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 typically contested on a national level by two competition winners of the previous season: 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 winners of the top- and second-tier UEFA competitions. 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, Mexican and Turkish games.
If the league champions are also the national cup winners, they may play the runners-up from one of the competitions.
Football
National super cups
The following nations have an active super cup competition:
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Defunct super cups
Cross-border super cups
Continental super cups
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
Intercontinental super cups
Most of the continental football federations have jointly held a competition pitting their champions against each other:
- CONMEBOL & UEFA: Intercontinental Cup
- CONCACAF & CONMEBOL: Copa Interamericana
- AFC & CAF: Afro-Asian Club Championship
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 federations, plus the champion of the host country.
A similar tournament is held at international level, the FIFA Confederations Cup. It is held on a quadrennial basis, the year before a World Cup in its host country, and features the six continental champions, the World Cup winners and the host.
Basketball
National Supercups
Regional
- Adriatic Supercup (former SFR Yugoslavia)
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 and 1989.
- Porsche Supercup, an international one make racing series for Porsche 911 Carreras