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Antonio Puerta Trophy

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Antonio Puerta Trophy
Organising bodySevilla FC
Founded2008; 16 years ago (2008)
RegionSeville, Spain
Number of teams2
Related competitionsJoan Gamper Trophy
Current championsSpain Sevilla (2024)
Most successful club(s)Spain Sevilla (11 titles)
Television broadcastersCanal Sur, SFC Televisión, Arena Sport, TV3 (in 2011 edition)

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

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No. Year Winners Score Runners-up
1
2008 Spain Sevilla
2–0
Spain Málaga
2
2009 Spain Sevilla
2–1
Spain Xerez
3
2010 Spain Granada
1–1 (4–2 p)
Spain Sevilla
4
2011 Spain Sevilla
5–0
Spain Espanyol
5
2012 Spain Sevilla
2–0
Spain Deportivo La Coruña
6
2013 Spain Sevilla
1–1 (4–2 p)
Spain Almería
7
2014 Spain Sevilla
2–0
Spain Córdoba
8
2016 Argentina Boca Juniors
4–3
Spain Sevilla
9
2017 Spain Sevilla
2–1
Italy Roma
10
2019 Spain Sevilla
2–0
Germany Schalke 04
11
2022 Spain Sevilla
1–0
Spain Cádiz
12
2023 Spain Sevilla
1–1 (4–1 p)
Ecuador Independiente del Valle
13
2024 Spain Sevilla
1–0
Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad

Match details

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2008

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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.

Sevilla Spain2–0Spain Málaga
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Domingo Palomino Núñez

2009

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

Sevilla Spain2–1Spain Xerez
Report
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Andrés Ceballos Silva

2010

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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.

Sevilla Spain1–1Spain Granada
Report
Penalties
2–4
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Israel Mariscal Sánchez

2011

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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).[1]

Sevilla Spain5–0Spain Espanyol
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2012

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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.

Sevilla Spain2–0Spain Deportivo La Coruña
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Pedro Jesús Pérez Montero

2013

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Sevilla Spain1–1Spain Almería
Report
Penalties
4–2
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Juan Manuel López Amaya

2014

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Sevilla Spain2–0Spain Córdoba
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2016

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Sevilla's opponents were Boca Juniors, winners of the 2015 Argentine Primera División and the first non-Spanish team to take part.[2] About 2,000 visiting supporters (most of them expatriate Argentines living in European countries) attended the match.[3] Boca Juniors players wore a patch on their jerseys displaying the "16" worn by Puerta as a tribute to him.[4] Carlos Tevez, with two goals scored and two assists, was the man of match.[5][6]

Sevilla Spain3–4Argentina Boca Juniors
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2017

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Sevilla Spain2–1Italy Roma
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2019

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Sevilla Spain2–0Germany Schalke 04
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Mario Melero López

2022

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Sevilla Spain1–0Spain Cádiz
Report
Referee: Mario Melero López

2023

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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.

Sevilla Spain1–1Ecuador Independiente del Valle
Report
Penalties
4–1
Attendance: 19,407
Referee: Rade Obrenović (Slovenia)

2024

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Sevilla Spain1–0Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad
Report
Attendance: 21,475
Referee: Alejandro Quintero González

Titles by team

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Team Titles Years won
Spain Sevilla
11
2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Spain Granada
1
2010
Argentina Boca Juniors
1
2016

Goalscorers

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Goals Player Team Editions
2 Spain José Carlos Spain Sevilla 2009, 2010
2 Spain Rodri Ríos Spain Sevilla 2011
2 Mali Frédéric Kanouté Spain Sevilla 2011
2 Argentina Diego Perotti Spain Sevilla 2009, 2013
2 Argentina Carlos Tevez Argentina Boca Juniors 2016
1 Brazil Luís Fabiano Spain Sevilla 2008
1 Brazil Renato Spain Sevilla 2008
1 Spain Míchel Spain Xerez 2009
1 Spain Carlos Calvo Spain Granada 2010
1 Spain Manu del Moral Spain Sevilla 2011
1 Spain Álvaro Negredo Spain Sevilla 2012
1 Germany Piotr Trochowski Spain Sevilla 2012
1 Spain Christian Fernández Spain Almería 2013
1 Spain Denis Suárez Spain Sevilla 2014
1 Colombia Carlos Bacca Spain Sevilla 2014
1 Argentina Darío Benedetto Argentina Boca Juniors 2016
1 Argentina Cristian Pavón Argentina Boca Juniors 2016
1 France Steven Nzonzi Spain Sevilla 2016
1 France Timothée Kolodziejczak Spain Sevilla 2016
1 Argentina Luciano Vietto Spain Sevilla 2016
1 Bosnia and Herzegovina Edin Džeko Italy Roma 2017
1 Spain Sergio Escudero Spain Sevilla 2017
1 Spain Nolito Spain Sevilla 2017
1 Spain Roque Mesa Spain Sevilla 2019
1 Morocco Munir Spain Sevilla 2019
1 Denmark Thomas Delaney Spain Sevilla 2022
1 Argentina Lautaro Díaz Ecuador Independiente del Valle 2023
1 Spain Pedro Ortiz Spain Sevilla 2023
1 Argentina Lucas Ocampos Spain Sevilla 2024

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