The match — staged every September since 1974 — this time saw bankers putting up stiff resistance and taking the game to the wire.

Two goals for the shipowners by Patrick Barao Martins of MACS and a third by Stephen Jordan of TB Marine Shipmanagement were cancelled out by strikes from Unicredit’s Manuel Lucke, Mathias Schulz of Deutsche Shipping and HSH Nordbank’s Matthias Happich.