A super cup is a competition, in association football , basketball , handball , volleyball and rugby union which often forms the ' curtain raiser ' to a season, and typically involves only two teams who have qualified through success in other competitions during the previous season.
23-572: The Supercoppa Italiana (English: Italian Super Cup ) is an annual super cup tournament in Italian football . Founded in 1988 as a two-team competition, it has featured four teams from the 2023 edition onwards: the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia . Up until 2023, it was a match contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season. If
46-504: A new format for the Supercoppa Italiana, starting with the 2023 edition. It is played as a four-team tournament, contested by the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia. Super cup It is typically contested on a national level by two competition winners of the previous season: the national knock-out cup winner and the highest level league champion. There are also continental super cups, like
69-467: Is an intercontinental football match organised by CONMEBOL and UEFA and contested by the winners of the Copa América and UEFA European Championship . Organised as an occasional one-off match, it is a national team equivalent to the defunct Intercontinental Cup between the club champions of Europe and South America. The competition was held twice, in 1985 and 1993 , before being discontinued. It
92-604: The CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions in 2020, previously held as the European/South American Nations Cup in 1985 and 1993 , to be contested between the champions of both confederations. The rebooted cup, now branded as the Finalissima, held its first edition in 2022 , with quadrennial editions to follow. The two confederations launched a Women's Finalissima in 2023 , involving the most recent winners of
115-690: The Copa América Femenina and Women's Euro . It is also planned to be a quadrennial event. Other tournaments like this have been held, including the Intercontinental Champions' Supercup (contested by the past winners of the Intercontinental Cup ), Supercopa Euroamericana (pitting the Copa Sudamericana and UEFA Europa League winners), Suruga Bank Championship (pitting the Copa Sudamericana and J.League Cup winners),
138-580: The Copa de Oro (pitting all the most recent CONMEBOL competition winners), and the Copa Iberoamericana (pitting the Copa de Oro and Copa del Rey winners). [REDACTED] & [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions The Finalissima , formerly known as European/South American Nations Cup and also called Artemio Franchi Cup ,
161-640: The European Football Championship and the Copa América , which rebranded once again in 2022 after the 29-year hiatus. Sometimes, these are two-legged ties , with a match played at each side's stadium, but increasingly they are one-off fixtures at a neutral venue, such as a national stadium . Some Super Cups have even been staged in venues outside their home country, such as the Italian, French, Spanish, Turkish, Mexican, and Egyptian games and increasingly function as publicity events for that league in
184-578: The UEFA European Championship and Copa América winners would face each other in an intercontinental match, with the agreement initially covering three editions starting in 2022. On 15 December 2021, UEFA and CONMEBOL again signed a renewed memorandum of understanding lasting until 2028, which included specific provisions on opening a joint office in London and the potential organisation of various football events. On 22 March 2022, UEFA announced that
207-752: The UEFA Super Cup in football, which puts together winners of the top and second-tier UEFA competitions and the Recopa Sudamericana between CONMEBOL Libertadores and the Sudamericana winners, and cross-border super cups between champions of neighbouring leagues, such as the Campeones Cup between the winners of the highest level leagues in the United States and Mexico, and the Champions Cup for
230-522: The "CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions" would be the new name of the trophy for the Artemio Franchi Cup. The 2022 Finalissima took place between the winners of UEFA Euro 2020 (held in 2021), Italy , and the winners of the 2021 Copa América , Argentina , at Wembley Stadium in London, England. Argentina won the match 3–0 for their second title. A women's equivalent, the Women's Finalissima between
253-458: The champions of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The now-defunct Intercontinental Cup was a super cup played between the continental champions of Europe and South America, with winners retroactively recognised by world governing body FIFA as World Champions prior to the creation of the official FIFA Club World Cup and the CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions between the winners of
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#1733115117440276-627: The continental championships and FIFA World Cup . After the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup , FIFA announced in March 2019 that the tournament would be abolished. On 12 February 2020, UEFA and CONMEBOL signed a renewed memorandum of understanding meant to enhance cooperation between the two organisations. As part of the agreement, a joint UEFA–CONMEBOL committee examined the possibility of staging European–South American intercontinental matches, for both men's and women's football and across various age groups. On 28 September 2021, UEFA and CONMEBOL confirmed that
299-572: The continental football confederations have jointly held a competition pitting their champions against each other: All of these competitions are now defunct and have been succeeded by the FIFA Club World Cup , which features the champions of all of the confederations, plus the champion of the host country. In 2017, FIFA retroactively recognised the winners of the European/South American Cup as world champions. A similar tournament
322-529: The following years: 1995 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 ( Juventus ), 2000 ( Lazio ), 2006 and 2010 ( Inter Milan ). On 23 December 2016, AC Milan became the first Coppa Italia runners-up to win the Supercoppa Italiana, after defeating Juventus on penalties. In 2018, Serie A signed a deal with the General Sports Authority that would see Saudi Arabia host three of the next five Supercoppa Italiana. On 13 March 2023, Lega Serie A approved
345-481: The game was played in the Libyan capital Tripoli . Since 2009, nine of the fourteen venues chosen have been outside of Italy. Of the 36 finals played to date, the venues have been as follows: Since the game's inception, the Serie A scudetto and Coppa Italia have been won by the same team eight times. As a result, the Coppa Italia runners-up have participated in the subsequent Supercoppa on those occasions. This occurred in
368-643: The global market. If the league champions are also the national cup winners , they may play a selected XI team, or more commonly the runners-up from one of the competitions, typically from the league. The Finalissima between the national team continental champions of UEFA and CONMEBOL , also known as the CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions, plus its women's counterpart , are rare examples of 'super cups' between national sides. The following nations have an active super cup competition: Some continental football federations also have their own super cups: Most of
391-606: The match at the Estadio José María Minella in Mar del Plata , and won 5–4 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time. The competition was discontinued thereafter. The Artemio Franchi Cup can be considered a precursor of the King Fahd Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup , played in 1992 for the first time and organised by FIFA from its third edition in 1997. The competition featured title holders of
414-558: The match at the Parc des Princes in Paris , and won 2–0. The competition did not take place four years later, as the Netherlands ( UEFA Euro 1988 winners) and Uruguay ( 1987 Copa América winners) were unable to agree on a date for the match. The next edition took place in 1993 between the winners of the 1991 Copa América , Argentina , and the winners of UEFA Euro 1992 , Denmark . Argentina hosted
437-482: The same team won both the Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in the previous season, the Supercoppa was contested by the Serie A winner and the Coppa Italia runner-up, in essence becoming a rematch of the previous year's Coppa Italia final. Originally, it was scheduled in the summer as a curtain-raiser to the new season, played at the home stadium of the Serie A champions. Since 2018, the competition has been scheduled during
460-542: The winter months and takes place mainly outside Italy. Juventus is the most successful club with nine titles. The most frequent Supercoppa match-up has been Juventus against Lazio , occurring on five occasions. Inaugurated in 1988, 18 of the first 21 Supercoppa Italiana contested were played at the home of the Serie A winners, the exceptions being in 1993 and 2003, when it was held in the United States cities of Washington, D.C. , and East Rutherford, New Jersey , and in 2002 when
483-582: Was held at international level, the FIFA Confederations Cup . It was initially held on a biennial basis, every odd year, from 1993 until 2005 when it became quadrennial, the year before a World Cup in its host country. It featured the six continental champions, the World Cup winners and the host. The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup was the 10th and last Confederations Cup before FIFA abolished it for an expanded Club World Cup . CONMEBOL and UEFA relaunched
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#1733115117440506-534: Was relaunched in 2022 , after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between CONMEBOL and UEFA . Created in 1985 as the European/South American Nations Cup, it was also referred to as the "Artemio Franchi Cup" due to the competition's trophy, named after Artemio Franchi , former president of UEFA who died in a road accident in 1983. It was organised jointly between CONMEBOL and the European confederation, acting as an intercontinental super cup . The competition
529-514: Was the national team-equivalent to the Intercontinental Cup on the club level, played between the winners of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League and Copa Libertadores . The competition was to be held every four years, with the venue alternating between Europe and South America. It was first played in 1985, between the winners of UEFA Euro 1984 , France , and the winners of the 1983 Copa América , Uruguay . France hosted
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