For the South American competition, see Copa Lipton.
Football tournament
Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy
The trophy awarded to champions
Organising body
Thomas Lipton
Founded
1909
Abolished
1911; 113 years ago (1911)
Region
Europe
Number of teams
4
Related competitions
Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva
Last champions
West Auckland (1911)
Most successful club(s)
West Auckland (2 titles)
The Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy was an association football competition that took place twice, in Turin, Italy, in 1909 and 1911. It is regarded as an early European trophy.[1][2]
It is predated by the Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva,[3] which was hosted in 1908 in Turin, and the Football World Championship, which took place between 1887 and 1902. Also seen as an international competition, but with the noted lack of an England team, Lipton in partnership with the Italian royal family, wanted to go one further and make a more complete tournament. While the actual FIFA World Cup features international teams from around the world, the Lipton Cup, an invitational, only featured a few club sides from Europe.
^WEST AUCKLAND, JUVENTUS AND THE FIRST ‘WORLD CUP’ by Somnath Sengupta on The Hard Tackle, 12 July 2013
^The first European Trophy - 1909 on West Auckland Web
^Andrea Veronese (20 November 2004). "Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy (Torino)". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
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