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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 FA Community Shield is contested by the champions of the Premier League and FA Cup

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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  Andorran Supercup
  


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  Argentinian Super Cup
  


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  Armenian Supercup
  


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  Azerbaijan Supercup
  


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  Bahraini Super Cup
  


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  Belarusian Super Cup
  


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  Belgian Supercup
  


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  Brunei Super Cup
  


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  Bulgarian Supercup
  


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  CNCC Charity Cup
  


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  Chilean Supercup
  


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  Chinese FA Super Cup
  


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  Superliga Colombiana
  


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  Supercopa de Costa Rica
  


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  Croatian Supercup
  


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  Cypriot Super Cup
  


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  Djibouti Super Cup
  


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  FA Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield)


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  Egyptian Super Cup
  


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  Estonian SuperCup
  


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  Faroe Islands Super Cup
  


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  Champion versus Champion
  


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  Trophée des Champions
  


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  Georgian Super Cup
  


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  DFL-Supercup
  


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  Honduran Supercup
  


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  Hong Kong Community Cup
  


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  Hungarian Super Cup
  


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  Icelandic Super Cup
  


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  Super Cup
  


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  Indonesian Community Shield
  


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  Iranian Super Cup
  


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  Iraqi Super Cup
  


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  Israel Super Cup
  


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  Supercoppa Italiana
  


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  Japanese Super Cup
  


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  Jordan Super Cup
  


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  Kazakhstan 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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  Kuwait Super Cup
  


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  Kyrgyzstan Super Cup
  


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  Latvian Supercup
  


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  Lebanese Super Cup
  


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  Libyan Super Cup
  


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  Lithuanian Supercup
  


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  Macedonian Super Cup
  


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  Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Cup
  


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  Maldivian FA Charity Shield
  


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  Maltese Super Cup
  


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  Mauritanian Super Cup
  


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  Campeón de Campeones, Supercopa MX
  


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  Moldovan Super Cup
  


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  Mongolia Super Cup
  


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  MFF Charity Cup
  


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  Namibia Super Cup
  


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  Johan Cruyff Shield
  


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  Charity Cup
  


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  Mesterfinalen
  


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  Oman Super Cup
  


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  Gaza Strip Super Cup, West Bank Super Cup
  


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  Polish SuperCup
  


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  Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
  


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  Qatari Sheikh Jassim Cup
  


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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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  Saudi Super Cup
  


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  Senegalese Super Cup
  


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  Singapore Charity Shield
  


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  Slovenian Supercup
  


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  Somalia Super Cup
  


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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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  Syrian Super Cup
  


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  Tahiti Coupe des Champions
  


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  Tajik Supercup
  


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  Thailand Champions Cup (Top league champions vs. FA cup winners) (succeeded Kor Royal Cup in 2017)


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  LFA Super Taça
  


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  Trinidad and Tobago Charity Shield
  


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  Turkish Super Cup
  


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  Northern Cypriot Super Cup
  


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  Turkmenistan Super Cup
  


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  Ukrainian Super Cup
  


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  Arabian Gulf Super Cup
  


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  Supercopa Uruguaya
  


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  Uzbekistan Super Cup
  


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  Vietnamese Super Cup
  


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  Yemeni Super Cup
  

Defunct super cups

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  Austrian Supercup
  


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  Bangladesh Super Cup
  


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  Supercup of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  


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  Brazilian Super Cup
  


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  Czech Supercup
  


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  Danish Supercup
  


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  DFV-Supercup
  


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  Greek Super Cup
  


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  Indian Super Cup
  


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  Top Four Cup
  


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  Superfinalen
  


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  Copa Federación
  


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  Slovak Super Cup
  


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  Korean Super Cup
  


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  Swiss Super Cup
  


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  Supercupen
  


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  Thai Super Cup (Top 4 places in last season, 2009 only)


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  Tunisian Super Cup
  


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  USSR Super Cup
  

Cross-border super cups

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  Czechoslovak Supercup (cup winners)


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  Setanta Sports Cup (league champions, cup winners and best league finishers; defunct)


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  Campeones Cup (league champions)

Continental super cups

Most of the continental football federations also have their own super cups:

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  AFC: Asian Super Cup (defunct)


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  CAF: CAF Super Cup
  


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  CONMEBOL: Recopa Sudamericana
  


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  UEFA: UEFA Super Cup
  

Intercontinental super cups

Most of the continental football confederations have jointly held a competition pitting their champions against each other:

• CONMEBOL & UEFA: Intercontinental Cup
  


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  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 confederations, 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

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  Algeria Basketball Supercup
  


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  Austrian Supercup
  


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  Belgian Supercup
  


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  Dutch Supercup
  


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  French Match des Champions
  


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  German BBL Champions Cup
  


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  Israeli Supercup
  


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  Italian Supercup
  


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  Jordan Basketball supercup
  


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  Polish Supercup
  


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  Portuguese SuperCup
  


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  Romanian Supercup
  


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  Slovenian Supercup
  


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  Spanish Supercup
  


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  Turkish Presidential Cup
  

Regional

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  Adriatic Supercup (former SFR Yugoslavia)

Continental level

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  FIBA Europe SuperCup Women: contested between the winners of EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women.

Other sports

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  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.


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  Porsche Supercup, an international one make racing series for Porsche 911 Carreras