Antonio Puerta Trophy

Antonio Puerta Trophy
Organising bodySevilla FC
Founded2008 (2008)
RegionSeville, Spain
Number of teams2
Related competitionsJoan Gamper Trophy
Current champions Sevilla (2024)
Most successful club(s) 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

No. 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
Deportivo La Coruña
6
2013 Sevilla
1–1 (4–2 p)
Almería
7
2014 Sevilla
2–0
Córdoba
8
2016 Boca Juniors
4–3
Sevilla
9
2017 Sevilla
2–1
Roma
10
2019 Sevilla
2–0
Schalke 04
11
2022 Sevilla
1–0
Cádiz
12
2023 Sevilla
1–1 (4–1 p)
Independiente del Valle
13
2024 Sevilla
1–0
Al-Ittihad

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.

Sevilla 2–0 Málaga
  • Luís Fabiano 29'
  • Renato 64'
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
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Andrés Ceballos Silva

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.

Sevilla 1–1 Granada
Report
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 Espanyol, which suffered a similar tragedy to Sevilla with the death of a player (Daniel Jarque in 2009).[1]

Sevilla 5–0 Espanyol
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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.

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

2013

Sevilla 1–1 Almería
Report
Penalties
4–2
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Juan Manuel 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.[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 3–4 Boca Juniors
Report

2017

Sevilla 2–1 Roma
Report

2019

Sevilla 2–0 Schalke 04
Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Mario Melero López

2022

Sevilla 1–0 Cádiz
Report
Referee: Mario Melero López

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.

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

2024

Sevilla 1–0 Al-Ittihad
Report
Attendance: 21,475
Referee: Alejandro Quintero González

Titles by team

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

Goalscorers

Goals Player Team Editions
2 José Carlos Sevilla 2009, 2010
2 Rodri Ríos Sevilla 2011
2 Frédéric Kanouté Sevilla 2011
2 Diego Perotti Sevilla 2009, 2013
2 Carlos Tevez 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 Fernández 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
1 Lucas Ocampos Sevilla 2024

References