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"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.  2. Approved by the government or someone in power. cfr.  It is synonymous with legal, legitimate, approved. cfr. 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.  cfr.  cfr.  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.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.  cfr.FIFA Council approves key organisational elements of the FIFA World Cup  - 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 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
YearWinner1960 Real Madrid 1961 Peñarol 1962 Santos 1963 Santos 1964 Internazionale 1965 Internazionale 1966 Peñarol1967 Racing Club 1968 Estudiantes 1969 Milan 1970 Feyenoord1971 Nacional1972 Ajax1973 Independiente 1974 Atlético Madrid  YearWinner1975Not held1976 Bayern München 1977 Boca Juniors1978Not held1979 Olimpia Asunción1980 Nacional1981 Flamengo 1982 Peñarol1983 Grêmio 1984 Independiente 1985 Juventus 1986 River Plate 1987 Porto1988 Nacional1989 Milan  YearWinner1990 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 Juniors2001 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:

Performance by club
ClubWinnersRunners-upWinning yearsRunner-up years Milan341969, 1989, 19901963, 1993, 1994, 2003 Peñarol321961, 1966, 19821960, 1987 Real Madrid321960, 1998, 20021966, 2000 Boca Juniors311977, 2000, 20032001 Nacional3—1971, 1980, 1988— Independiente241973, 19841964, 1965, 1972, 1974 Juventus211985, 19961973 Santos2—1962, 1963— Internazionale2—1964, 1965— São Paulo2—1992, 1993— Ajax2—1972, 1995— Bayern Munich2—1976, 2001— Porto2—1987, 2004— Estudiantes1219681969, 1970 Olimpia1219791990, 2002 Grêmio1119831995 River Plate1119861996 Manchester United1119991968 Racing1—1967— Feyenoord1—1970— Atlético Madrid1—1974— Flamengo1—1981— Red Star Belgrade1—1991— Vélez Sarsfield1—1994— Borussia Dortmund1—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

CountryWinnersRunners-upWinning clubsWinning years99Boca, Independiente, Estudiantes, River Plate, Racing Club, Vélez Sarsfield1967, 1968, 1973, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1994, 2000, 200375Milan, Juventus, Internazionale1964, 1965, 1969, 1985, 1989, 1990, 199665Santos, São Paulo, Grêmio, Flamengo1962, 1963, 1981, 1983, 1992, 199362Peñarol, Nacional1961, 1966, 1971, 1980, 1982, 198843Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid1960, 1974, 1998, 200232Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund1976, 1997, 200131Ajax, Feyenoord1970, 1972, 199522Porto1987, 200415Manchester United199912Olimpia19791—Red Star Belgrade1991—2———1———1———1———1———1——

Performance by confederation

ConfederationWinnersRunners-upWinning clubsWinning countriesCONMEBOL22 21 134UEFA21 22 127

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.

PlayerClubGoalsAppsYears Pelé Santos731962, 1963 Alberto Spencer Peñarol661960, 1961, 1966 Luis Artime Nacional321971 José Sasía Peñarol331961 Santana Benfica341961, 1962 Sandro Mazzola Internazionale341964, 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).

PlayerNationClubOpponentGoalsGoal TimesScoreTournamentRoundDatePelé Brazil Santos Benfica315'; 25'; 64'5–21962 Intercontinental CupSecond leg11 October 1962

 Man of the Match 

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

YearPlayerClub1980 Waldemar Victorino Nacional1981 Zico Flamengo1982 Jair Peñarol1983 Renato Gaúcho Grêmio1984 José Percudani Independiente1985 Michel Platini Juventus1986 Antonio Alzamendi River Plate1987 Rabah Madjer Porto1988 Santiago Ostolaza Nacional1989 Alberigo Evani Milan1990 Frank Rijkaard Milan1991 Vladimir Jugović Red Star Belgrade1992 Raí São Paulo1993 Toninho Cerezo São Paulo1994 Omar Asad Vélez Sársfield1995 Danny Blind Ajax1996 Alessandro Del Piero Juventus1997 Andreas Möller Borussia Dortmund1998 Raúl Real Madrid1999 Ryan Giggs Manchester United2000 Martín Palermo Boca Juniors2001 Samuel Kuffour Bayern Munich2002 Ronaldo Real Madrid2003 Matías Donnet Boca Juniors2004 Maniche Porto

Related pages
FIFA Club World Championship
Copa Toyota Libertadores
UEFA Champions League 
Clubs of football world champions
Bibliography



References

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

Intercontinental Cup
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