stadium was filled with 50,000 people and another 8 million people watched the match live on TV via Rai Uno. After 90 thrilling minutes the score was 6-6 and penalties were taken. The final score was an incredible 10-10 with the UK CUP Stars winning on away goals!

The UK CUP Stars team in Italy consisted of the following stars from the music industry: Rod Stewart, Steve Harris (Iron Maiden), Neutrino (So Solid Crew), Tony Hadley and Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet), Jason Orange (Take That), Paul Young, Mick Hucknall, Rick Wakeman (Yes), Chris Evans (radio DJ) and Ritchie Neville, Sean Conlon and Scott Robinson (Five).

The football professionals were Paul Gascoigne (Newcastle Utd, England), Ian Rush (Liverpool FC, Wales) and Paolo DiCanio (Lazio Roma, Italy) who played their magic skills on the field for the UK CUP Stars. Team managers were Claudio Ranieri (then Chelsea FC manager) and Joe Jordan (Manchester Utd, Scotland).