TERESA HERRERA TROPHY

Teresa Margarita Herrera y Posada was born in A Coruña on 10 November 1712. She was known as “Teresa dos demos” (Teresa of the demons in Galician), as she was considered to be a “meiga” (an evil witch in Galician). She had a very hard life. When her mother was widowed and left with ten children (seven of them would die young), she abandoned her home at an early age, dedicating the rest of her life to help the underprivileged. In 1789, Teresa Herrera donated her property to the congregation of Our Lady of Sorrows to carry out her lifelong dream of founding a charity hospital in the city; its first stone was laid two years later.

Thanks to this commendable mission, and with the help of the Local Charity Board, a football event was created in 1946 that sought to channel social solidarity in a time of hardship. The idea was to provide economic relief to those that needed it the most through a great football tournament; a brilliant idea for its time and a precedent in the economic maximization of this sport. The philanthropic spirit of the new tournament could not have had a better name than the historic benefactress of A Coruña. The first match was held on 31 July and the result was Sevilla 3 - Athletic 2.

But the binomial Teresa Herrera/A Coruña makes no sense unless it is completed with its third part, RC Deportivo. Although at first the tournament rules prohibited the participation of the Club from A Coruña, with the intention of safeguarding the tournament's originality, as time went by, the complete opposite thing happened, to the point that the Branquiazuis have become the main attraction of this competition. Deportivo was the team that had participated the most by the Teresa Herrera's 45th edition. There has always been an important conflict in the city, and mainly at the end of the 80s, where some people thought that it was more important to have top teams participating, and others that believed Deportivo's participation was essential. A debate which, at the end of the day, one can see the high level that is traditionally required for this competition.

However, it is a fact that Teresa Herrera’s organisation has always had Deportivo at hand, including those crucial moments, like in September 1962 when the tournament was still not completely arranged, and they had to urgently resort to the Branquiazul Club to play against Benfica in order not to cancel the tournament. Funnily enough, that improvised edition on September the 9th, became one of the Trophy’s most legendary matches in which Eusebio’s Benfica (who had won the European Champion Clubs' Cup four months earlier), were defeated by Montalvo, Veloso, Ruíz and Jaime Blanco’s goals (4-2).

70 different teams have competed in the Teresa Herrera, thus, making it a genuine international milestone of summer football in which teams proudly come just to participate. Spain, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic, Uruguay, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Mexico are the countries that make up the history of this Impressionist painting of world football that is Teresa Herrera.

The Teresa Herrera is custodian of Galicia's most ancient cultural traditions. A magical pairing between Coruña’s jewellers and Compostela’s silversmiths has crystallised the Trophy’s history. None of the oldest official trophies can boast of so many original features. In fact, even in materialistic times, making this precious trophy every year, and for a friendly, can seem like an extravagance. However not in this case; because the Teresa Herrera Trophy not only forms part of the city’s history, it is also the living essence of it and there lies the key to its longevity.

The 50th edition’s trophy is without a doubt a one-off masterpiece. It took 2,400 hours, 7.4 kilos of gold and 32.7 of silver to make a spectacular hybrid of the two traditions of the Teresa Herrera, the trophies, the most valuable one was kept until the 24th edition, and the towers from that edition onwards. It is said that in a hypothetical auction, the trophy would go for about a million euros.

In any case, this is just talk, because the value of the Teresa Herrera Trophy is incalculable. As universal culture heritage, it speaks for itself and deserves a place of honour among the finest in the Louvre, Hermitage or British Museum. The Teresa Herrera is something Galicia can be proud of, a luxury for A Coruña and, after seventy two editions it has become much more than a work of art.

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Year	Champion	Final res.	Finalist	Third	Fourth
1946	Sevilla	3-2	Athletic Club
1947	Athletic Club	3-2	Vasco da Gama
1948	Barcelona	2-1	Porto
1949	Real Madrid	2-1	Racing de Paris
1950	Lazio	3-1	Atlético de Madrid
1951	Barcelona	4-2	Young Boys
1952	Valencia	2-1	Olympique de Roubaix-Tourcoing
1953	Real Madrid	8-1	Toulouse
1954	Sevilla	3-2	Helsingborgs
1955	Deportivo	4-1	Athletic Club
1956	Atlético de Madrid	4-1	Köln
1957	Vasco da Gama	4-2	Athletic Club
1958	Nacional Montevideo	2-1	Flamengo
1959	Santos	4-1	Botafogo
1960	Sevilla	2-1	Newcastle United
1961	Sporting Lisbon	3-2	Stade Reims
1962	Deportivo	4-2	Benfica
1963	Monaco	3-2	Vasco da Gama
1964	Deportivo	4-0	Sporting Lisbon	Porto	Roma
1965	Atlético de Madrid	2-1	Vitória de Setúbal
1966	Real Madrid	2-0	Deportivo
1967	Racing de Ferrol	3-0	Celta de Vigo	Deportivo	Pontevedra
1968	Vitória de Setúbal	2-1	Rapid Wien
1969	Deportivo	1-0	Nacional Montevideo	Charleroi	Bayern Munich
1970	Ferencvaros	0-0	San Lorenzo de Almagro
1971	Red Star Belgrade	3-1	Deportivo
1972	Barcelona	2-0	ADO Den Haag	Deportivo
1973	Atlético de Madrid	2-1	Spartak Trnava	Ujpest Dozsa	Ajax
1974	Peñarol	3-2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Barcelona	Atlético de Madrid
1975	Peñarol	3-3	Cruzeiro	Atlético de Madrid	Stoke City
1976	Real Madrid	2-0	Cruzeiro	PSV Eindhoven	Peñarol
1977	Fluminense	4-1	Dukla Prague	Real Madrid	Feyenoord
1978	Real Madrid	2-0	Flamengo	Deportivo	Fluminense
1979	Real Madrid	1-0	Sporting de Gijón	Honved	West Bromwich Albion
1980	Real Madrid	3-1	Sporting de Gijón	Porto	Flamengo
1981	Dinamo Kiev	1-0	Atlético de Madrid	Barcelona	Deportivo
1982	Dinamo Kiev	4-1	Barcelona	Bayern Munich	Inter de Porto Alegre
1983	Athletic Club	1-0	Peñarol	Real Madrid	Dinamo Kiev
1984	Roma	2-2	Vasco da Gama	Manchester United	Athletic Club
1985	Atlético de Madrid	1-0	Porto	Fluminense	Real Madrid
1986	Atlético de Madrid	1-0	Santos	Real Madrid	Sao Paulo
1987	Benfica	1-1	Deportivo	Sporting de Gijón	Everton
1988	PSV Eindhoven	3-1	Atlético de Madrid	Liverpool	Real Sociedad
1989	Bayern Munich	4-1	Steaua Bucharest	Real Madrid	PSV Eindhoven
1990	Barcelona	2-0	Benfica	Bayern Munich	Deportivo
1991	Porto	1-0	Deportivo	Ajax	Real Madrid
1992	Sao Paulo	4-1	Barcelona	Peñarol	Deportivo
1993	Barcelona	1-0	Sao Paulo	Deportivo	Lazio
1994	Real Madrid	1-0	Deportivo	Sampdoria	Porto
1995	Deportivo	2-0	Real Madrid	Flamengo	Benfica
1996	Botafogo	4-4	Juventus	Deportivo	Ajax
1997	Deportivo	2-2	PSV Eindhoven	Atlético de Madrid	Vasco da Gama
1998	Deportivo	2-0	Lazio	Real Madrid	Atlético de Madrid
1999	Celta de Vigo	1-0	Boca Juniors	Deportivo	Corinthians
2000	Deportivo	2-2	Lazio
2001	Deportivo	2-1	Real Madrid	Peñarol	Cruz Azul
2002	Deportivo	1-0	Cruz Azul	Atlético de Madrid	Nacional Montevideo
2003	Deportivo	-	América Mexico	Nacional Montevideo
2004	Deportivo	3-1	Atlético de Madrid	Zaragoza	Sporting Lisbon
2005	Deportivo	-	Nacional Montevideo	Peñarol
2006	Deportivo	3-1	Milan	Atlético de Madrid	Nacional Montevideo
2007	Deportivo	2-1	Real Madrid	Belenenses	Atalanta
2008	Deportivo	2-1	Atlético de Madrid	Cruz Azul	Sporting de Gijón
2009	Atlético de Madrid	1-1	Deportivo
2010	Newcastle United	0-0	Deportivo
2011	Sevilla	1-1	Deportivo
2012	Deportivo	2-2	Atlético de Madrid
2013	Real Madrid	4-0	Deportivo
2014	Deportivo	1-0	Sporting de Gijón	Sporting Lisbon	Nacional Montevideo
2015	Deportivo	1-0	Sporting Braga
2016	Deportivo	2-0	Villarreal
2017	Deportivo	2-0	West Bromwich Albion