Super cup

A super cup is a competition, in association football, basketball, handball, volleyball and rugby union which often forms the 'curtain raiser' to a season, and typically involves only two teams who have qualified through success in other competitions during the previous season.

Some Super Cups have even been staged in venues outside their home country, such as the Italian, French, Spanish, Turkish, Mexican, and Egyptian games and increasingly function as publicity events for that league in the global market.

The following nations have an active super cup competition: Some continental football federations also have their own super cups: Most of the continental football confederations have jointly held a competition pitting their champions against each other: All of these competitions are now defunct and have been succeeded by the FIFA Club World Cup, which features the champions of all of the confederations, plus the champion of the host country.

In 2017, FIFA retroactively recognised the winners of the European/South American Cup as world champions.

[1] A similar tournament was held at international level, the FIFA Confederations Cup.