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The European/South American Cup, commonly called the Intercontinental Cup or Toyota Cup, was a football competition by UEFA and CONMEBOL. The competition was between the winners of the European Champions League and the South American Copa Libertadores in a match played each year.

The Cup was called the World Club Championship until the first FIFA Club World Cup was held in 2000. It was played by representatives clubs of most developed continents in the football world.

From 2005, the Intercontinental Cup was replaced by the FIFA Club World Cup. The FIFA Club World Cup also includes North American, Asian, African and Oceanian winners. In 2017 FIFA officially recognized all of them as club world champions (de jure) with the same status to the FIFA Club World Cup winners or official world champions FIFA. In synthesis FIFA has two types of world champions, those deriving from the Intercontinental Cup and those deriving from the Club World Cup, the two competitions confer the same title.The football experts agree that the intercontinental cup is the most fascinating football competition ever existed thanks to the great balance in the field given by the lower economic gap of the time and rules on foreign players who gradually favored the European teams and weakened the South American teams; also the statistics confirm this.

List Champions

See also: Clubs of football world champions

Year Winner
1960 Spain Real Madrid
1961 Uruguay Peñarol
1962 Brazil Santos
1963 Brazil Santos
1964 Italy Internazionale
1965 Italy Internazionale
1966 Uruguay Peñarol
1967 Argentina Racing Club
1968 Argentina Estudiantes
1969 Italy Milan
1970 Netherlands Feyenoord
1971 Uruguay Nacional
1972 Netherlands Ajax
1973 Argentina Independiente
1974 Spain Atlético Madrid
 
Year Winner
1975 Not held
1976 Germany Bayern München
1977 Argentina Boca Juniors
1978 Not held
1979 Paraguay Olimpia Asunción
1980 Uruguay Nacional
1981 Brazil Flamengo
1982 Uruguay Peñarol
1983 Brazil Grêmio
1984 Argentina Independiente
1985 Italy Juventus
1986 Argentina River Plate
1987 Portugal Porto
1988 Uruguay Nacional
1989 Italy Milan
 
Year Winner
1990 Italy Milan
1991 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrado
1992 Brazil São Paulo
1993 Brazil São Paulo
1994 Argentina Vélez Sarsfield
1995 Netherlands Ajax
1996 Italy Juventus
1997 Germany Borussia Dortmund
1998 Spain Real Madrid
1999 England Manchester United
2000 Argentina Boca Juniors
2001 Germany Bayern München
2002 Spain Real Madrid
2003 Argentina Boca Juniors
2004 Portugal Porto

Since 2005: FIFA Club World Cup

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