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TheUEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge[1] (Spanish:UEFA–CONMEBOL Desafío de Clubes;Portuguese:UEFA–CONMEBOL Desafio de Clubes) is afootball match organised byCONMEBOL andUEFA. The match is contested by the winners of the South American and European second-tier competitionsUEFA Europa League andCONMEBOL Sudamericana, respectively. Organised as an annual one-off match, it is a equivalent to the formerSupercopa Euroamericana, which featured the winners of the South American and European second-tier competitions. The competition was launched in 2023 as part of arenewed partnership between CONMEBOL and UEFA.
On 12 February 2020, UEFA and CONMEBOL signed a renewedmemorandum of understanding meant to enhance cooperation between the two organisations. As part of the agreement, a joint UEFA–CONMEBOL committee examined the possibility of staging European–South American intercontinental matches, for both men's and women's football and across various age groups.[2] On 15 December 2021, UEFA and CONMEBOL again signed a renewed memorandum of understanding lasting until 2028, which included specific provisions on opening a joint office inLondon and the potential organisation of various football events.[3]
Following a series of new events between teams from the two confederations, on 7 July 2023, UEFA and CONMEBOL confirmed that theUEFA Europa League andCONMEBOL Sudamericana winners would face each other in an intercontinental match, with the agreement initially for a pilot edition starting on 19 July 2023 at theEstadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán inSeville,Spain.[1] The UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge can be considered a successor to theSupercopa Euroamericana, played in 2015 for the first time and organised by American satellite-television companyDirecTV, as a friendly football tournament, until in 2017, when the match was cancelled, after the crash ofLaMia Flight 2933, carrying the majority of theChapecoense squad on their way to the first leg of the2016 Copa Sudamericana finals.[4]
There are two previous encounters between the champions of the UEFA Europa League and the Copa Sudamericana that took place in 2015 and 2016 under the name ofSupercopa Euroamericana, but both are considered friendlies.[5] The two matches were as follows:
Sevilla (1st title)
2023 UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge
Santa Fe
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Independiente del Valle
