International Football
Finalíssima 2025: Which teams will play it and when will it be held?
The Copa América and Euro Cup winners will play for the intercontinental title next year. Find out the details.
The Finalissima trophy at Wembley in 2022. (Photo Prensa Libre: AFP)
Both the Euro Cup and the Copa América 2024 will have this Sunday, July 14 their finals to define the continental champions of this 4-year cycle.
In Europe, two teams that were candidates reached the final, Spain and England; the Spanish are looking for their fourth crown in Europe following failing to achieve it in 2016 and 2021, while the The English want to win the European title for the first time following having been beaten at home by the Italians in the last edition.
In the American continent, two teams that have been performing well in recent years reached the final; Argentina who since 2021 have won the Copa América, the Finalissima itself and the World Cup and the Colombians just starting a cycle with coach Nestor Lorenzo, they accumulate 28 games without losing.
The champions of the America Cup and the Eurocup They will have at their disposal the sporting glory that means bringing two of the most precious trophies at national team level to their showcases, but they will also get a ticket to a super cup: the Final.
This meeting that faces the winners of the two most resonant competitions in Europe and South America will have a new edition, by mid-2025. Although the details of the event will have to be coordinated in the coming months by Conmebol and UEFA, the background indicates that the clash of champions will take place within a year and possibly in the old continentalthough it should be noted that this schedule has not yet begun to be discussed among the bodies that regulate football in these regions.
In 1985 had its inaugural game which featured Uruguay and Francethe Europeans consecrated themselves in Paris with a 2-0 victory. At that time it was called the Artemio Franchi Cup. The next edition was in 1993 in Mar del Plata when Argentina defeated Denmark. It was then paralyzed by the organization of the Confederations Cup and until its extinction it was resumed in the new “Finalissima” in 2022 in Wembley.
In 2022, the Argentine National Team, which had won the Copa América the previous year once morest Brazil, earned the right to compete in it and beat Italy. That was the first edition of the modern era of this contest, But it was not the first time it was held, nor the last.
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