UEFA Super Cup
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| UEFA Super Cup |
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| Founded |
| 1972 |
| Continent |
| Europe (UEFA) |
| Number of Teams |
| 2 |
| Current Champions (2006-07) |
 A.C. Milan |
| Most successful club |
| A.C. Milan (5 time champions, 2 times runner-up) |
| Website |
| (Website) |
The European Super Cup (UEFA Super Cup) is at stake in an annual football game between the reigning champions of the UEFA Cup and the Champions League. It takes place at the start of the domestic season, in August, and it is generally regarded as a minor event, with the Champions League and UEFA Cup winners not always fielding their strongest sides; since the game happens after the Summer transfer window, the teams selected may be different from the ones who won the qualifying competitions.
The most successful team is Italian side AC Milan, who have won the trophy five times.
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[edit] History
The European Super Cup was created in 1972 by Anton Witkamp, a reporter and later sports editor of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. The idea came to him in a time where Dutch total football was Europe's finest and Dutch football clubs were living their golden era (especially Ajax). Witkamp was looking for something new to definitely decide which was the best team in Europe and also to further test Ajax's legendary team, led by their star player Johan Cruyff. It was then proposed that the winner of the European Cup would face the winner of the Cup Winners' Cup.
All was set for a new competition to be born. However, when Witkamp tried to get an official endorsement to his competition, the UEFA president turned it down.
Still, the cup dispute went ahead despite the unofficial status. It was played in two legs and was financially supported by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. Ajax beat Rangers and won the very first European Super Cup. Since then, the competition has been officially recognised and supported by UEFA.
Although the two-legged format was kept, in some years, the European Super Cup was decided in one single match whether because of schedule dilemmas or political problems. In 1974, 1981 and 1985, the European Super Cup was not played at all. Since 1998 the European Super Cup has always been decided in one single match, in Monaco's Stade Louis II.
At the end of the 1998/99 season, the Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued by UEFA. Since the beginning of the 1999/2000 season, the European Super Cup has been contested between the respective winners of the UEFA Champions League (formerly the European Cup before the format was changed) and the UEFA Cup.
[edit] Trophy Changes
The UEFA Super Cup trophy has undergone several changes in its history. The first trophy that was presented to Ajax in 1973 and 1974 was extremely large, bigger than the european cup, this was replaced by a plaque, that had a Gold UEFA Emblem on it with the continent inscribed within the Emblem. The next trophy was the smallest and lightest of all the European club trophies, weighing just 5kg and measuring a modest 42.5cm in height. With the UEFA Champions League trophy weighing in at 8kg and the UEFA Cup at 15kg. Now, the new model weighs 12.2kg.
As in other UEFA trophies, the team which wins 3 times in a row or 5 in total, holds permanently the trophy; this was the case of AC Milan in 2007.
[edit] European Super Cup finals
| 2007 | Milan |
3 - 1 |  Sevilla |
Referee: Konrad Plautz  |
Inzaghi  55'Jankulovski 62'Kaká 87' |
Renato 14' |
| 2006 | Barcelona |
0 - 3 | Sevilla |
Referee: Stefano Farina |
| Renato 7' Kanouté 45'Maresca 90' (pen) |
| 2005 | Liverpool  |
3 - 1 a.e.t. |
 CSKA Moscow |
Referee: René Temmink  |
| Cissé 82' 103' García 109' |
Carvalho 28' |
| 2004 | Porto  |
1 - 2 | Valencia |
Referee: Terje Hauge  |
| Quaresma 78' |
Baraja 32' Di Vaio 67' |
| 2003 | Milan |
1 - 0 | Porto |
Referee: Graham Barber |
| Shevchenko 10' |
| 2002 | Real Madrid |
3 - 1 | Feyenoord |
Referee: Hugh Dallas  |
| Paauwe 15' (o.g) Roberto Carlos 21'Guti 60' |
van Hooijdonk 56' |
| 2001 | Bayern Munich  |
2 - 3 | Liverpool |
Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira |
| Salihamidžić 57' Jancker 81' |
Riise 22' Heskey 45'Owen 46' |
| 2000 | Real Madrid |
1 - 2 a.e.t. |
 Galatasaray |
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| Raúl 79' (pen) |
Jardel 41' (pen) 103' |
| 1999 | Manchester United |
0 - 1 | Lazio |
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| Salas 35' |
| 1998 | Real Madrid |
0 - 1 | Chelsea |
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| Poyet 81' |
[edit] Two-legged finals
- aet - after extra time
- (C1) refers to entrants from the European Cup or Champions League
- (C2) refers to entrants from the Cup Winners' Cup
- (C3) refers to entrants from the UEFA or Fairs Cup
[edit] Performance by nation
| Nation | Winners | Runners up | Winning clubs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy |
9 | 3 | A.C. Milan (5), Juventus (2), Parma (1), Lazio (1) |
| England |
7 | 5 | Liverpool (3), Nottingham Forest (1), Aston Villa (1), Manchester United (1), Chelsea (1) |
| Spain |
6 | 8 | Barcelona (2), Valencia (2), Real Madrid (1), Sevilla (1) |
| Netherlands |
2[1] | 2[1] | Ajax (2[1]) |
.svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
3 | 0 | Anderlecht (2), KV Mechelen (1) |
| Portugal |
1 | 2 | Porto (1) |
| Scotland |
1 | 1 | Aberdeen (1) |
 USSR |
1 | 1 | Dynamo Kyiv (1) |
 Romania |
1 | 0 | Steaua Bucharest (1) |
| Turkey |
1 | 0 | Galatasaray (1) |
| Germany |
0 | 7 | |
 France |
0 | 1 | |
 Yugoslavia |
0 | 1 | |
| Russia |
0 | 1 |
[edit] By Club
| Team | Winners | Runners-Up | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AC Milan |
5 | 2 |
| 2 | Liverpool F.C. |
3 | 2 |
| 3 | AFC Ajax |
2[1] | 1 |
| 4 | FC Barcelona |
2 | 4 |
| 5 | Valencia CF |
2 | 0 |
| Juventus |
2 | 0 | |
| Anderlecht |
2 | 0 | |
| 8 | FC Porto |
1 | 2 |
| Real Madrid |
1 | 2 | |
| 10 | Manchester United |
1 | 1 |
| Nottingham Forest |
1 | 1 | |
| Dynamo Kyiv |
1 | 1 | |
| Sevilla FC |
1 | 1 | |
| 14 | Steaua Bucharest |
1 | 0 |
| Aston Villa |
1 | 0 | |
| Aberdeen |
1 | 0 | |
| Chelsea |
1 | 0 | |
| KV Mechelen |
1 | 0 | |
| AC Parma |
1 | 0 | |
| Lazio |
1 | 0 | |
| Galatasaray |
1 | 0 | |
| 22 | Bayern Munich |
0 | 3 |
| 23 | HSV |
0 | 2 |
| 24 | Rangers |
0 | 1 |
| PSV |
0 | 1 | |
| Sampdoria |
0 | 1 | |
| Werder Bremen |
0 | 1 | |
| Arsenal F.C. |
0 | 1 | |
| Real Zaragoza |
0 | 1 | |
| PSG |
0 | 1 | |
| Borussia Dortmund |
0 | 1 | |
| Feyenoord |
0 | 1 | |
| CSKA Moscow |
0 | 1 | |
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f UEFA sanctioned the UEFA Supercup for the first time in 1973. In 1972 was an unofficial edition and the I Centenary of Rangers FC (see History of the UEFA Supercup in uefa.com).
[edit] See also
- International club competition records
- UEFA competition records
- UEFA Champions League
- UEFA Cup
- Super Cup
[edit] External links
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UEFA Super Cups
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