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The Artemio Franchi Trophy is an official competition held twice (1985 and 1993) between the champions of the European Football Championship and the Copa América. It was the national team equivalent to the Intercontinental Cup featuring the top European and South American clubs, and can be considered a precursor of the King Fahd Cup, played in 1992 for the first time and renamed the FIFA Confederations Cup after FIFA took over its organization for the third edition in 1997.
The trophy was named after the late Artemio Franchi, UEFA President from 1972 to 1983, when he died in a road accident.
2018
The third edition of the Artemio Franchi Trophy will be played in March 2018 in Milan, Italy and will involve four teams, adding the runners-up of both 2015 Copa América and UEFA Euro 2016 tournaments.
However, this edition could be suspended due to misknowledge from both confederations. CONMEBOL Director of Competitions Hugo Figueredo claims that "personally, I don't know about that posibility", while the UEFA still declares the trophy as "defunct". Instead, both confederations are planning a "Match of Champions" exhibition match between Chile and Portugal, as stated by current CONMEBOL President Alejandro Dominguez.