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[1][2] 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.[3][4][5] 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;[6][7] also the statistics confirm this.[8]
Pelé is the all-time top goalscorer in Intercontinental Cup's history with 7 goals in 3 matches
Pelé is the all-time top scorer in the competition. He scored seven goals in three matches.
In 1962, he scored five goals in two matches against Benfica. This included a hat-trick (three goals) in the second match played in Lisbon (the only hat trick in competition's history).[11]
Amorim, Luís (1 December 2005). Intercontinental Cup 1960-2004. LuísAmorimEditions. ISBN978-989-95672-5-2.
Amorim, Luís (1 September 2005). Taça Intercontinental 1960-2004. Multinova. ISBN989-551-040-3.
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↑"Official (plural officials), from the Latin officiālis.1. The official word is also used to refer to what is recognized or derives from an authority. cfr. dictionary.com. "Official, definition". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) 2. Approved by the government or someone in power. cfr. dictionary.cambridge.org. "official". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) It is synonymous with legal, legitimate, approved. cfr. thesaurus.com. "Synonyms for official". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑While it does not promote the statistical unification of tournaments, that is, it has not changed its name to the Intercontinental Cup, FIFA is the only organization with worldwide jurisdiction over continental confederations and, then, the only one that can confer a title on that level, indeed the title was assigned by FIFA and therefore, the title awarded by the same world federation to the winners of the Intercontinental Cup is legally a FIFA world title. cfr. "FIFA Statutes, April 2016 edition"(PDF). p. 19. cfr.
↑"FIFA Club World Cup 2017"(PDF). FIFA Report 2017. Zurich: Fédération Internationale de Football Association: 15, 40, 41, 42. December 2017. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
↑"FIFA Club World Cup 2017"(PDF). Zurich: Fédération Internationale de Football Association. December 2017. p. 15, 40, 41, 42. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
