The Tulsa Sports Commission announced a new partnership with AC Milan, the World's Most Successful Club, in the summer of 2011 that created a new and exciting opportunity for premier soccer teams from around to globe to gather in America's Heartland - Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

With this partnership came the Heartland Cup, a U11-U15 competition organized as a qualifier for the Continental Cup and the Copa America, featuring teams from AC Milan's exclusive youth soccer club and domestic teams asked to compete by invitation only.