Held in 1908, it predated the more famous Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy by a year.

[1] Organised by Italian La Stampa Sportiva (a weekly sports supplement to newspaper La Stampa),[2] the Torneo Internazionale featured teams from Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany.

Swiss team Servette FC were eventual winners, beating Torino of Italy 3–1.

He told them that he would organise an English team to participate in the next competition, that was held in 1909.

Lipton wanted a team from the Northern League in England to come over to Turin and his decision led to the participation of West Auckland FC from County Durham in the 1909 and 1911 tournaments.