Intertoto Cup

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The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from Latin: inter, "between" and German: toto, "betting pool"), originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition between European clubs. The competition was discontinued after the 2008 tournament.

UEFA Intertoto Cup
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Organiser(s)UEFA (from 1995)
Founded1961; 64 years ago (1961)
Abolished2008; 17 years ago (2008)
RegionEurope
Teams50
Related competitionsUEFA Cup (merged with)
Last championsimage Braga
(1st title)
Most championshipsimage Hamburger SV
image Schalke 04
image VfB Stuttgart
image Villarreal
(2 titles each)
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Hamburger SV won the UEFA Intertoto Cup two times, a record jointly held with Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart and Villarreal.

The tournament was founded in 1961–62, but was only taken over by UEFA in 1995. Initially, the tournament ended with a single champion, who received the Intertoto Cup. Starting in 1967, the tournament ended with a number of group winners (7 to 14 winners), who received cash prizes. When UEFA took on the tournament, it became a qualifier for the UEFA Cup, with 2 to 11 Intertoto winners advancing to the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.

Any club who wished to participate had to apply for entry, with the highest placed clubs (by league position in their domestic league) at the end of the season entering the competition. The club did not have to be ranked directly below the clubs which had qualified for another UEFA competition; if the club which was in that position did not apply, they would not be eligible to compete, with the place instead going to the club which did apply.

The cup billed itself as providing both an opportunity for clubs who otherwise would not get the chance to enter the UEFA Cup and as an opportunity for sports lotteries (or pools) to continue during the summer. This reflects its background, which was as a tournament solely for football pools. In 1995, the tournament came under official UEFA sanctioning and UEFA Cup qualification places were granted. Initially, two were provided; this was increased to three after one year, but in 2006, it was again increased to the final total of 11.

History

Beginnings

The Intertoto Cup was the idea of Malmö FF chairman Eric Persson and the later FIFA vice-president and founder of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Ernst B. Thommen, and the Austrian coach Karl Rappan, who coached the Switzerland national team at the 1938 FIFA World Cup and at the 1954 World Cup. The "Cup for the Cupless" was also heavily promoted by the Swiss newspaper Sport. It derived its name from Toto, the German term for football pools.

Thommen, who had set up football betting pools in Switzerland in 1932, had a major interest in having purposeful matches played in the summer break. UEFA were initially disinclined to support the tournament, finding its betting background distasteful; nevertheless they permitted the new tournament but refrained from getting officially involved. Clubs which qualified for one of the official continental competitions, such as the European Champions Cups and Cup Winners' Cup, were not allowed to participate.

Early independent tournaments

The first tournament was held in 1961 as the International Football Cup (IFC). Initially the Cup had a group stage, which led to knock-out matches culminating in a final. By 1967, it had become difficult to organize the games, and so the knock-out rounds and the final were scrapped, leaving the tournament without a single winner. Instead, group winners received prizes of CHF10,000-15,000.

Entering the UEFA fold

By 1995, UEFA had reconsidered their opinion, took official control of the tournament and changed its format. Initially, two winners were given a place in the UEFA Cup. The success of one of the first winners, Bordeaux, in reaching the final of the 1995–96 UEFA Cup encouraged UEFA to add a third UEFA Cup place in 1996.

Many clubs disliked the competition and saw it as disruptive in the preparation for the new season. As a consequence, they did not nominate themselves for participation even if entitled. In particular, following its 1995 relaunch, clubs in England were sceptical about the competition; after initially being offered three places in the cup, all English top division teams rejected the chance to take part. Following the threat of bans of English teams from all UEFA competitions, three English clubs were entered but fielded weakened teams. UEFA's punishment was to dock England a fourth UEFA Cup qualification place in 1995–96 "due to the conduct of Tottenham and Wimbledon in last season's Intertoto Cup".

In following years, UEFA made it possible for nations to forfeit Intertoto places. For example, in 1998, Scotland, San Marino and Moldova forfeited their places, and England, Portugal, and Greece forfeited one of their two, Crystal Palace being the sole English entrant despite finishing bottom of the Premier League. Other clubs have built upon their success in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, following it up with great campaigns in the UEFA Cup. Furthermore, UEFA rejected this assertion that the tournament is disruptive. They point out that in the 2004–05 season, two of the three 2004 Intertoto Cup winners went on to qualify directly for the Champions League (Schalke and Lille) whilst the 3rd one qualified by winning its 3rd qualifying round (Villarreal).

Abolition

Following the election of new UEFA president Michel Platini, Intertoto Cup was abolished in 2008, as part of changes that were made for UEFA Cup/Champions League system. Instead of teams qualifying for the Intertoto Cup, they would now qualify directly for the qualifying stages of the UEFA Europa League, which was expanded to four rounds to accommodate them. The UEFA Europa Conference League was introduced in 2021 as a third-tier European tournament.

Format

When the competition was taken over by UEFA in 1995, the format was both a group stage and a knock-out stage; 60 teams were split into 12 groups of five with the 16 best teams then contesting the knock-out stage with two-legged ties at each stage, the two winning finalists qualifying for the UEFA Cup. In 1996 and 1997, just the 12 group winners entered the knock-out round, with now three finalists advancing. Nations were allocated places according to their UEFA coefficients, much as with other UEFA tournaments.

The group stage was scrapped for the 1998 tournament, which became a straight knock-out tournament, with clubs from more successful nations entering at a later stage. This arrangement lasted until 2005.

From the 2006 tournament, the format for the Cup changed. There were three rounds instead of the previous five, and the 11 winning teams from the third round went through to the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. The clubs which were furthest in the UEFA Cup would each be awarded with a trophy. The first club that received that trophy (a plaque) was Newcastle United.

Only one team from each national association was allowed to enter. However, if one or more nations did not take up their place, the possibility was left open for nations to have a second entrant. Seedings and entry were determined by each association. Teams from the weakest federations entered at the first round stage, while those from mid-level federations entered in the second round, and those from the strongest federations entered in the third round.

Results

Before UEFA sanctioning

Winners by year (1961–1967)

The results shown are the aggregate total over two legs unless otherwise noted.

Season Winners Runners-up Results
1961–62 image Ajax image Feyenoord 4–2*
1962–63 image Inter Bratislava image Padova 1–0*
1963–64 image Inter Bratislava image Polonia Bytom 1–0*
1964–65 image Polonia Bytom image SC Leipzig 5–4
1965–66 image 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig image IFK Norrköping 4–1
1966–67 image Eintracht Frankfurt image Inter Bratislava 4–3
* – Single match finals

No declared winners (1967–1994)

During this time there were no competition winners, as only group stages were contested. The outright winners (determined by their best champions) are marked in bold.

Region system (1967, 1968, 1970)
Year Group A1 Group A2 Group A3 Group A4 Group A5 Group A6 Group B1 Group B2 Group B3 Group B4 Group B5 Group B6 Group B7 Group B8
1967 image Lugano image Feyenoord image Lille image Lierse – – image Hannover 96 image Zagłębie Sosnowiec image Polonia Bytom image Gothenburg image Ruch Chorzów image Košice image KB image Fortuna Düsseldorf
1968 image Nuremberg image Ajax image Sporting image Feyenoord image Español image ADO Den Haag image Karl-Marx-Stadt image Empor Rostock image Slovan Bratislava image Košice image Lokomotíva Košice image Odra Opole image Eintracht Braunschweig image Legia Warsaw
1970 image Slovan Bratislava image Hamburger SV image Union Teplice image MVV image Košice – image Eintracht Braunschweig image Slavia Prague image Marseille image Öster image Wisła Kraków image Austria Salzburg image Baník Ostrava image Polonia Bytom
Non-region system (1969, 1971–1994)
Year Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10 Group 11 Group 12
1969 image Malmö FF image Szombierki Bytom image SpVgg Fürth image Žilina image Norrköping image Jednota Trenčín image Frem image Wisła Kraków image Odra Opole – – –
1971 image Hertha BSC image Stal Mielec image Servette image Třinec image Åtvidaberg image Eintracht Braunschweig image Austria Salzburg – – – – –
1972 image Nitra image Norrköping image Saint-Étienne image Slavia Prague image Slovan Bratislava image Eintracht Braunschweig image Hannover 96 image VÖEST Linz – – – –
1973 image Hannover 96 image Slovan Bratislava image Hertha BSC image Zürich image Rybnik image Union Teplice image Feyenoord image Wisła Kraków image Nitra image Öster – –
1974 image Zürich image Hamburger SV image Malmö FF image Standard Liège image Slovan Bratislava image Spartak Trnava image Duisburg image Baník Ostrava image Košice image CUF – –
1975 image Tirol Innsbruck image VÖEST Linz image Eintracht Braunschweig image Zagłębie Sosnowiec image Zbrojovka Brno image Rybnik image Åtvidaberg image 1. FC Kaiserslautern image Belenenses image Čelik Zenica – –
1976 image Young Boys image Hertha BSC image Union Teplice image Baník Ostrava image Zbrojovka Brno image Spartak Trnava image Internacionál Bratislava image Öster image Djurgården image Vojvodina image Widzew Łódź –
1977 image Halmstad image Duisburg image Internacionál Bratislava image Slavia Sofia image Slavia Prague image Frem image Jednota Trenčín image Slovan Bratislava image Öster image Pogoń Szczecin – –
1978 image Duisburg image Slavia Prague image Hertha BSC image Eintracht Braunschweig image Malmö FF image Lokomotiva Košice image Tatran Prešov image Maccabi Netanya image GAK – – –
1979 image Werder Bremen image Grasshopper image Eintracht Braunschweig image Bohemians Prague image Spartak Trnava image Zbrojovka Brno image Pirin Blagoevgrad image Baník Ostrava – – – –
1980 image Standard Liège image Bohemians Prague image Maccabi Netanya image Sparta Prague image Nitra image Halmstad image Malmö FF image Gothenburg image Elfsborg – – –
1981 image Wiener Sportclub image Standard Liège image Werder Bremen image Budućnost image AGF image Molenbeek image Gothenburg image Stuttgarter Kickers image Cheb – – –
1982 image Standard Liège image Widzew Łódź image AGF image Lyngby image Admira Wacker Mödling image Bohemians Prague image Brage image Öster image Gothenburg – – –
1983 image Twente image Young Boys image Pogoń Szczecin image Maccabi Netanya image Sloboda Tuzla image Bohemians Prague image Gothenburg image Hammarby image Fehérvár image Vítkovice – –
1984 image Bohemians Prague image AGF image Fortuna Düsseldorf image Standard Liège image AIK image Malmö FF image Videoton image Maccabi Netanya image Zürich image GKS Katowice – –
1985 image Werder Bremen image Rot-Weiss Erfurt image Gothenburg image AIK image Wismut Aue image Sparta Prague image Górnik Zabrze image Maccabi Haifa image Baník Ostrava image Újpesti Dózsa image MTK Hungária –
1986 image Fortuna Düsseldorf image Union Berlin image Malmö FF image Rot-Weiss Erfurt image Sigma Olomouc image Újpesti Dózsa image Brøndby image Lyngby image Lech Poznań image Gothenburg image Slavia Prague image Carl Zeiss Jena
1987 image Carl Zeiss Jena image Pogoń Szczecin image Wismut Aue image Tatabánya image Malmö FF image AIK image Etar Veliko Tarnovo image Brøndby – – – –
1988 image Malmö FF image Gothenburg image Baník Ostrava image Austria Wien image Young Boys image 1. FC Kaiserslautern image Ikast FS image Carl Zeiss Jena image Grasshopper image Karlsruher SC image Bayer Uerdingen –
1989 image Luzern image Boldklubben 1903 image Tirol Innsbruck image Grasshopper image Tatabánya image Næstved image Örebro image Sparta Prague image Baník Ostrava image Örgryte image 1. FC Kaiserslautern –
1990 image Neuchâtel Xamax image Tirol Innsbruck image Lech Poznań image Slovan Bratislava image Malmö FF image GAIS image Luzern image First Vienna image Chemnitz image Bayer Uerdingen image Odense –
1991 image Neuchâtel Xamax image Lausanne-Sports image Austria Salzburg image Dukla Banská Bystrica image Boldklubben 1903 image Grasshopper image Bayer Uerdingen image Dunajská Streda image Tirol Innsbruck image Örebro – –
1992 image Copenhagen image Siófok image Bayer Uerdingen image Karlsruher SC image Rapid Wien image Lyngby image Slovan Bratislava image AaB image Slavia Prague image Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa – –
1993 image Rapid Wien image Trelleborg image Norrköping image Malmö FF image Slavia Prague image Zürich image Young Boys image Dynamo Dresden – – – –
1994 image Halmstad image Young Boys image AIK image Hamburger SV image Békéscsaba image Slovan Bratislava image Grasshopper image Austria Wien – – – –

Winners by year (UEFA)

1995–2005

The results shown are the aggregate total over two legs. Listed are each year's three teams (two in 1995) that won the final matches, qualifying them for the UEFA Cup.

Year Winners Runners-up Result
1995 image Strasbourg image Tirol Innsbruck 7–2
image Bordeaux image Karlsruher SC 4–2
1996 image Karlsruher SC image Standard Liège 3–2
image Guingamp image Rotor Volgograd 2–2 (a)
image Silkeborg image Segesta 2–2 (a)
1997 image Bastia image Halmstad 2–1
image Lyon image Montpellier 4–2
image Auxerre image Duisburg 2–0
1998 image Valencia image Austria Salzburg 4–1
image Werder Bremen image Vojvodina 2–1
image Bologna image Ruch Chorzów 3–0
1999 image Montpellier image Hamburger SV 2–2 (3–0 pen.)
image Juventus image Rennes 4–2
image West Ham United image Metz 3–2
2000 image Udinese image Sigma Olomouc 6–4
image Celta Vigo image Zenit Saint Petersburg 4–3
image VfB Stuttgart image Auxerre 3–1
2001 image Aston Villa image Basel 5–2
image Paris Saint-Germain image Brescia 1–1 (a)
image Troyes image Newcastle United 4–4 (a)
2002 image Málaga image Villarreal 2–1
image Fulham image Bologna 5–3
image VfB Stuttgart image Lille 2–1
2003 image Schalke 04 image Pasching 2–0
image Villarreal image Heerenveen 2–1
image Perugia image VfL Wolfsburg 3–0
2004 image Lille image Leiria 2–0 (a.e.t.)
image Schalke 04 image Slovan Liberec 3–1
image Villarreal image Atlético Madrid 2–2 (3–1 pen.)
2005 image Hamburger SV image Valencia 1–0
image Lens image CFR Cluj 4–2
image Marseille image Deportivo La Coruña 5–3

2006–2008

Listed are all 11 teams that won the Intertoto Cup, qualifying for the UEFA Cup. The outright winners (determined by the best performance in the UEFA Cup) are marked in bold.

Year Outright winners Joint winners
2006 image Newcastle United image Auxerre image Grasshopper image OB image Marseille image Hertha BSC
image Kayserispor image Ethnikos Achna image Twente image Ried image Maribor
2007 image Hamburg image Atlético Madrid image AaB image Sampdoria image Blackburn Rovers image Lens
image Leiria image Rapid Wien image Hammarby IF image Oţelul Galaţi image Tobol
2008 image Braga image Aston Villa image Deportivo La Coruña image VfB Stuttgart image Rosenborg image Napoli
image Rennes image Vaslui image Elfsborg image Grasshopper image Sturm Graz

Statistics

From 2006 onwards, the final round was no longer termed as the "Final", but instead simply as the "Third Round". In addition, there were 11 winners, compared to three under the old system. The clubs which progressed furthest in the UEFA Cup were awarded with a trophy (plaque).

Performance by club
Club Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
image Villarreal 2 1 2003, 2004 2002
image Hamburger SV 2 1 2005, 2007 1999
image VfB Stuttgart 2 0 2000, 2002 —
image Schalke 04 2 0 2003, 2004 —
image Karlsruher SC 1 1 1996 1995
image Auxerre 1 1 1997 2000
image Bologna 1 1 1998 2002
image Valencia 1 1 1998 2005
image Montpellier 1 1 1999 1997
image Lille 1 1 2004 2002
image Newcastle United 1 1 2006 2001
image Bordeaux 1 0 1995 —
image Strasbourg 1 0 1995 —
image Guingamp 1 0 1996 —
image Silkeborg 1 0 1996 —
image Bastia 1 0 1997 —
image Lyon 1 0 1997 —
image Werder Bremen 1 0 1998 —
image Juventus 1 0 1999 —
image West Ham United 1 0 1999 —
image Celta Vigo 1 0 2000 —
image Udinese 1 0 2000 —
image Aston Villa 1 0 2001 —
image Paris Saint-Germain 1 0 2001 —
image Troyes 1 0 2001 —
image Fulham 1 0 2002 —
image Málaga 1 0 2002 —
image Perugia 1 0 2003 —
image Lens 1 0 2005 —
image Marseille 1 0 2005 —
image Braga 1 0 2008 —
image Tirol Innsbruck 0 1 — 1995
image Rotor Volgograd 0 1 — 1996
image Segesta 0 1 — 1996
image Standard Liège 0 1 — 1996
image MSV Duisburg 0 1 — 1997
image Halmstads BK 0 1 — 1997
image Austria Salzburg 0 1 — 1998
image Ruch Chorzów 0 1 — 1998
image Vojvodina 0 1 — 1998
image Metz 0 1 — 1999
image Rennes 0 1 — 1999
image Sigma Olomouc 0 1 — 2000
image Zenit Saint Petersburg 0 1 — 2000
image Basel 0 1 — 2001
image Brescia 0 1 — 2001
image Pasching 0 1 — 2003
image Heerenveen 0 1 — 2003
image VfL Wolfsburg 0 1 — 2003
image Atlético Madrid 0 1 — 2004
image Leiria 0 1 — 2004
image Slovan Liberec 0 1 — 2004
image CFR Cluj 0 1 — 2005
image Deportivo La Coruña 0 1 — 2005
Performance by nation
Nation Winners Runners-up
image France 12 5
image Germany 8 4
image Spain 5 4
image Italy 4 2
image England 4 1
image Portugal 1 1
image Denmark 1 0
image Austria 0 3
image Czech Republic 0 2
image Russia 0 2
image Belgium 0 1
image Croatia 0 1
image Netherlands 0 1
image Poland 0 1
image Romania 0 1
image Sweden 0 1
image Switzerland 0 1
image Yugoslavia 0 1

Winners by nation

Nation Winners Runners-up Winning and group champion clubs Runner-up and group runners-up clubs
image Czechoslovakia 62 34 Slovan Bratislava (8), Banik Ostrava (7), Bohemians Prague (6), Slavia Prague (6), Inter Bratislava (4), Košice (4), Nitra (3), Sparta Prague (3), Spartak Trnava (3), Union Teplice (3), Zbrojovka Brno (3), Jednota Trencin (2), Lokomotiva Kosice (2), DAC Dunajská Streda, Dukla Banská Bystrica, Cheb, Sigma Olomouc, Tatran Prešov, Třinec, Vítkovice, Žilina Slavia Prague (5), Bohemians Prague (3), Cheb (3), Inter Bratislava (3), Nitra (2), Sigma Olomouc (2), Sparta Prague (2), Spartak Trnava (2), Zbrojovka Brno (2), Žilina (2), DAC Dunajská Streda, Dukla Prague, Jednota Trencin, Košice, Slovan Bratislava, Tatran Prešov, Union Teplice, Vítkovice
image Germany 50 46 Eintracht Braunschweig (7), Hamburg (5), Hertha BSC (5), Bayer Uerdingen (4), Werder Bremen (4), Duisburg (3), Fortuna Düsseldorf (3), Hannover 96 (3), Kaiserslautern (3), Karlsruhe (3), Stuttgart (3), Schalke 04 (2), Dynamo Dresden, Eintracht Frankfurt, Nuremberg, SpVgg Fürth, Stuttgarter Kickers Duisburg (5), Kaiserslautern (5), Werder Bremen (5), Arminia Bielefeld (3), Bayer Leverkusen (3), Hertha BSC (3), Bochum (2), Fortuna Düsseldorf (2), Hannover 96 (2), Karlsruhe (2), Saarbrücken (2), 1860 Münich, Bayer Uerdingen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Braunschweig, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hallescher, Hamburg, Kickers Offenbach, Lokomotive Leipzig, Schalke 04, Stuttgarter Kickers, Wolfsburg
image Sweden 46 28 Malmö FF (10), IFK Göteborg (8), Öster (5), AIK (4), Halmstad (3) IFK Norrköping (3), Atvidaberg (2), Elfsborg (2), Hammarby (2), Örebro (2), Brage, Djurgården, GAIS, Örgryte, Trelleborg Malmö FF (8), Atvidaberg (2), IFK Göteborg (2), IFK Norrköping (2), Kalmar (2), Örgryte (2), Öster (2), Djurgården, Häcken, Halmstad, Hammarby, Helsingborg, Landskrona, Örebro, Trelleborg
image Poland 25 27 Pogoń Szczecin (3), Polonia Bytom (3), Wisla Kraków (3), Lech Poznań (2), Odra Opole (2), ROW Rybnik (2), Widzew Łódź (2), Zaglebie Sosnowiec (2), Górnik Zabrze, Katowice, Legia Warsaw, Ruch Chorzów, Szombierki Bytom Zaglebie Sosnowiec (4), Górnik Zabrze (2), Gwardia Warsaw (2), Katowice (2), Legia Warsaw (2), Polonia Bytom (2), Ruch Chorzów (2), Szombierki Bytom (2), Wisla Kraków (2), Lech Poznań, LKS Łódź, Odra Opole, Pogoń Szczecin, ROW Rybnik, Widzew Łódź, Zawisza Bydgoszcz
image Switzerland 22 15 Grasshopper (6), Young Boys (5), Zürich (4), Luzern (2), Neuchâtel Xamax (2), Lausanne Sports, Lugano, S

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