The Copa del Sol was an annual exhibition international club football tournament played on the south coast of Spain in January–February, one month before the kickoff of the national leagues, that ran from 2010 to 2014.

[1] All games were broadcast back to home markets of participating clubs allowing fans to observe the current progress of team preparation for the upcoming season, and were screened live on television in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and pan-Africa.

[2] The highest-scoring game in competition history came in its opening year, with Kalmar beating Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Molde 6–4.

[1] Strømsgodset IF of Norway won the last Copa del Sol tournament in 2014, beating Astra Giurgiu in the final, becoming the first (and last) Scandinavian club to win the competition.

A rival event, the La Manga Cup, ran from 1999 until 2016, but also suffered a similar ultimate fate when many top Scandinavian clubs chose not to take part in what turned out to be its final year.