List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season
In a football season, clubs typically compete in a number of different competitions: usually a domestic league and at least one cup competition, as well as sometimes competing in continental football, that is, the tournaments organised by one of FIFA's five confederations. Winning multiple competitions is seen as a particularly momentous achievement.[1][2]
Although doubles and trebles are fairly common achievements,[3] winning four or more trophies in one season is exceptionally rare. In recent years, the neologisms quadruple, quintuple, sextuple (and so on) have come to be occasionally used to refer to winning four, five or six top-tier trophies in a single season or a year.[4][5][2][6][7][8]
Quadruple
The quadruple refers to a club winning four tournaments in one season or one year.[4]
- English club Arsenal Ladies won a Quadruple in the 2006-07 season. They accomplished this by winning the;[9]
- Women's Premier League (Highest Domestic League Competition)
- Women's FA Cup (Highest Domestic Cup Competition)
- Women's League Cup (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition)
- Women's UEFA Cup (Highest Continental Competition)
- Santos won all four tournaments in which they competed in the 1962 season[10]:
- Campeonato Paulista
- Intercontinental Cup
- Copa Libertadores
- Taça Brasil
- AC Milan won four trophies in year 1994, two Domestics and two Continentals:
- 1993-94 Serie A
- 1994 Supercoppa Italiana
- 1993-94 UEFA Champions League
- 1994 UEFA Super Cup
Quintuple
The term quintuple is used to refer to a club winning five tournaments in a season or in a year.
- European Cup (Highest Continental Competition)
- Scottish First Division (Highest Domestic League Competition)
- Scottish Cup (Highest Domestic Cup Competition)
- Scottish League Cup (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition)
- Glasgow Cup (Regional Domestic Cup Competition)
- Spanish club F.C. Barcelona have achieved this feat twice: in 2009 (as part of sextuple) and in 2011,[15] winning all the titles that year except for 2010–11 Copa del Rey where they were runner up:
- 2010–11 La Liga (Highest Domestic Competition)
- 2011 Supercopa de España (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition)
- 2010–11 UEFA Champions League (Highest Continental Competition)
- 2011 UEFA Super Cup (Secondary Continental Cup Competition)
- 2011 FIFA Club World Cup (Highest Intercontinental Competition)
- Italian club Internazionale have achieved this feat,[7] winning all the titles in 2010 except UEFA Super Cup:
- 2009–10 Serie A (Highest Domestic Competition)
- 2009–10 Coppa Italia (Highest Domestic Cup Competition)
- 2010 Supercoppa Italiana (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition)
- 2009–10 UEFA Champions League (Highest Continental Competition)
- 2010 FIFA Club World Cup (Highest Intercontinental Competition)
Sextuple
The term sextuple is used to refer to a club winning six tournaments in a year.
- FC Barcelona are the only team to ever win a sextuple, when they won all six domestic and international titles they contested in 2009: their three trophies in the 2008–09 season allowed them to play and win another three competitions the following season.[16][17][18][19][20]
- 2008–09 La Liga (Highest Domestic League Competition)
- 2008–09 Copa del Rey (Highest Domestic Cup Competition)
- 2008–09 UEFA Champions League (Highest Continental Competition)
- 2009 Supercopa de España (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition, For Winners of La Liga and Copa del Rey)
- 2009 UEFA Super Cup (Secondary Continental Cup Competition, For Winners of UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup)
- 2009 FIFA Club World Cup (Highest Intercontinental Competition, For Winners of Continental Competitions, which is UEFA Champions League in Europe).[8]
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