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.

Intercontinental Cup
European/South American Cup
Toyota Cup
Founded1960
Abolished2004
RegionEurope
South America
Number of teams2
Related competitionsUEFA Champions League
Copa Libertadores
Last champions Porto
(2nd title)
Most successful club(s) Boca Juniors
Milan
Nacional
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

Year Winner
1960 Real Madrid
1961 Peñarol
1962 Santos
1963 Santos
1964 Internazionale
1965 Internazionale
1966 Peñarol
1967 Racing Club
1968 Estudiantes
1969 Milan
1970 Feyenoord
1971 Nacional
1972 Ajax
1973 Independiente
1974 Atlético Madrid
 
Year Winner
1975 Not held
1976 Bayern München
1977 Boca Juniors
1978 Not held
1979 Olimpia Asunción
1980 Nacional
1981 Flamengo
1982 Peñarol
1983 Grêmio
1984 Independiente
1985 Juventus
1986 River Plate
1987 Porto
1988 Nacional
1989 Milan
 
Year Winner
1990 Milan
1991 Red Star Belgrado
1992 São Paulo
1993 São Paulo
1994 Vélez Sarsfield
1995 Ajax
1996 Juventus
1997 Borussia Dortmund
1998 Real Madrid
1999 Manchester United
2000 Boca Juniors
2001 Bayern München
2002 Real Madrid
2003 Boca Juniors
2004 Porto

Since 2005: FIFA Club World Cup


Performances

The performance of various clubs is shown in the following tables:[9][10]

Performance by club

Club Winners Runners-up Winning years Runner-up years
Milan
3
4
1969, 1989, 1990 1963, 1993, 1994, 2003
Peñarol
3
2
1961, 1966, 1982 1960, 1987
Real Madrid
3
2
1960, 1998, 2002 1966, 2000
Boca Juniors
3
1
1977, 2000, 2003 2001
Nacional
3
1971, 1980, 1988
Independiente
2
4
1973, 1984 1964, 1965, 1972, 1974
Juventus
2
1
1985, 1996 1973
Santos
2
1962, 1963
Internazionale
2
1964, 1965
São Paulo
2
1992, 1993
Ajax
2
1972, 1995
Bayern Munich
2
1976, 2001
Porto
2
1987, 2004
Estudiantes
1
2
1968 1969, 1970
Olimpia
1
2
1979 1990, 2002
Grêmio
1
1
1983 1995
River Plate
1
1
1986 1996
Manchester United
1
1
1999 1968
Racing
1
1967
Feyenoord
1
1970
Atlético Madrid
1
1974
Flamengo
1
1981
Red Star Belgrade
1
1991
Vélez Sarsfield
1
1994
Borussia Dortmund
1
1997
Benfica
2
1961, 1962
Liverpool
2
1981, 1984
Cruzeiro
2
1976, 1997
Celtic
1
1967
Panathinaikos
1
1971
Borussia Mönchengladbach
1
1977
Malmö FF
1
1979
Nottingham Forest
1
1980
Aston Villa
1
1982
Hamburger SV
1
1983
Argentinos Juniors
1
1985
Steaua București
1
1986
PSV Eindhoven
1
1988
Atlético Nacional
1
1989
Colo-Colo
1
1991
Barcelona
1
1992
Vasco da Gama
1
1998
Palmeiras
1
1999
Once Caldas
1
2004

Performance by country

Country Winners Runners-up Winning clubs Winning years
 Argentina
9
9
Boca, Independiente, Estudiantes, River Plate, Racing Club, Vélez Sarsfield 1967, 1968, 1973, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1994, 2000, 2003
 Italy
7
5
Milan, Juventus, Internazionale 1964, 1965, 1969, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1996
 Brazil
6
5
Santos, São Paulo, Grêmio, Flamengo 1962, 1963, 1981, 1983, 1992, 1993
 Uruguay
6
2
Peñarol, Nacional 1961, 1966, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1988
 Spain
4
3
Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid 1960, 1974, 1998, 2002
 Germany
3
2
Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund 1976, 1997, 2001
 Netherlands
3
1
Ajax, Feyenoord 1970, 1972, 1995
 Portugal
2
2
Porto 1987, 2004
 England
1
5
Manchester United 1999
 Paraguay
1
2
Olimpia 1979
 Yugoslavia
1
Red Star Belgrade 1991
 Colombia
2
 Scotland
1
 Greece
1
 Sweden
1
 Romania
1
 Chile
1

Performance by confederation

Confederation Winners Runners-up Winning clubs Winning countries
CONMEBOL
22
21
13
4
UEFA
21
22
12
7

Coaches

  • Carlos Bianchi won three times as a coach: once with Vélez Sársfield in 1994, and twice with Boca Juniors in 2000 and 2003.
  • Luis Cubilla and Juan Mujica won cups both as players and coaches:
    • Luis Cubilla (played for Peñarol in 1961 and for Nacional in 1971, then coached Olimpia in 1979)
    • Juan Mujica (played for Nacional in 1971, and coached it in 1980)

Players

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.
    • In 1962, he scored five goals in two matches against Benfica. This included a hat-trick (three goals) in the second match played in Lisbon (the only hat trick in competition's history).[11]
    • In 1963, he scored two goals in one match (against Milan).[12][13][14]
  • Only six players scored at least three goals in the Intercontinental Cup.[15]
Player Club Goals Apps Years
Pelé Santos
7
3
1962, 1963
Alberto Spencer Peñarol
6
6
1960, 1961, 1966
Luis Artime Nacional
3
2
1971
José Sasía Peñarol
3
3
1961
Santana Benfica
3
4
1961, 1962
Sandro Mazzola Internazionale
3
4
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
Pelé Brazil Santos Benfica315'; 25'; 64'5–21962 Intercontinental CupSecond leg11 October 1962

Man of the Match

Martín Palermo, the Man of the Match in 2000.

The man of the match was selected from 1980. Here is the list of the winners.[16]

Year Player Club
1980
Waldemar Victorino Nacional
1981
Zico Flamengo
1982
Jair Peñarol
1983
Renato Gaúcho Grêmio
1984
José Percudani Independiente
1985
Michel Platini Juventus
1986
Antonio Alzamendi River Plate
1987
Rabah Madjer Porto
1988
Santiago Ostolaza Nacional
1989
Alberigo Evani Milan
1990
Frank Rijkaard Milan
1991
Vladimir Jugović Red Star Belgrade
1992
Raí São Paulo
1993
Toninho Cerezo São Paulo
1994
Omar Asad Vélez Sársfield
1995
Danny Blind Ajax
1996
Alessandro Del Piero Juventus
1997
Andreas Möller Borussia Dortmund
1998
Raúl Real Madrid
1999
Ryan Giggs Manchester United
2000
Martín Palermo Boca Juniors
2001
Samuel Kuffour Bayern Munich
2002
Ronaldo Real Madrid
2003
Matías Donnet Boca Juniors
2004
Maniche Porto


Bibliography

  • Amorim, Luís (1 December 2005). Intercontinental Cup 1960-2004. LuísAmorimEditions. ISBN 978-989-95672-5-2.
  • Amorim, Luís (1 September 2005). Taça Intercontinental 1960-2004. Multinova. ISBN 989-551-040-3.

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  1. "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". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) 2. Approved by the government or someone in power. cfr. dictionary.cambridge.org. "official". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) It is synonymous with legal, legitimate, approved. cfr. thesaurus.com. "Synonyms for official". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. 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" (PDF). p. 5. cfr. "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018: Statistical-kit" (PDF). 10 December 2018. p. 13. cfr. "2018/19 UEFA Champions League regulations" (PDF). p. 10.
  3. 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" (PDF). p. 19. cfr.
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