The UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge (; ) is a

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match organised by

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and

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. The match is contested by the winners of the South American and European second-tier competitions

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and CONMEBOL Sudamericana, respectively. Organised as an annual one-off match, it is a equivalent to the former Supercopa Euroamericana, which featured the winners of the South American and European second-tier competitions. The competition was launched in 2023 as part of a renewed partnership between CONMEBOL and UEFA.

History

On 12 February 2020, UEFA and CONMEBOL signed a renewed memorandum 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. 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 in

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and the potential organisation of various football events. Following a series of new events between teams from the two confederations, on 7 July 2023, UEFA and CONMEBOL confirmed that the

and CONMEBOL Sudamericana winners would face each other in an intercontinental match, with the agreement initially for a pilot edition starting on 19 July 2023 at the

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. The UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge can be considered a successor to the Supercopa Euroamericana, played in 2015 for the first time and organised by American satellite-television company

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, as a friendly football tournament, until in 2017, when the match was cancelled, after the crash of LaMia Flight 2933, carrying the majority of the Chapecoense squad on their way to the first leg of the 2016 Copa Sudamericana finals.

Supercopa Euroamericana (predecessor)

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 of Supercopa Euroamericana, but both are considered friendlies. The two matches were as follows:

2015

In the 2015 Supercopa Euroamericana: River Plate, the 2014 Copa Sudamericana champions, faced

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, the

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champions.

2016

In the 2016 Supercopa Euroamericana:

, the

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champions, faced Santa Fe, the

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champions.

Results

Results by confederation

References

External links

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