Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup

Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup
SportRoller Hockey
Founded1983
ContinentInternational (World Skate)
Most recent
champion(s)		Spain FC Barcelona
(7th title)
Most titlesSpain FC Barcelona
(7 titles)

The Intercontinental Cup is a roller hockey competition organized by World Skate and usually contested between the World Skate Europe and the World Skate America champions clubs.

History

The Intercontinental Cup was established in 1985 and was organized by FIRS.

In 2006, the then-CIRH (Comité Internationale de Rink-Hockey) tried to establish a World Club Championship, but that competition was quickly discontinued in favor of the Intercontinental Cup.

In 2017, the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) merged with the International Skateboarding Federation (ISF) to form World Skate, which organized the 2017 Intercontinental Cup played in a Final Four format by the 2016 and 2017 CERH European League champions, Benfica and Reus, and the 2016 and 2017 CSP South American Club Championship/CPP Pan-American Club Championship winners, Andes Talleres and Concepción, with Benfica facing Andes Talleres and Reus facing Concepción.

In 2018, the World Skate created the women's tournament, played in a Final Four formats by the four finalists of Europe and America.

In 2021, the Intercontinental Cup was disputed by the European champions Sporting and the runners-up FC Porto on a two-legged tie.

For the 2022 edition, FIRS struggled to find hosts to organize the edition. Valongo was the only team that offered to host the competition. FIRS could not get positive answers from South American teams and 2022 was disputed on 17 June 2023 in a single match between 2022 European League finalists.[1][2][3]

Winners

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  Unofficial edition
2007 trophy
Year Location Winner Score Runners-up
1983 Brazil Sertãozinho Spain FC Barcelona group[6] Portugal Porto
1985 Brazil Sertãozinho Brazil Sertãozinho HC group[7] Brazil Internacional Santos
1985 Argentina Rawson, San Juan Argentina UVT 5–3, 5–4 Spain FC Barcelona
1987 Spain A Coruña Spain HC Liceo 7–3, 17–2 Argentina Concepción PC
1989 Spain A Coruña Spain HC Liceo 11–4, 8–2 Argentina CD Unión Estudiantil
1992 Brazil Sertãozinho Portugal OC Barcelos 2–1, 7–3 Brazil Sertãozinho HC
1993 Spain A Coruña Spain HC Liceo 7–5, 11–3 Argentina CD Unión Estudiantil
1998 Spain Barcelona Spain FC Barcelona 13–1 Argentina UVT
2004 Spain Santiago de Compostela Spain HC Liceo 9–1, 10–2 Argentina CD Unión Estudiantil
2006 Spain Alcoy Spain FC Barcelona 8–3 Argentina Olimpia PC
2007 Italy Follonica Italy Follonica Hockey 4–2 Argentina Concepción PC
2008 Spain Molins de Rei Spain FC Barcelona 3–1 Argentina Concepción PC
2010 Spain Reus Spain Reus Deportiu 4–1 Argentina Club Petroleros YPF
2012 Spain A Coruña Spain HC Liceo 6–4 Argentina CA Huracán
2013 Portugal Torres Novas Portugal SL Benfica 10–3 Brazil SC Recife
2014 Spain Barcelona Spain FC Barcelona 6–2 Argentina Club Petroleros YPF
2016 Spain Vic Spain CP Vic 5–1[8] Argentina CA Huracán
2017 Spain Reus Portugal SL Benfica 5–3 Spain Reus Deportiu
2018 Argentina San Juan Spain FC Barcelona 5–4 Portugal Porto
2021 Portugal Porto, Lisbon Portugal Porto 6–3, 5–6 Portugal Sporting
2022 Portugal Valongo Italy GSH Trissino 3–3 (3–1 (p)) Portugal AD Valongo
2023 Argentina San Juan Spain FC Barcelona 6–3 Portugal Porto

Statistics

Winners by team

Team Winners Runners-up
Spain FC Barcelona 7 (1983, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2018, 2023) 1 (1985)
Spain HC Liceo 5 (1987, 1989, 1993, 2004, 2012) 0
Portugal Benfica 2 (2013, 2017) 0
Portugal Porto 1 (2021) 3 (1983, 2018, 2023)
Argentina UVT 1 (1986) 1 (1998)
Spain Reus Deportiu 1 (2010) 1 (2017)
Portugal OC Barcelos 1 (1992) 0
Italy Follonica Hockey 1 (2007) 0
Spain CP Vic 1 (2016) 0
Italy GSH Trissino 1 (2022) 0
Argentina Concepción PC 0 3 (1987, 2007, 2008)
Argentina CD Unión Estudiantil 0 3 (1989, 1993, 2004)
Argentina Club Petroleros YPF 0 2 (2010, 2014)
Argentina CA Huracán 0 2 (2012, 2016)
Portugal Sporting 0 1 (2021)
Brazil Sertãozinho HC 0 1 (1992)
Argentina Olimpia PC 0 1 (2006)
Brazil SC Recife 0 1 (2013)
Portugal AD Valongo 0 1 (2022)

Winners by country

Country Winners Runners-up
Spain Spain 14 2
Portugal Portugal 4 5
Italy Italy 2 0
Argentina Argentina 1 12
Brazil Brazil 0 2

References

  1. ^ a b "Trissino e Valongo disputam Intercontinental só para europeus" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  2. ^ "A Intercontinental, segundo Paniagua" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  3. ^ "Em San Siro, a Intercontinental é italiana!" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  4. ^ "Copa Intercontinental: 10 Datos Que Usted Debe Conocer".
  5. ^ "2017 Rink Hockey Intercontinental Cup: SL Benfica won in Reus". 18 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Intercontinental Cup 1983" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  7. ^ "II Mundialito de Clubes, Sertãozinho, 2-10.02.1985" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  8. ^ "CERS-RH não reconhece Intercontinental".