Trophée des Champions

The Trophée des Champions (Template:IPA, Template:Literally) is a French association football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of Ligue 1 and the winners of the Coupe de France. It is equivalent to the super cups found in many other countries.

History

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The trophy being held up

The match, with its current name, was first played in 1995, but the format in French football has existed since 1949 when the 1948–49 first division champions, Stade de Reims, defeated the winners of the 1948–49 edition of the Coupe de France, RCF Paris, 4–3 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes. The match is co-organized by the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) and the Union Syndicale des Journalistes Sportifs de France (UJSF).

From 1955 to 1973, the French Football Federation (FFF) hosted a similar match known as the Challenge des champions. The match returned in 1985, but was eliminated after only two seasons due to its unpopularity. In 1995, the FFF officially re-instated the competition under its current name and the inaugural match was contested between Paris Saint-Germain and Nantes in January 1996 at the Stade Francis-Le Blé in Brest. The following season, the match was not played due to Auxerre winning the double. A similar situation occurred in 2008 when Lyon won the double. The match was initially on the brink of cancellation, however, the LFP decided to allow the league runner-up, Bordeaux, to be Lyon's opponents. Bordeaux won the match 5–4 on penalties.

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Marseille with the trophy in 2011

The Trophée des Champions match is contested at the beginning or middle of the following season and has been played at a variety of venues. During the Challenge des Champions era, the match was in such cities as Marseille, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, and Saint-Étienne. From 1995 to 2008, the match was hosted three times at the Stade Gerland in Lyon. Other venues include the Stade Pierre de Coubertin twice in Cannes, the Stade de la Meinau in Strasbourg, and the Stade de l'Abbé Deschamps in Auxerre.

On 12 May 2009, the FFF announced that the 2009 Trophée des Champions would be played outside France for the first time, at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It has since been held in Tunisia, Morocco, United States, Gabon, China, Austria, and most recently, Qatar.Template:Cn For the 2024 season final in Doha, Paris Saint Germain wore Arabic writing on the team's shirts for the first time; the design was created by calligrapher Fatma Al Sharshani.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Matches

Season<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Champions of France vs. Coupe de France winners (1949, unofficial)
1949	Reims	4–3	Racing Paris	Template:Flagicon Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes
Challenge des champions (1955–73, 1985–86)
1955	Reims	7–1	Lille	Template:Flagicon Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	5,000
1956	Sedan	1–0	Nice	Template:Flagicon Parc des Princes, Paris	9,347
1957	Saint-Étienne	2–1	Toulouse	Template:Flagicon Stadium Municipal, Toulouse	11,254
1958	Reims	2–1	Nîmes	Template:Flagicon Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	4,659
1959	Le Havre	2–0	Nice	Template:Flagicon Parc des Princes, Paris	5,006
1960	Reims	6–2	Monaco	Template:Flagicon Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes	15,289
1961	Monaco	1–1<ref group="nb">No penalties were constituted. Monaco won the match via lottery.</ref>	Sedan	Template:Flagicon Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	2,000
1962	Saint-Étienne	4–2	Reims	Template:Flagicon Stade Municipal de Beaublanc, Limoges	8,800
1965	Nantes	3–2	Rennes	Template:Flagicon Stade du Moustoir, Lorient	12,000
1966	Reims	2–0	Nantes	Template:Flagicon Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes	16,000
1967	Saint-Étienne	3–0	Lyon	Template:Flagicon Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne	16,398
1968	Saint-Étienne	5–3	Bordeaux	Template:Flagicon Stade Richter, Montpellier	5,917
1969	Saint-Étienne	3–2	Marseille	Template:Flagicon Parc des Princes, Paris	6,416
1970	Nice	2–0	Saint-Étienne	Template:Flagicon Stade du Ray, Nice	5,023
1971	Rennes and Marseille	2–2<ref group="nb">No winner was declared. Title was shared between the two clubs.</ref>	two winners	Template:Flagicon Stade de l'Armoricaine, Brest
1972	Bastia	5–2	Marseille	Template:Flagicon Stade de Bon Rencontre, Toulon	10,000
1973	Lyon	2–0	Nantes	Template:Flagicon Stade de l'Armoricaine, Brest	10,000
1985	Monaco	1–1 (5–4 pen.)	Bordeaux	Template:Flagicon Parc Lescure, Bordeaux	21,618
1986	Bordeaux	1–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Template:Flagicon Stade Guadeloupe, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe	12,000
Trophée des champions (1995–present)
1995<ref group="nb">Match was played in January 1996.</ref>	Paris Saint-Germain	2–2 (6–5 pen.)	Nantes	Template:Flagicon Stade Francis-Le Blé, Brest	12,000
1996	Match was not played due to Auxerre winning the double.
1997	Monaco	5–2	Nice	Template:Flagicon Stade de la Méditerranée, Béziers	4,000
1998	Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	Lens	Template:Flagicon Stade de la Vallée du Cher, Tours	12,766
1999	Nantes	1–0	Bordeaux	Template:Flagicon Stade de la Licorne, Amiens	11,858
2000	Monaco	0–0 (6–5 pen.)	Nantes	Template:Flagicon Stade Bonal, Montbéliard	9,918
2001	Nantes	4–1	Strasbourg	Template:Flagicon Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg	7,227
2002	Lyon	5–1	Lorient	Template:Flagicon Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, Cannes	5,041
2003	Lyon	2–1	Auxerre	Template:Flagicon Stade Gerland, Lyon	18,254
2004	Lyon	1–1 (7–6 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Template:Flagicon Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, Cannes	9,429
2005	Lyon	4–1	Auxerre	Template:Flagicon Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps, Auxerre	10,967
2006	Lyon	1–1 (5–4 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Template:Flagicon Stade Gerland, Lyon	30,529
2007	Lyon	2–1	Sochaux		30,413
2008	Bordeaux	0–0 (5–4 pen.)	Lyon	Template:Flagicon Stade Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux	27,167
2009	Bordeaux	2–0	Guingamp	Template:Flagicon Stade Olympique, Montreal, Canada	34,068
2010	Marseille	0–0 (5–4 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Template:Flagicon Stade 7 November, Tunis, Tunisia	57,000
2011	Marseille	5–4	Lille	Template:Flagicon Stade Ibn Batouta, Tanger, Morocco	33,900
2012	Lyon	2–2 (4–2 pen.)	Montpellier	Template:Flagicon Red Bull Arena, Harrison, United States	15,166
2013	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Bordeaux	Template:Flagicon Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon	34,658
2014	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Guingamp	Template:Flagicon Workers Stadium, Beijing, China	39,752
2015	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Lyon	Template:Flagicon Stade Saputo, Montreal, Canada	20,057
2016	Paris Saint-Germain	4–1	Lyon	Template:Flagicon Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt, Austria	10,120
2017	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Monaco	Template:Flagicon Stade Ibn Batouta, Tanger, Morocco	43,761
2018	Paris Saint-Germain	4–0	Monaco	Template:Flagicon Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre, Shenzhen, China	41,237
2019	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Rennes		22,045
2020<ref group="nb">Match was played in January 2021.</ref>	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Marseille	Template:Flagicon Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens	0<ref group="nb">Match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.</ref>
2021	Lille	1–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Template:Flagicon Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel	29,000
2022	Paris Saint-Germain	4–0	Nantes		28,000
2023<ref group="nb">Match was played in January 2024.</ref>	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Toulouse	Template:Flagicon Parc des Princes, Paris	43,792
2024<ref group="nb">Match was played in January 2025.</ref>	Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	Monaco	Template:Flagicon Stadium 974, Doha, Qatar	39,682
2025<ref group="nb">Match will be played in January 2026.</ref>	Paris Saint-Germain	v	Marseille	Template:Flagicon Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait	TBA

Results by club

Club	Winner	Runner-up	Years winner	Years runner-up
Paris Saint-Germain	13	5	1995, 1998, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024	1986, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2021
Lyon	8	4	1973, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012	1967, 2008, 2015, 2016
Reims	5*	1	1949* (unofficial), 1955, 1958, 1960, 1966	1962
Saint-Étienne	5	1	1957, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969	1970
Monaco	4	4	1961, 1985, 1997, 2000	1960, 2017, 2018, 2024
Nantes	3	5	1965, 1999, 2001	1966, 1973, 1995, 2000, 2022
Bordeaux	3	4	1986, 2008, 2009	1968, 1985, 1999, 2013
Marseille	3	3	1971, 2010, 2011	1969, 1972, 2020
Nice	1	3	1970	1956, 1959, 1997
Rennes	1	2	1971	1965, 2019
Lille	1	2	2021	1955, 2011
Sedan	1	1	1956	1961
Le Havre	1	0	1959	–
Bastia	1	0	1972	–
Auxerre	0	2	–	2003, 2005
Guingamp	0	2	–	2009, 2014
Racing Paris	0	1	–	1949
Toulouse FC (1937)	0	1	–	1957
Nîmes	0	1	–	1958
Lens	0	1	–	1998
Strasbourg	0	1	–	2001
Lorient	0	1	–	2002
Sochaux	0	1	–	2007
Montpellier	0	1	–	2012
Toulouse FC	0	1	–	2023

External links

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