Sextuple (association football)

The term sextuple is mainly used in the sports press for winning six important national and international titles in sport, especially in football, within one sporting year or season.

During a football season, clubs typically take part in a number of national competitions, such as in a league and one or more cup competitions, and sometimes in continental competitions. Winning multiple competitions is considered a particularly significant achievement. Doubles and triples tend to be long-remembered achievements, but they occur with a certain frequency, while winning four or more trophies in a season is much less common. In the 2010s, the terms quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple were sometimes used to refer to four, five, and six trophies in a single season.[1][2]

This list is limited to clubs that play in the top division of their league system.

FC Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich are the only two teams to have achieved the sextuple, having achieved that in 2009 and 2020 respectively.

The six trophies won by FC Barcelona in 2009 were exhibited in the Camp Nou Museum.
The six trophies won by FC Bayern Munich in 2020 exhibited in the Allianz Arena.

Sextuple in European football

In terms of football, the sextuple means that a club has to win six official competitions in a row. The performance can be achieved through victories in the same season.[3]

The three national titles
  • winning the national championship
  • winning the national cup
  • winning the national supercup or winning the national league cup

The two international titles in Continent
  • winning the UEFA Champions League
  • winning the UEFA Super Cup

The international title worldwide
  • winning the FIFA Club World Cup

Sextuple winners
Pep Guardiola, former Barcelona coach, who achieved the first international sextuple in 2009.

2009: Spain Barcelona
Year Title
2009 La Liga
Copa del Rey
Supercopa de España
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Super Cup
FIFA Club World Cup
Hansi Flick, former Bayern Munich coach, who achieved the second international sextuple in 2020.

2020: Germany Bayern Munich
Year Title
2020 Bundesliga
DFB-Pokal
DFL-Supercup
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Super Cup
FIFA Club World Cup

Missed sextuples

The following teams could not win the sixth official competition after the quintuple and thus missed the sextuple:

The seventh title

On 11 February 2021, just minutes after the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup Final had ended, Pep Guardiola jokingly challenged Bayern Munich to a match with previous sextuple winner Barcelona. As these two teams were the only ones to achieve a sextuple in football history, he suggested that they could play for a seventh title.[9]

Technically it is possible to win seven trophies; for example, a top-flight English club can win the Premier League, the FA Cup, the EFL Cup, the FA Community Shield, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup in a calendar year.

Celtic were close to achieving this when they won the Scottish First Division, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup, and the European Cup in 1967. However, there was an absence of a Scottish[lower-alpha 1] or European Super Cup,[lower-alpha 2] and their loss against Argentine side Racing Club in the 1967 Intercontinental Cup prevented them from achieving seven major honours.[10]

See also

Notes
  1. Scotland has never organized a domestic Super cup
  2. The UEFA Super Cup's inaugural competition was in 1973.

References
  1. "On this day in 2009 - Barcelona completed the only 'sextuple' in history". 19 December 2019.
  2. "Comparing sextuples: 2009 Barça vs. 2020 Bayern".
  3. UEFA.com. "Most titles | History | UEFA Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  4. "Atletico stun Inter in Super Cup". 27 August 2010.
  5. "Real Madrid beat Barcelona 1-0 to win Copa del Rey". 21 April 2011.
  6. "Watch: Borussia Dortmund win the Supercup – handing Pep Guardiola his first defeat as Bayern Munich coach".
  7. "Barcelona 1-1 Athletic Bilbao (Agg 1-5) | Spanish Super Cup report". TheGuardian.com. 17 August 2015.
  8. "Real Madrid shocked at home by Celta Vigo in Copa del Rey quarter-final". TheGuardian.com. 18 January 2017.
  9. "Pep Guardiola challenges Bayern Munich to sextuple showdown with Barcelona". Bundesliga. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  10. "Celtic's 1966/67 team voted the greatest club side of the last century". 20 April 2020.
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