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.
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
Since 2005: FIFA Club World Cup
Performances
The performance of various clubs is shown in the following tables:
Performance by club
Performance by country
Performance by confederation
Coaches
Carlos Bianchi won three times as a coach: once with Velez Sarsfield 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 Penarol 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 Ramon Veron.
All-time top scorers
Pele 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.
Hat-tricks
Pele is the only player in the history of the competition to score a hat-trick (Lisbon, 1962, second leg, against Benfica).
Man of the Match
The man of the match was selected from 1980. Here is the list of the winners.
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/
Football competitions
UEFA
CONMEBOL
FIFA
2000 establishments