Super cup

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For the German auto racing series, see Supercup.

A Super cup is a competition, usually but not exclusively in association football, which often forms the ’curtain-raiser’ to a season. It is typically contested on a national level by two competition winners of the previous season: the knock-out cup winner and the league winner. There are also continental super cups, like the UEFA Super Cup in football, which puts together winners of the top- and second-tier UEFA competitions. 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.

If the league champions are also the national cup winners, they may play the runners-up from one of the competitions.

Football[]

National super cups[]

The FA Community Shield is contested by the champions of the Premier League and FA Cup

The following nations have an active super cup competition:

AFC[]

CAF[]

CONCACAF[]

CONMEBOL[]

OFC[]

UEFA[]

Defunct super cups[]

Cross-border super cups[]

Continental super cups[]

Some continental football federations also have their own super cups:

Intercontinental super cups[]

Most of 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.[1]

A similar tournament 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.

Other tournaments like this have been held, including the Suruga Bank Championship (pitting the Copa Sudamericana and J.League Cup winners), 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.

Basketball[]

National Supercups[]

Regional[]

Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia North Macedonia Montenegro Serbia Slovenia

Continental level[]

Water polo[]

National super cups[]

Continental super cups[]

Other sports[]

  • IIHF Super Cup, a defunct ice hockey competition.
  • The Super Powers Cup was an annual international rugby union competition contested by national teams from Canada, Japan, Russia and United States. In 2005, its name was changed to the Super Cup.
  • The ADAC Supercup, commonly known as Supercup; a German sportscar racing series held between 1985 and 1989.
  • Porsche Supercup, an international one make racing series for Porsche 911 Carreras

References[]

  1. ^ "FIFA Council approves key organisational elements of the FIFA World Cup" (Press release). FIFA. 27 October 2017. Archived from the original on October 27, 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
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