List of world champion football clubs

Trophy of the FIFA Club World Cup

This list includes the official (de jure) world champion football clubs recognized by FIFA. The official competitions that grant this world title are the Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004), FIFA Intercontinental Cup (2024-present) and the FIFA Club World Cup (2000, 2005–present)

Competitions

Intercontinental Cup

The Intercontinental Cup, also known as European/South American Cup, was an official international football competition endorsed by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL),[1][2][3] contested between representative clubs from these confederations, usually the winners of the European Champions' Cup (now known as the UEFA Champions League), and the South American Copa Libertadores. The competition was played by representative clubs of most developed continents in the football world; has since been replaced by the FIFA Club World Cup. All editions were official UEFA and CONMEBOL competitions,[4][5] and indirectly also of FIFA.[6][7][8][9]

Sign at Arena do Grêmio saying "Grêmio - Campeão do Mundo" (Grêmio - World Champion), celebrating Grêmio's 1983 Intercontinental Cup as a world championship.

From its formation in 1960 to 1979, the competition was contested over a two-legged tie, with a playoff if necessary until 1968, and penalty kicks later. During the 1970s, European participation in the Intercontinental Cup became a running question due to controversial events in the 1969 final,[10] and some European Champions Club' winner teams withdrew.[11] From 1980 until 2004, the competition was contested over a single match held in Japan and sponsored by multinational automaker Toyota, which offered a secondary trophy (that flanked the original), the Toyota Cup.[12]

Throughout the history of football, various attempts have been made to organise a tournament that identifies "the best club team in the world" – such as the Football World Championship, the Lipton Trophy, the Pequeña Copa del Mundo - due to FIFA's lack of interest or inability to organise club competitions.[13] The closest thing that happened was the 1957 Tournoi de Paris, which brought together the only continental champions of the time and which served as inspiration for the Intercontinental Cup. The Intercontinental Cup is considered by FIFA as the official predecessor[14][6] to the FIFA Club World Cup, which was held for the first time in 2000.[15]

All the winning teams were regarded by worldwide mass media and the football community, FIFA included (as News Center productions and not cataloged on the FIFA website as official entity documents),[16] as "world champions" de facto.[17][18][19][20] On 27 October 2017, the FIFA Council, while not promoting statistical unification between the Intercontinental Cup and the Club World Cup, in respect to the history of the two tournaments[21] (which merged in 2005),[22] has officialised (de jure) the title of the Intercontinental Cup, recognising all the winners as official club world champions,[23][24][25][26] with the same title of the FIFA Club World Cup winners, or "FIFA Club World Champions".[27][24][28][29][30][31][32][33]

FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA Club World Cup is an international men's association football competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament officially assigns the world title.[34] The competition was first contested in 2000 as the FIFA Club World Championship. It was not held between 2001 and 2004 due to a combination of factors, most importantly the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner International Sport and Leisure.[35] Since 2005, the competition has been held every year, and has been hosted by Brazil, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco. The FIFA Club World Cup's prestige is perceived quite differently in different parts of the football world; while it is widely regarded as the most distinguished club-level trophy in South America,[36][37] it struggles to attract interest in most of Europe compared to the UEFA Champions League and commonly lacks recognition as a high-ranking contest.[38][39]

The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in 2000. but the failure of ISL caused FIFA to discontinue the tournament and cancel the following year competition to be held in Spain. This first failed installment ran parallel with the Intercontinental Cup (also known as European/South American Cup), a competition organized jointly by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) first disputed in 1960 by the winners of the European Champions Cup and the Copa Libertadores. FIFA finally managed to buy the prestigious Japanese Event and in 2005, after the Intercontinental Cup's last edition, that competition was merged with FIFA. The failed FIFA Club World Cup's first edition was renamed as "FIFA Club World Championship" and a new Trophy replaced the Intercontinental Cup Trophy as well as the Toyota Cup. In 2006, the tournament took its current name.

The current format of the tournament involves seven teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation over a period of about two weeks; the winners of that year's AFC Champions League (Asia), CAF Champions League (Africa), CONCACAF Champions League (North America), Copa Libertadores (South America), OFC Champions League (Oceania) and UEFA Champions League (Europe), along with the host nation's national champions, participate in a straight knock-out tournament. The host nation's national champions dispute a play-off against the Oceania champions, from which the winner joins the champions of Asia, Africa, and North America at the quarter-finals. The quarter-final winners go on to face the European and South American champions, who enter the semi-final stage, for a place in the final. In Europe the tournament is almost ignored by the mass media, also because of its sporting level, considered inferior to the Intercontinental Cup,[40] indeed when the sides used to meet in a one-off game in Japan (and even before), this was still a fair fight. The opening up of the global market in football has changed the balance. These days the best South Americans (and the stars from all the other continents) are usually playing in Europe.[41][42]

Results by year

Intercontinental Cup

Year Country Winners Score Runners-up Country Venue Location Refs
1960  ESP Real Madrid 0–0 Peñarol  URU Estadio Centenario Montevideo, Uruguay [43]
5–1 Santiago Bernabéu Madrid, Spain
1961  URU Peñarol 0–1 Benfica  POR Estádio da Luz Lisbon, Portugal [44]
5–0 Estadio Centenario Montevideo, Uruguay
‡2–1‡ Montevideo, Uruguay
1962  BRA Santos 3–2 Benfica  POR Estádio do Maracanã Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [45]
5–2 Estádio da Luz Lisbon, Portugal
1963  BRA Santos 2–4 Milan  ITA San Siro Milan, Italy [46]
4–2 Estádio do Maracanã Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
‡1–0‡
1964  ITA Internazionale 0–1 Independiente  ARG La Doble Visera Avellaneda, Argentina [47]
2–0 San Siro Milan, Italy
‡1–0 (a.e.t.)‡ Santiago Bernabéu Madrid, Spain
1965  ITA Internazionale 3–0 Independiente  ARG San Siro Milan, Italy [48]
0–0 La Doble Visera Avellaneda, Argentina
1966  URU Peñarol 2–0 Real Madrid  ESP Estadio Centenario Montevideo, Uruguay [49]
2–0 Santiago Bernabéu Madrid, Spain
1967  ARG Racing 0–1 Celtic  SCO Hampden Park Glasgow, Scotland [50]
2–1 El Cilindro Avellaneda, Argentina
‡1–0‡ Estadio Centenario Montevideo, Uruguay
1968  ARG Estudiantes 1–0 Manchester United  ENG Estadio Boca Juniors Buenos Aires, Argentina [51]
1–1 Old Trafford Manchester, England
1969  ITA Milan 3–0 Estudiantes  ARG San Siro Milan, Italy [52]
1–2 Estadio Boca Juniors Buenos Aires, Argentina
1970  NED Feyenoord 2–2 Estudiantes  ARG Estadio Boca Juniors Buenos Aires, Argentina [53]
1–0 De Kuip Rotterdam, Netherlands
1971  URU Nacional 1–1 Panathinaikos#1  GRE Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus, Greece [54]
2–1 Estadio Centenario Montevideo, Uruguay
1972  NED Ajax 1–1 Independiente  ARG La Doble Visera Avellaneda, Argentina [55]
3–0 Olympic Stadium Amsterdam, Netherlands
1973  ARG Independiente 1–0 Juventus#2  ITA Stadio Olimpico Rome, Italy [56]
Second leg was not played. Argentina Independiente declared winner.
1974  ESP Atlético Madrid#3 0–1 Independiente  ARG La Doble Visera Avellaneda, Argentina [57]
2–0 Estadio Vicente Calderón Madrid, Spain
1975 Germany Bayern Munich and Argentina Independiente did not find compatible schedule to play. [58]
1976  FRG Bayern Munich 2–0 Cruzeiro  BRA Olympiastadion Munich, West Germany [59]
0–0 Mineirão Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1977  ARG Boca Juniors 2–2 Borussia Mönchengladbach#4  FRG Estadio Boca Juniors Buenos Aires, Argentina [60]
3–0 Wildparkstadion Karlsruhe, West Germany
1978 England Liverpool declined to play the match against Argentina Boca Juniors due to scheduling problems. [58]
1979  PAR Olimpia 1–0 Malmö FF#5  SWE Malmö Stadion Malmö, Sweden [61]
2–1 Defensores del Chaco Asunción, Paraguay
1980  URU Nacional 1–0 Nottingham Forest  ENG National Stadium Tokyo, Japan [62]
1981  BRA Flamengo 3–0 Liverpool [63]
1982  URU Peñarol 2–0 Aston Villa [64]
1983  BRA Grêmio 2–1 (a.e.t.) Hamburger SV  FRG [65]
1984  ARG Independiente 1–0 Liverpool  ENG [66]
1985  ITA Juventus 2–2 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p) Argentinos Juniors  ARG [67]
1986  ARG River Plate 1–0 Steaua București  ROU [68]
1987  POR Porto 2–1 (a.e.t.) Peñarol  URU [69]
1988  URU Nacional 2–2 (a.e.t.) (7–6 p) PSV Eindhoven  NED [70]
1989  ITA Milan 1–0 (a.e.t.) Atlético Nacional  COL [71]
1990  ITA Milan 3–0 Olimpia  PAR [72]
1991  YUG Red Star Belgrade 3–0 Colo-Colo  CHI [73]
1992  BRA São Paulo 2–1 Barcelona  ESP [74]
1993  BRA São Paulo 3–2 Milan#6  ITA [75]
1994  ARG Vélez Sársfield 2–0 Milan [76]
1995  NED Ajax 0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p) Grêmio  BRA [77]
1996  ITA Juventus 1–0 River Plate  ARG [78]
1997  GER Borussia Dortmund 2–0 Cruzeiro  BRA [79]
1998  ESP Real Madrid 2–1 Vasco da Gama [80]
1999  ENG Manchester United 1–0 Palmeiras [81]
2000  ARG Boca Juniors 2–1 Real Madrid  ESP [82]
2001  GER Bayern Munich 1–0 (a.e.t.) Boca Juniors  ARG [83]
2002  ESP Real Madrid 2–0 Olimpia  PAR International Stadium Yokohama, Japan [84]
2003  ARG Boca Juniors 1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p) Milan  ITA [85]
2004  POR Porto 0–0 (a.e.t.) (8–7 p) Once Caldas  COL [86]

Notes

FIFA Club World Cup

Annual tournament

Key to the table
† Match was won after extra time
‡ Match was won via a penalty shoot-out
Edition Season Hosts Champions Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Ref.
1 2000  Brazil Brazil Corinthians[a] 0–0‡ Brazil Vasco da Gama Mexico Necaxa[b] 1–1‡ Spain Real Madrid [91][92]
2 2005  Japan Brazil São Paulo 1–0 England Liverpool Costa Rica Saprissa 3–2 Saudi Arabia Al Ittihad [93][94]
3 2006 Brazil Internacional 1–0 Spain Barcelona Egypt Al Ahly 2–1 Mexico América [95][96]
4 2007 Italy Milan 4–2 Argentina Boca Juniors Japan Urawa Red Diamonds[c] 2–2‡ Tunisia Étoile du Sahel [98][99]
5 2008 England Manchester United 1–0 Ecuador LDU Quito Japan Gamba Osaka 1–0 Mexico Pachuca [100][101]
6 2009  United Arab Emirates Spain Barcelona[d] 2–1† Argentina Estudiantes South Korea Pohang Steelers[e] 1–1‡ Mexico Atlante [104][105]
7 2010 Italy Internazionale 3–0 Democratic Republic of the Congo TP Mazembe Brazil Internacional 4–2 South Korea Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma [106][107]
8 2011  Japan Spain Barcelona 4–0 Brazil Santos Qatar Al Sadd[f] 0–0‡ Japan Kashiwa Reysol [109][110]
9 2012 Brazil Corinthians 1–0 England Chelsea Mexico Monterrey 2–0 Egypt Al Ahly [111][112]
10 2013  Morocco Germany Bayern Munich 2–0 Morocco Raja Casablanca Brazil Atlético Mineiro 3–2 China Guangzhou Evergrande [113][114]
11 2014 Spain Real Madrid 2–0 Argentina San Lorenzo New Zealand Auckland City[g] 1–1‡ Mexico Cruz Azul [116][117]
12 2015  Japan Spain Barcelona 3–0 Argentina River Plate Japan Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2–1 China Guangzhou Evergrande [118][119]
13 2016 Spain Real Madrid[h] 4–2† Japan Kashima Antlers Colombia Atlético Nacional[i] 2–2‡ Mexico América [122][123]
14 2017  United Arab Emirates Spain Real Madrid 1–0 Brazil Grêmio Mexico Pachuca 4–1 United Arab Emirates Al Jazira [124]
15 2018 Spain Real Madrid 4–1 United Arab Emirates Al Ain Argentina River Plate 4–0 Japan Kashima Antlers [125]
16 2019  Qatar England Liverpool[j] 1–0† Brazil Flamengo Mexico Monterrey[k] 2–2‡ Saudi Arabia Al Hilal [126]
17 2020 Germany Bayern Munich 1–0 Mexico UANL Egypt Al Ahly[l] 0–0‡ Brazil Palmeiras [126]
18 2021  United Arab Emirates England Chelsea[m] 2–1† Brazil Palmeiras Egypt Al Ahly 4–0 Saudi Arabia Al Hilal [127]
19 2022  Morocco Spain Real Madrid 5–3 Saudi Arabia Al Hilal Brazil Flamengo 4–2 Egypt Al Ahly [128]
20 2023  Saudi Arabia England Manchester City 4–0 Brazil Fluminense Egypt Al Ahly 4–2 Japan Urawa Red Diamonds [129]

4-years tournament

Edition Season Hosts Champions Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Ref.
21 2025  United States [130]

FIFA Intercontinental Cup

Key to the table
† Match was won after extra time
‡ Match was won via a penalty shoot-out
Edition Season Hosts Champions Score Runners-up Venue Location Ref.
1 2024  Qatar [131]

Winners

By club

In synthesis FIFA has two types of world champions Intercontinental Cup and those deriving from the Club World Cup (the two competitions, albeit different, confer the same title, that of FIFA club world champions)[132][133][134] so in accordance to what is officially communicated by FIFA, the total count of official[135][6][136][133] world titles is as follows:[137][138][139][140][141][142][134][132]

Key
IC Intercontinental Cup
CWC FIFA Club World Cup
List of world champion football clubs
Club Country IC CWC Total Years won
Real Madrid  Spain 3 5 8 1960, 1998, 2002, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
Milan  Italy 3 1 4 1969, 1989, 1990, 2007
Bayern Munich  Germany 2 2 4 1976, 2001, 2013, 2020
Peñarol  Uruguay 3 0 3 1961, 1966, 1982
Nacional  Uruguay 3 0 3 1971, 1980, 1988
Boca Juniors  Argentina 3 0 3 1977, 2000 (IC), 2003
São Paulo  Brazil 2 1 3 1992, 1993, 2005
Internazionale  Italy 2 1 3 1964, 1965, 2010
Barcelona  Spain 0 3 3 2009, 2011, 2015
Santos  Brazil 2 0 2 1962, 1963
Independiente  Argentina 2 0 2 1973, 1984
Ajax  Netherlands 2 0 2 1972, 1995
Juventus  Italy 2 0 2 1985, 1996
Porto  Portugal 2 0 2 1987, 2004
Manchester United  England 1 1 2 1999, 2008
Corinthians  Brazil 0 2 2 2000 (CWC), 2012
Racing  Argentina 1 0 1 1967
Estudiantes  Argentina 1 0 1 1968
Feyenoord  Netherlands 1 0 1 1970
Atlético Madrid  Spain 1 0 1 1974
Olimpia  Paraguay 1 0 1 1979
Flamengo  Brazil 1 0 1 1981
Grêmio  Brazil 1 0 1 1983
River Plate  Argentina 1 0 1 1986
Red Star Belgrade  Yugoslavia 1 0 1 1991
Vélez Sarsfield  Argentina 1 0 1 1994
Borussia Dortmund  Germany 1 0 1 1997
Internacional  Brazil 0 1 1 2006
Liverpool  England 0 1 1 2019
Chelsea  England 0 1 1 2021
Manchester City  England 0 1 1 2023

By country

Country IC CWC Total
 Spain 4 8 12
 Brazil 6 4 10
 Argentina 9 0 9
 Italy 7 2 9
 Uruguay 6 0 6
 Germany 3 2 5
 England 1 4 5
 Netherlands 3 0 3
 Portugal 2 0 2
 Paraguay 1 0 1
 Serbia 1 0 1

By confederation

Confederation IC CWC Total
UEFA 21 16 37
CONMEBOL 22 4 26

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Score was 0–0 after 120 minutes. Corinthians won 4–3 on penalties.[89]
  2. ^ Extra time was played in the third-place match. Necaxa won 4–3 on penalties.[90]
  3. ^ No extra time was played in the third-place match. Urawa Red Diamonds won 4–2 on penalties.[97]
  4. ^ Score was 1–1 after 90 minutes.[102]
  5. ^ No extra time was played in the third-place match. Pohang Steelers won 4–3 on penalties.[103]
  6. ^ No extra time was played in the third-place match. Al Sadd won 5–3 on penalties.[108]
  7. ^ No extra time was played in the third-place match. Auckland City won 4–2 on penalties.[115]
  8. ^ Score was 2–2 after 90 minutes.[120]
  9. ^ No extra time was played in the third-place match. Atlético Nacional won 4–3 on penalties.[121]
  10. ^ Score was 0–0 after 90 minutes.
  11. ^ No extra time was played in the third-place match. Monterrey won 4–3 on penalties.
  12. ^ No extra time was played in the third-place match. Al Ahly won 3–2 on penalties.
  13. ^ Score was 1–1 after 90 minutes.

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