Intercontinental Cup
The European/South American Cup, commonly called the Intercontinental Cup or Toyota Cup, was a football competition by UEFA and CONMEBOL. The competition was between the winners of the European Champions League and the South American Copa Libertadores in a match played each year.
| Founded | 1960 |
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| Abolished | 2004 |
| Region | Europe South America |
| Number of teams | 2 |
| Related competitions | UEFA Champions League Copa Libertadores |
| Last champions |  Porto (2nd title) |
| Most successful club(s) | File:Flag of Argentina.svg Boca Juniors MilanFile:Flag of Uruguay.svg Nacional File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Peñarol  Real Madrid(3 titles each) |
The Cup was called the World Club Championship until the first FIFA Club World Cup was held in 2000. It was played by representatives clubs of most developed continents in the football world.
From 2005, the Intercontinental Cup was replaced by the FIFA Club World Cup. The FIFA Club World Cup also includes North American, Asian, African and Oceanian winners. In 2017 FIFA officially recognized all of them as club world champions (de jure) with the same status to the FIFA Club World Cup winners or official[1][2] world champions FIFA. In synthesis FIFA has two types of world champions, those deriving from the Intercontinental Cup and those deriving from the Club World Cup, the two competitions confer the same title.[3][4][5] The football experts agree that the intercontinental cup is the most fascinating football competition ever existed thanks to the great balance in the field given by the lower economic gap of the time and rules on foreign players who gradually favored the European teams and weakened the South American teams;[6][7] also the statistics confirm this.[8]
Champions
See also: Clubs of football world champions
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Since 2005: FIFA Club World Cup
Performances
The performance of various clubs is shown in the following tables:[9][10]
Performance by club
Performance by country
Performance by confederation
| Confederation | Winners | Runners-up | Winning clubs | Winning countries |
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Coaches
- Carlos Bianchi won three times as a coach: once with File:Flag of Argentina.svg Vélez Sársfield in 1994, and twice with File:Flag of Argentina.svg Boca Juniors in 2000 and 2003.
- Luis Cubilla and Juan Mujica won cups both as players and coaches:
- Luis Cubilla (played for File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Peñarol in 1961 and for File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Nacional in 1971, then coached File:Flag of Paraguay.svg Olimpia in 1979)
- Juan Mujica (played for File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Nacional in 1971, and coached it in 1980)
Players
- Alessandro Costacurta and Paolo Maldini played five times in the competition, all with Milan (1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003).
- File:Flag of Argentina.svg Estudiantes (1968, 1969 and 1970) and File:Flag of Argentina.svg Independiente (1972, 1973 and 1974) played in three consecutive years. A few players in those teams played in all three, including Carlos Bilardo and Juan Ramón Verón.
All-time top scorers
Pelé is the all-time top goalscorer in Intercontinental Cup's history with 7 goals in 3 matches
- Pelé is the all-time top scorer in the competition. He scored seven goals in three matches.
- Only six players scored at least three goals in the Intercontinental Cup.[15]
| Player | Club | Goals | Apps | Years |
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| File:Flag of Brazil.svg Pelé | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Santos | 1962, 1963 | ||
| File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Alberto Spencer | File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Peñarol | 1960, 1961, 1966 | ||
| File:Flag of Argentina.svg Luis Artime | File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Nacional | 1971 | ||
| File:Flag of Uruguay.svg José Sasía | File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Peñarol | 1961 | ||
| Santana
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Benfica
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1961, 1962 | ||
| Sandro Mazzola
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Internazionale
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1964, 1965 |
Hat-tricks
- Pelé is the only player in the history of the competition to score a hat-trick (Lisbon, 1962, second leg, against Benfica).
| Player | Nation | Club | Opponent | Goals | Goal Times | Score | Tournament | Round | Date |
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| Pelé | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Santos | Benfica |
3 | 15'; 25'; 64' | 5–2 | 1962 Intercontinental Cup | Second leg | 11 October 1962 |
Man of the Match
The man of the match was selected from 1980. Here is the list of the winners.[16]
Related pages
Bibliography
- Amorim, Luís. Intercontinental Cup 1960-2004 (1 December 2005)LuísAmorimEditions. ISBN 978-989-95672-5-2.
- Amorim, Luís. Taça Intercontinental 1960-2004 (1 September 2005)Multinova. ISBN 989-551-040-3.
References
- ↑ "Official (plural officials), from the Latin officiālis.1. The official word is also used to refer to what is recognized or derives from an authority. cfr. dictionary.com. Official, definition. 2. Approved by the government or someone in power. cfr. dictionary.cambridge.org. official. It is synonymous with legal, legitimate, approved. cfr. thesaurus.com. Synonyms for official.
- ↑ For FIFA statute, official competitions are those for representative teams organized by FIFA or any confederation. Representative teams are usually national teams but also club teams that represent a confederation or a member association in a continental competition. cfr. FIFA Statutes, April 2016 edition. p. 5. Retrieved 2019-08-05. cfr. FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018: Statistical-kit (10 December 2018). p. 13. Retrieved 5 August 2019. cfr. 2018/19 UEFA Champions League regulations. p. 10.
- ↑ While it does not promote the statistical unification of tournaments, that is, it has not changed its name to the Intercontinental Cup, FIFA is the only organization with worldwide jurisdiction over continental confederations and, then, the only one that can confer a title on that level, indeed the title was assigned by FIFA and therefore, the title awarded by the same world federation to the winners of the Intercontinental Cup is legally a FIFA world title. cfr. FIFA Statutes, April 2016 edition. p. 19. Retrieved 2019-08-05. cfr.
- ↑ FIFA Club World Cup 2017. FIFA Report 2017 (December 2017). Zurich: Fédération Internationale de Football Association. p. 15, 40, 41, 42. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
- ↑ FIFA Council approves key organisational elements of the FIFA World Cup Archived 2017-10-27 at the Wayback Machine - Recognition of all European and South American teams that won the Intercontinental Cup – played between 1960 and 2004 – as club world champions./ www.fifa.com
- ↑ "Balance that no longer exists; in today's globalised market the best players South Americans are representing the European champions teams" (December 2017)ESPN.
- ↑ Giovanni Fiderio. "La Coppa Intercontinentale, il trofeo più prestigioso" (in it) (9 January 2018).
- ↑ FIFA Club World Cup 2017 (December 2017). Zurich: Fédération Internationale de Football Association. p. 15, 40, 41, 42. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
- ↑ Intercontinental Club Cup. http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/toyota.html.
- ↑ Hall of Honour. http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/toyota-honour.html.
- ↑ Intercontinental Club Cup 1962.
- ↑ Intercontinental Club Cup 1963.
- ↑ Extraordinary Pele crowns Santos in Lisbon. FIFA. 11 October 2012. https://www.fifa.com/news/y=2012/m=10/news=extraordinary-pele-crowns-santos-lisbon-1782903.html. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ↑ King-less Santos retain throne in style. FIFA. 16 November 2013. https://www.fifa.com/news/y=2013/m=11/news=king-less-santos-retain-throne-style-2224094.html. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ↑ Trivia on Intercontinental (Toyota) Cup. http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/toyotatrivia.html.
- ↑ Toyota Cup – Most Valuable Player of the Match Award. http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/toyotamvp.html.