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

Founded	1960
Abolished	2004
Region	Europe South America
Number of teams	2
Related competitions	UEFA 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

Main article: List of Intercontinental Cup winning managers

• 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 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	Benfica	3	15'; 25'; 64'	5–2	1962 Intercontinental Cup	Second leg	11 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

Related pages

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

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.