Super cup
A super cup is a competition, usually but not exclusively in association football, which often forms the "curtain-raiser" to a season. It is played by two competition winners of the previous season. On a national level by the knock-out cup winner and the league winner. There are also continental super cups, like the UEFA Super Cup in football, which puts together two UEFA competition winners. Sometimes these are two-legged ties, with a match played at each side's stadium, but increasingly they are one-off fixtures at a neutral venue, such as a national stadium. Some Super Cups have even been staged in venues outside their home country, such as the Italian, French and Turkish games.
Super Cups are generally not considered as important as longer competitions.
If the league champions are also the national cup winners, the winners may play a runner-up in one competition.
Football
National Supercups
The following nations have an active super cup competition:
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Albanian Supercup
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Algerian Super Cup
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Argentinian Super Cup
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Armenian Supercup
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Azerbaijan Supercup
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Super Cup (Bangladesh)
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Belarusian Super Cup
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Belgian Supercup
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Bulgarian Supercup
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Chilean Supercup
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Croatian Supercup
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Czech Supercup
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Egyptian Super Cup
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Cypriot Super Cup
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Estonian SuperCup
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Faroe Islands Super Cup
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Trophée des Champions
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FA Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield)
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DFL-Supercup
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Greek Super Cup
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Hungarian Super Cup
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Indian Super Cup
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Indonesian Community Shield
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Iranian Super Cup
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Supercoppa Italiana
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Japanese Super Cup
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Kenyan Super Cup and the KPL Top 8 Cup (top 8 teams from previous season)
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Lebanese Super Cup
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Libyan SuperCup
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Lithuanian Supercup
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Macedonian Super Cup
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Malaysia Charity Shield
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Mexican Super Cup (Campeón de Campeones)
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Johan Cruijff Schaal
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NIFL Charity Shield
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Polish SuperCup
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Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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President's Cup
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Romanian Super Cup
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Russian Super Cup
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Super Coppa Sammarinese
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Singapore Charity Shield
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Slovak Super Cup
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Slovenian Supercup
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MTN 8 (top 8 teams from previous season)
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Supercopa de España
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Suriname President's Cup
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Supercupen
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Kor Royal Cup (League champions and cup winners), Thai Super Cup (Top 4 places in last season)
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Trinidad and Tobago Charity Shield
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Turkish Super Cup
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Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası
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Ukrainian Super Cup
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Vietnamese Super Cup
In addition, a number of countries have played a national Supercup in the past, but no longer do so:
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Austrian Supercup
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Brazilian Super Cup
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Danish Supercup
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Honduran Super Cup
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Al Muthabara Cup
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Israel Super Cup
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Top Four Cup
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Korean Super Cup
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USSR Super Cup
Continental level
Most of the continental football federations also have their own super cups:
- AFC: Asian Super Cup (defunct)
- CAF: CAF Super Cup
- CONMEBOL: Recopa Sudamericana
- UEFA: UEFA Super Cup
- CIS: Super Cup of Champions (defunct)
Basketball
National Supercups
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Austrian Supercup
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Belgian Supercup
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Dutch Supercup
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German BBL Champions Cup
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Italian Supercup
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Portuguese SuperCup
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Slovenian Supercup
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Spanish Supercup
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Turkish President's Cup
Continental level
- FIBA Europe SuperCup Women: contested between the winners of EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women.
Other sports
- IIHF Super Cup, a defunct ice hockey competition.
- The 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.
- The ADAC Supercup, commonly known as Supercup; a German sportscar racing series held between 1985 to 1989.
- Porsche Supercup, an international one make racing series for Porsche 911 Carreras
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