Super Cup
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A Super Cup is a fixture, usually but not exclusively in football, which often forms the curtain-raiser to a season. Most Super Cups are one-off fixtures between the League Champions and major Cup Winners of the previous season. Sometimes these are two-legged affairs, with a match played at each side's stadium, but increasingly they are one-off fixtures at a neutral venue. The name Super Cup suggests that the match ultimately decides the best team in the nation, but the League Champions are still considered Champions, regardless of who wins the Super Cup. Super Cups are not considered as important, more as prestige matches.
In football, most nations have a super cup:
Albanian Supercup
Austrian Supercup
Belgian Supercup
Bulgarian Supercup
Croatian Supercup
Cyprus FA Shield
Trophée Des Champions
FA Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield)
German Supercup (In 1997, this was superseded by a league cup called DFB Ligapokal.)
Greek Super Cup
Iranian Super Cup
Football Association of Ireland Super Cup
Italian Super Cup
Japanese Super Cup
Lithuanian Supercup
Johan Cruijff-schaal
Polish SuperCup
SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira
Romanian Super Cup
Russian Super Cup
San Marino Federal Trophy
Korean Super Cup
Spanish Super Cup
Supercupen
Turkish Super Cup
Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası
Ukrainian Super Cup
USSR Super Cup
Vietnamese Super Cup
Most of the continental football federations also have their own super cups:
- UEFA: European Super Cup
- AFC: Asian Super Cup,
- CAF: CAF Super Cup
- CONMEBOL: Recopa Sudamericana
- (From 1988 to 1997 there was a competition called the Supercopa Sudamericana. However, this took a different form to most Super Cups, featuring past winners of the Copa Libertadores.)
[edit] Other Sports
- Spain also has a football-style Super Cup available for basketball.
- Super Powers Cup, was an annual international Rugby Union competition contested by national teams from Canada, Japan, Russia and United States. In 2005 its name was changed to the Super Cup.
