Antonio Puerta Trophy

Antonio Puerta Trophy
Organising body Sevilla FC
Founded 2008
Region Seville, Spain
Number of teams 2
Related competitions Joan Gamper Trophy
Current champions Sevilla (2023)
Most successful club(s) Sevilla (10 titles)
Television broadcasters Canal 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

# Year Winners Score Runners-up
1
2008 Sevilla
2–0
Málaga
2
2009 Sevilla
2–1
Xerez
3
2010 Granada
1–1 (4–2 p)
Sevilla
4
2011 Sevilla
5–0
Espanyol
5
2012 Sevilla
2–0
La Coruña
6
2013 Sevilla
1–1 (4–2 p)
Almería
7
2014 Sevilla
2–0
Córdoba
2015
(not held)
8
2016 Boca Juniors
4–3
Sevilla
9
2017 Sevilla
2–1
Roma
2018
(not held)
10
2019 Sevilla
2–0
Schalke 04
2020–21
(not held)
11
2022 Sevilla
1–0
Cádiz
12
2023 Sevilla
1–1 (4–1 p)
Independiente del Valle

Match details

2008

Played on 23 August 2008 against Málaga CF, the 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 2–0 Málaga
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Domingo Palomino Núñez

2009

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

Sevilla 2–1 Xerez
Report Míchel 87'
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Andrés Ceballos Silva

2010

It was played on November, during a Liga BBVA break because of UEFA Champions League Group Stage (matchday 5). The rival this time was Granada, team promoted that season to Liga Adelante. It has been the first time since this tournament exists that Sevilla lost the final match.

Sevilla 1–1 Granada
José Carlos 58' Report Calvo 9'
Penalties
2–4
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Israel Mariscal Sánchez

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 RCD Espanyol, Sevilla twinned team after suffering a similar tragedy as happened to the organizing club in 2007 (Daniel Jarque's death).

Sevilla 5–0 Espanyol
Report
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Paradas Romero

2012

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

Sevilla 2–0 Deportivo La Coruña
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Pérez Montero

2013

Sevilla 1–1 Almería
Perotti 81' (pen.) Report Christian 90+2'
Penalties
4–2
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: López Amaya

2014

Sevilla 2–0 Córdoba
Report

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 Tévez, with two goals scored and two assists, was the man of match.

Sevilla 3–4 Boca Juniors
Report

2017

Sevilla 2–1 Roma
Džeko 90+1'
Attendance: 29,298

2019

Sevilla 2–0 Schalke 04
Mesa 35'
Munir 72' (pen.)
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Mario Melero López

2022

Sevilla 1–0 Cádiz
Delaney 68' Report
Referee: Mario Melero López

2023

Details : 2023 UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge

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

Titles by team

Team Titles Years won
Sevilla
10
2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023
Granada
1
2010
Boca Juniors
1
2016

Goalscorers

Goals Player Team Edition in
which scored
2 José Carlos Sevilla 2009, 2010
2 Rodri Ríos Sevilla 2011
2 Frédéric Kanouté Sevilla 2011
2 Diego Perotti Sevilla 2009, 2013
2 Carlos Tévez Boca Juniors 2016
1 Luís Fabiano Sevilla 2008
1 Renato Sevilla 2008
1 Míchel Xerez 2009
1 Carlos Calvo Granada 2010
1 Manu del Moral Sevilla 2011
1 Álvaro Negredo Sevilla 2012
1 Piotr Trochowski Sevilla 2012
1 Christian Almería 2013
1 Denis Suárez Sevilla 2014
1 Carlos Bacca Sevilla 2014
1 Darío Benedetto Boca Juniors 2016
1 Cristian Pavón Boca Juniors 2016
1 Steven Nzonzi Sevilla 2016
1 Timothée Kolodziejczak Sevilla 2016
1 Luciano Vietto Sevilla 2016
1 Edin Džeko Roma 2017
1 Sergio Escudero Sevilla 2017
1 Nolito Sevilla 2017
1 Roque Mesa Sevilla 2019
1 Munir Sevilla 2019
1 Thomas Delaney Sevilla 2022
1 Lautaro Díaz Independiente del Valle 2023
1 Pedro Ortiz Sevilla 2023