Antonio Puerta Trophy

The Antonio Puerta Trophy is an annual summer tournament hosted by Sevilla FC since 2008. The tournament is dedicated to Antonio Puerta, who died on 28 August 2007 (at the age of 22) after suffering a heart injury during the inaugural match of the 2007–08 La Liga season against Getafe.

List of champions

Match details

2008

The match was played on 23 August 2008 against Málaga, a team promoted to La Liga that year. It served to commemorate Antonio Puerta and all the victims of the Spanair Flight 5022, the aviation accident which occurred three days before.

2009

Played on 21 August 2009 against Xerez, team also promoted to Liga BBVA that year as occurred in 2008 with Málaga.

2010

The match was played in November, during a Liga BBVA break because during the UEFA Champions League group stage (matchday 5). The rival this time was Granada, the team promoted that season to Liga Adelante. It was the first time since the tournament's inception that Sevilla lost the final match.

2011

The fourth edition of the tournament was celebrated in summer again, during the pre-season. The guest for the first time wasn't Andalusian; it was Espanyol, which suffered a similar tragedy to Sevilla with the death of a player (Daniel Jarque in 2009).

2012

The match was played on 8 August due to the early start of the 2012–13 La Liga season, against Deportivo La Coruña, a traditional Sevilla "friend" team.

2013

2014

2016

Sevilla's opponents were Boca Juniors, winners of the 2015 Argentine Primera División and the first non-Spanish team to take part. About 2,000 visiting supporters (most of them expatriate Argentines living in European countries) attended the match. Boca Juniors players wore a patch on their jerseys displaying the "16" worn by Puerta as a tribute to him. Carlos Tevez, with two goals scored and two assists, was the man of match.

2017

2019

2022

2023

The 2023 edition of the Antonio Puerta Trophy also formed the inaugural edition of the UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge, the one-off match between the champions of the UEFA Europa League and Copa Sudamericana.