Super Cup
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A Super Cup is a fixture, usually but not exclusively in football, which often forms the curtain-raiser to a season. Most Super Cups are one-off fixtures between the League Champions and major Cup Winners of the previous season. Sometimes these are two-legged afairs, with a match played at each side's stadium, but increasingly they are one-off fixtures at a neutral venue. The name Super Cup suggests that the match ultimately decides the best team in the nation, but the League Champions are still considered Champions, regardless of who wins the Super Cup. Super Cups are not considered as important, more as prestige matches.
In football, most nations have a super cup:
- Image:Flag of Albania.svg Albanian Supercup
- Image:Flag of Austria.svg Austrian Supercup
- Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgian Supercup
- Image:Flag of Bulgaria (bordered).svg Bulgarian Supercup
- Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatian Supercup
- Image:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus FA Shield
- Image:Flag of France.svg Trophée Des Champions
- Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg FA Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield)
- Image:Flag of Germany.svg German Supercup (In 1997, this was superseded by a league cup called DFB Ligapokal.)
- Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greek Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg Football Association of Ireland Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italian Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg Japanese Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuanian Supercup
- Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Johan Cruijff-schaal
- Image:Flag of Poland (bordered).svg Polish SuperCup
- Image:Flag of Portugal.svg SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira
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Romanian Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Russian Super Cup
- Image:Flag of San Marino.svg San Marino Federal Trophy
- Image:Flag of South Korea (bordered).svg Korean Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spanish Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukrainian Super Cup
- Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR Super Cup
- Image:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnamese Super Cup
Most of the continental football federations also have their own super cups:
- UEFA: European Super Cup
- AFC: Asian Super Cup,
- CAF: CAF Super Cup
- CONMEBOL: Recopa Sudamericana
- (From 1988 to 1997 there was a competition called the Supercopa Sudamericana. However, this took a different form to most Super Cups, featuring past winners of the Copa Libertadores.)
[edit] Other Sports
- 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.de:Supercup
