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 with the same status to the FIFA Club World Cup winners or world champions de jure.[1][2]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;[3][4] also the statistics (Report 2017) confirm this.[5]
List Champions[change | change source]
See also: Clubs of football world champions
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Since 2005: FIFA Club World Cup
Related pages[change | change source]
- FIFA Club World Championship
- Copa Toyota Libertadores
- UEFA Champions League
- Clubs of football world champions
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "FIFA Club World Cup 2017" (PDF). FIFA Report 2017 (Zurich: Fédération Internationale de Football Association): pages 15, 40, 41, 42. December 2017. http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mencompcwc/02/67/91/87/statskit_fcwc2017_event_neutral.pdf.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Balance that no longer exists; in today's globalised market the best players South Americans are representing the European champions teams". ESPN. December 2017. http://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-club-world-cup/0/blog/post/3311801/gremio-focused-on-outscoring-not-outplaying-real-madrid-in-club-world-cup-final.
- ↑ (in Italian) "The FIFA Club World Cup does not have the charm of the Intercontinental Cup". http://ilposticipo.it/calcio/mondiale-per-club-pronostico-favorite/.
- ↑ "FIFA Club World Cup 2017" (PDF). FIFA Report 2017 (Zurich: Fédération Internationale de Football Association): pages 15, 40, 41, 42. December 2017. http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mencompcwc/02/67/91/87/statskit_fcwc2017_event_neutral.pdf.
