Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)

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.

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 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. 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; also the statistics confirm this.

## Champions

_See also:_ **Clubs of football world champions**
|Year|Winner|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class=wikitable||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1960|Real Madrid||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1961|Peñarol||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1962|Santos||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1963|Santos||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1964|Internazionale||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1965|Internazionale||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1966|Peñarol||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1967|Racing Club||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1968|Estudiantes||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1969|Milan||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1970|Feyenoord||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1971|Nacional||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1972|Ajax||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1973|Independiente||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1974|Atlético Madrid|}||{| class=wikitable|
|style="text-align:center;"|1975|style="text-align:center;"|Not held|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1976|Bayern München||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1977|Boca Juniors||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1978|style="text-align:center;"|Not held|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1979|Olimpia Asunción||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1980|Nacional||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1981|Flamengo||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1982|Peñarol||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1983|Grêmio||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1984|Independiente||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1985|Juventus||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1986|River Plate||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1987|Porto||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1988|Nacional||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1989|Milan|}||{| class=wikitable|
|style="text-align:center;"|1990|Milan||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1991|Red Star Belgrado||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1992|São Paulo||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1993|São Paulo||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1994|Vélez Sarsfield||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1995|Ajax||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1996|Juventus||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1997|Borussia Dortmund||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1998|Real Madrid||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1999|Manchester United||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2000|Boca Juniors||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2001|Bayern München||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2002|Real Madrid||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2003|Boca Juniors||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2004|Porto||||
|}||||||
Since 2005: FIFA Club World Cup

## Performances

The performance of various clubs is shown in the following tables:

### 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

|width=11%|Country|width=10%|Winners|width=10%|Runners-up|width=36%|Winning clubs|width=33%|Winning years|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**9**|9|Boca, Independiente, Estudiantes, River Plate, Racing Club, Vélez Sarsfield|1967, 1968, 1973, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1994, 2000, 2003||||||
||**7**|5|Milan, Juventus, Internazionale|1964, 1965, 1969, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1996||||||
||**6**|5|Santos, São Paulo, Grêmio, Flamengo|1962, 1963, 1981, 1983, 1992, 1993||||||
||**6**|2|Peñarol, Nacional|1961, 1966, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1988||||||
||**4**|3|Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid|1960, 1974, 1998, 2002||||||
||**3**|2|Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund|1976, 1997, 2001||||||
||**3**|1|Ajax, Feyenoord|1970, 1972, 1995||||||
||**2**|2|Porto|1987, 2004||||||
||**1**|5|Manchester United|1999||||||
||**1**|2|Olimpia|1979||||||
||**1**|—|Red Star Belgrade|1991||||||
||—|2|—|—||||||
||—|1|—|—||||||
||—|1|—|—||||||
||—|1|—|—||||||
||—|1|—|—||||||
||—|1|—|—||||||

### Performance by confederation

|width=15%|Confederation|width=10%|Winners|width=10%|Runners-up|width=10%|Winning clubs|width=10%|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

- Alessandro Costacurta and Paolo Maldini played five times in the competition, all with  Milan (1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003).
- Estudiantes (1968, 1969 and 1970) and  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 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).
    - In 1963, he scored two goals in one match (against Milan).
- Only six players scored at least three goals in the Intercontinental Cup.

|width=20%|Player|width=20%|Club|width=5%|Goals|width=5%|Apps|width=15%|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|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.

|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|

## Related pages

- FIFA Club World Championship
- Copa Toyota Libertadores
- UEFA Champions League
- Clubs of football world champions

## Other websites

- International Clubs Cup - The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- http://www.fifa.com/

## Infobox (football tournament)

- **name**: Intercontinental Cup

- **organiser**: UEFA
 CONMEBOL
- **founded**: 1960 Intercontinental Cup, 1960
- **abolished**: 2004 Intercontinental Cup, 2004
- **region**: Europe
 South America
- **number of teams**: 2
- **related comps**: UEFA Champions League
 Copa Libertadores
- **current champions**: FC Porto, Porto
 (2nd title)
- **most successful club**: Boca Juniors
 A.C. Milan, Milan
 Club Nacional de Football, Nacional
 Peñarol
 Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid
(3 titles each)