Supercoppa Italiana

Summary

The Supercoppa Italiana (English: Italian Super Cup) is an annual super cup tournament in Italian football.

Supercoppa Italiana
Organising bodyLega Serie A
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988)
RegionItaly
Number of teams2 (until 2022)
4 (2023–present)
Current championsInternazionale (8th title)
Most successful club(s)Juventus (9 titles)
Television broadcastersMediaset
List of international broadcasters
Websitelegaseriea.it
2023 Supercoppa Italiana

Founded in 1988 as a two-team competition, it has featured four teams from the 2023 edition onwards: the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia. Up until 2023, it was a match contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season. If the same team won both the Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in the previous season, the Supercoppa was contested by the Serie A winner and the Coppa Italia runner-up, in essence becoming a rematch of the previous year's Coppa Italia final.

Originally, it was scheduled in the summer as a curtain-raiser to the new season, played at the home stadium of the Serie A champions. Since 2018, the competition has been scheduled during the winter months and takes place mainly outside Italy. Juventus is the most successful club with nine titles. The most frequent Supercoppa match-up has been Juventus against Lazio, occurring on five occasions.

History edit

Inaugurated in 1988, 18 of the first 21 Supercoppa Italiana contested were played at the home of the Serie A winners, the exceptions being in 1993 and 2003, when it was held in the United States cities of Washington, D.C., and East Rutherford, New Jersey, and in 2002 when the game was played in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Since 2009, nine of the fourteen venues chosen have been outside of Italy.

Of the 36 finals played to date, the venues have been as follows:

  • Twenty times at the home of the Serie A winners;
  • Four times in China and Saudi Arabia;
  • Twice in the United States;
  • Twice in Doha, Qatar;
  • Twice at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome as Coppa Italia finalist's home ground under agreement between the contestants;
  • Once in Tripoli, Libya;
  • Once at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore in Reggio Emilia acting as a "neutral venue" (where it was not the home ground of the Serie A winners).

Since the game was first established, the Serie A scudetto and Coppa Italia have been won by the same team eight times, thus making the Coppa Italia runners-up the second participant in the subsequent Supercoppa. This occurred in the following years: 1995, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 (Juventus), 2000 (Lazio), 2006 and 2010 (Internazionale).

On 23 December 2016, Milan became the first Coppa Italia runners-up to win the Supercoppa Italiana, after defeating Juventus on penalties.[1]

In 2018, Serie A signed a deal with the General Sports Authority that would see Saudi Arabia host three of the next five Supercoppa Italiana.[2]

On 13 March 2023, Lega Serie A approved a new format for the Supercoppa Italiana, starting with the 2023 edition. It is played as a four-team tournament, contested by the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia.[3]

List of matches edit

Key
Supercoppa winners

Two-team format edit

List of Supercoppa Italiana matches
Year Serie A winners Result Coppa representatives Stadium Attendance
1988 Milan 3–1 Sampdoria San Siro, Milan 19,412
1989 Internazionale 2–0 Sampdoria San Siro, Milan 7,221
1990 Napoli 5–1 Juventus Stadio San Paolo, Naples 62,404
1991 Sampdoria 1–0 Roma Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa 21,120
1992 Milan 2–1 Parma San Siro, Milan 30,102
1993 Milan 1–0 Torino Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C., United States 25,268
1994 Milan 1–1 (4–3 p) Sampdoria San Siro, Milan 26,767
1995 Juventus 1–0 Parma[a] Stadio delle Alpi, Turin 5,289
1996 Milan 1–2 Fiorentina San Siro, Milan 29,582
1997 Juventus 3–0 Vicenza Stadio delle Alpi, Turin 16,157
1998 Juventus 1–2 Lazio Stadio delle Alpi, Turin 16,500
1999 Milan 1–2 Parma San Siro, Milan 25,001
2000 Lazio 4–3 Internazionale[a] Stadio Olimpico, Rome 61,446
2001 Roma 3–0 Fiorentina Stadio Olimpico, Rome 61,050
2002 Juventus 2–1 Parma 11 June Stadium, Tripoli, Libya 40,000
2003 Juventus 1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–3 p) Milan Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States 54,128
2004 Milan 3–0 Lazio San Siro, Milan 33,274
2005 Juventus[b] 0–1 (a.e.t.) Internazionale Stadio delle Alpi, Turin 35,246
2006 Internazionale 4–3 (a.e.t.) Roma[a] San Siro, Milan 45,528
2007 Internazionale 0–1 Roma San Siro, Milan 34,898
2008 Internazionale 2–2 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p) Roma San Siro, Milan 43,400
2009 Internazionale 1–2 Lazio Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, China 68,961
2010 Internazionale 3–1 Roma[a] San Siro, Milan 65,860
2011 Milan 2–1 Internazionale Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, China 66,161
2012 Juventus 4–2 (a.e.t.) Napoli Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, China 75,000
2013 Juventus 4–0 Lazio Stadio Olimpico, Rome 57,000
2014 Juventus 2–2 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p) Napoli Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar 14,000
2015 Juventus 2–0 Lazio[a] Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, China 20,000
2016 Juventus 1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p) Milan[a] Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar 11,356
2017 Juventus 2–3 Lazio[a] Stadio Olimpico, Rome 52,000
2018 Juventus 1–0 Milan[a] King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 61,235
2019 Juventus 1–3 Lazio KSU Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 23,361
2020 Juventus 2–0 Napoli Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia 0[note 1]
2021 Internazionale 2–1 (a.e.t.) Juventus San Siro, Milan 29,696[note 2]
2022 Milan 0–3 Internazionale King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 51,357

Four-team format edit

List of Supercoppa Italiana matches
Year Winners Result Runners-up Semi-finalists Stadium Attendance[c]
2023 Internazionale 1–0 Napoli Fiorentina and Lazio KSU Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 24,900
Notes
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Qualified as Coppa Italia runners-up.
  2. ^ Juventus was subsequently stripped of the title due to the Calciopoli scandal.
  3. ^ Final match attendance only.

Performance by club edit

 
The Supercoppa Italiana won by Milan in 2016.
Club Winners Runners-up Semi-finalists Years won Years runner-up Years semi-finalist
Juventus
9
8
1995, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2020 1990, 1998, 2005, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021
Internazionale
8
4
1989, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2021, 2022, 2023 2000, 2007, 2009, 2011
Milan
7
5
1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2011, 2016 1996, 1999, 2003, 2018, 2022
Lazio
5
3
1
1998, 2000, 2009, 2017, 2019 2004, 2013, 2015 2023
Roma
2
4
2001, 2007 1991, 2006, 2008, 2010
Napoli
2
3
1990, 2014 2012, 2020, 2023
Sampdoria
1
3
1991 1988, 1989, 1994
Parma
1
3
1999 1992, 1995, 2002
Fiorentina
1
1
1
1996 2001 2023
Torino
0
1
1993
Vicenza
0
1
1997

Performance by representative edit

Method of qualification Winners Runners-up
Serie A winners
24
12
Coppa Italia winners
10
18
Coppa Italia runners-up
2
6

All-time top goalscorers edit

As of 22 January 2024[4]
Rank Player Club(s) Goals Apps
1   Paulo Dybala Juventus 4 6
2   Alessandro Del Piero Juventus 3 6
  Samuel Eto'o Internazionale 3 3
  Lautaro Martínez Internazionale 3 4
  Andriy Shevchenko Milan 3 3
  Carlos Tevez Juventus 3 2

Notes edit

  1. ^ The match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
  2. ^ The total attendance available was established at 50% due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

References edit

  1. ^ "Milan win Supercoppa Italiana in shootout triumph over Juventus". The Guardian. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Saudi Arabia set to host three of next five Italian Super Cups". ESPN. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Lega Serie A agree new format for Supercoppa from 2024". football-italia.net. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  4. ^ "All-time top goalscorers". WorldFootball.net.

External links edit

  • Supercoppa Italiana on RSSSF