Joan Gamper Trophy

Joan Gamper Trophy
Trofeu Joan Gamper

Founded	1966
Region	Catalonia
Number of teams	2 (1997–) 4 (1966–96)
Current champions	Barcelona
Most successful club(s)	Barcelona (37 titles)
Television broadcasters	TV3 Televisió de Catalunya
Website	Official homepage

The Joan Gamper Trophy (Catalan: Trofeu Joan Gamper) or Joan Gamper Cup is an annual friendly football competition held in August, before the start of Spanish club FC Barcelona's La Liga season.^[1] The competition is hosted by FC Barcelona at the Camp Nou stadium and is named in honour of Joan Gamper, a founding member, player, and later president of the club. The competition was inaugurated in 1966 by Enric Llaudet, one of Gamper's successors as club president.^[2] The trophy itself is an 800 grams (1.8 lb) silver cup with five micrometres of gold finishing, on top of a 10 kilograms (22 lb) marble plinth base.^[3]

Initially, four teams participated in the competition, which featured two semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and a final. For the first competition in 1966, Barcelona were joined by Belgium's RSC Anderlecht, France's FC Nantes, and Germany's 1. FC Köln. Barcelona beat the German team 3–1 in the final. Köln subsequently won the competition in 1978 and 1981 and were runners-up in 1979, making them the only team, other than the hosts, to win the competition more than once. The next edition saw the first appearance of another Spanish team, Atlético Madrid, who along with the hosts, were joined by German side Bayern Munich, and Argentina's Boca Juniors. The latter two clubs are among the most regular guests. Bayern were runners-up in 1984, 1987 and 2006, while Boca became the first of several South American guests to be invited and have since returned in 1977, 1984, 2003 and 2008.

Subsequent competitions have included teams from the Italian Serie A, while the German Bundesliga has also provided regular entrants. Other Spanish La Liga clubs have also occasionally been invited, including Tenerife and Valencia, who were winners in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Since 1997, the competition has only featured a one-off game, the tournament being shortened due to an increased fixture list and a shorter close season.^[1] If the match is tied after the 90 minutes, no extra-time is played and the winner is decided after a penalty shootout.

The only non-European team to win the tournament was Brazil's Internacional, in 1982.

Winners and finals

A (p) marks the winner was determined after a penalty shootout.

Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third	Score	Fourth
1	1966	Barcelona	3–1	Köln	Anderlecht	7–0	Nantes
2	1967	Barcelona	2–1	Atlético Madrid	Boca Juniors	1–0	Bayern Munich
3	1968	Barcelona	5–4	Flamengo	Athletic Bilbao	3–1	Werder Bremen
4	1969	Barcelona	2–1	Real Zaragoza	Slovan Bratislava	2–1	Estudiantes
5	1970	Ujpest !Újpest	3–1	Dynamo Moscow	Barcelona	1–0	Schalke 04
6	1971	Barcelona	1–0	Chacarita Juniors	Budapest Honvéd	2–0	Bayern Munich
7	1972	Borussia M'gladbach	3–2	CSKA Sofia	Barcelona	0–0 (p)	Vasco da Gama
8	1973	Barcelona	2–2 (p)	Borussia M'gladbach	San Lorenzo	1–1 (p)	Municipal Lima
9	1974	Barcelona	4–1	Rangers	Athletic Bilbao	1–0	Ajax
10	1975	Barcelona	2–1	Feyenoord	Spartak Trnava	1–1 (p)	Ujpest !Újpest
11	1976	Barcelona	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sparta Prague	1–1 (p)	CSKA Moscow
12	1977	Barcelona	4–1	Schalke 04	Boca Juniors	2–1	Slovan Bratislava
13	1978	Köln	5–0	Rapid Vienna	Barcelona	3–2	Botafogo
14	1979	Barcelona	3–2 (aet)	Köln	Anderlecht	2–2 (p)	FC Zürich
15	1980	Barcelona	2–1	Vasco da Gama	River Plate	0–0 (p)	PSV
16	1981	Köln	4–0	Barcelona	Vasco da Gama	2–1	Ipswich Town
17	1982	Internacional	3–1	Manchester City	Barcelona	1–1 (p)	Köln
18	1983	Barcelona	2–1	Borussia Dortmund	Anderlecht	4–2	Nottingham Forest
19	1984	Barcelona	3–1	Bayern Munich	Boca Juniors	3–1	Aston Villa
20	1985	Barcelona	3–1	Hamburg	Ajax	4–2	Rapid Vienna
21	1986	Barcelona	1–0	PSV	Tottenham Hotspur	2–1	AC Milan
22	1987	Porto	2–0	Bayern Munich	Barcelona	3–2	Ajax
23	1988	Barcelona	3–1	Steaua Bucharest	Peñarol	3–3 (p)	PSV
24	1989	KV Mechelen	2–0	Sochaux	Barcelona	1–0	Internacional
25	1990	Barcelona	3–1	Anderlecht	PSV	2–1	Spartak Moscow
26	1991	Barcelona	3–0	Marseille	Internacional	2–0	Rapid Vienna
27	1992	Barcelona	2–0	Feyenoord	Club Brugge	3–3 (p)	CSKA Sofia
28	1993	Tenerife	3–1	Barcelona	Bordeaux	2–0	Hajduk Split
29	1994	Valencia	4–1	Barcelona	PSV	2–1	Brescia
30	1995	Barcelona	5–1	San Lorenzo	Feyenoord	3–2	CSKA Sofia
31	1996	Barcelona	2–1	Internazionale	Anderlecht	3–2	San Lorenzo
32	1997	Barcelona	2–2 (p)	Sampdoria
33	1998	Barcelona	2–2 (p)	Santos
34	1999	Barcelona	2–1	Sporting CP
35	2000	Barcelona	2–1	PSV
36	2001	Barcelona	3–2	Parma
37	2002	Barcelona	1–0	Red Star Belgrade
38	2003	Barcelona	1–1 (p)	Boca Juniors
39	2004	Barcelona	2–1	AC Milan
40	2005	Juventus	2–2 (p)	Barcelona
41	2006	Barcelona	4–0	Bayern Munich
42	2007	Barcelona	5–0	Internazionale
43	2008	Barcelona	2–1	Boca Juniors
44[4]	2009	Manchester City	1–0	Barcelona
45[5]	2010	Barcelona	1–1 (p)	AC Milan
46[6]	2011	Barcelona	5–0	Napoli
47[7]	2012	Sampdoria	1–0	Barcelona
48[8]	2013	Barcelona	8–0	Santos
49[9]	2014	Barcelona	6–0	Club León

Titles by club

Team	Titles
Barcelona	37
Köln	2
Újpest	1
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Internacional
Porto
Mechelen
Tenerife
Valencia
Juventus
Manchester City
Sampdoria

Participation by club

Below is the participation by club listed, grouped by country.

References

General

• Lozano Ferrer, Carles et al. (19 February 2010). "Trofeo Joan Gamper (Barcelona-Spain) 1966–2008". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 9 June 2010.  CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link)

Specific

External links

• "Joan Gamper Trophy, Official FC Barcelona Trophy, collection of programmes and other articles about the Trophy". Pins Penyes.