Soccer: European Super Cup, Summary and Data

Information about the European Super Cup with the last 10 winners of the competition, the teams with the most trophies won in the history of the tournment and an index to every final played.

The European Super Cup (UEFA Super Cup) is at stake in an annual soccer game between the reigning champions of the UEFA Cup and the Champions League. It takes place at the start of the domestic season, in August, and though it could be viewed as the ultimate European club championship decider, it is generally regarded as a minor event, with the Champions League and UEFA Cup winners not always fielding their best players and not at top fitness levels.

In 1974, 1981 and 1985, the European Super Cup was not played. Since 1998 the European Super Cup has always been disputed in one single match, in Monaco's Stade Louis II. At the end of the 1998/99 season, the Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued by UEFA. Since the beginning of the 1999/2000 season, the European Super Cup has been contested between the respective winners of the UEFA Cup and Champions League.

The European Super Cup was created in 1972 by Anton Witkamp, a reporter and later sports editor of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. The idea came to him in a time where Dutch total soccer was Europe's finest and Dutch soccer clubs were living their golden era. Witkamp was looking for something new to definitely decide which was the best team in Europe and also to further test Ajax's legendary team, led by their star player Johan Cruyff. It was then proposed that the winner of the European Champions Cup would face the winner of the Cup Winners' Cup. All was set for a new competition to be born. However, when Witkamp tried to get an official endorsement to his competition, the UEFA president turned it down because of a one-year ban applied to Cup Winners' Cup holders Rangers, due to misbehavior of their supporters.

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