Trophée des Champions

Trophée des Champions
Founded	1995
Region	France
Number of teams	2
Tournament information
Current champions	Paris Saint-Germain (11th title)
Most successful team(s)	Paris Saint-Germain (11 titles)
Current
Website	Official website

The Trophée des Champions, (Champions' Trophy) 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 countries.

History

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 .

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. It has since been held in Tunisia, Morocco, the United States, Gabon, China, Austria and, most recently, Israel.

Matches

Season	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Champions of France vs. Coupe de France winners (1949, unofficial)
1949	Reims	4–3	Racing Paris	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes
Challenge des champions (1955–73, 1985–86)
1955	Reims	7–1	Lille	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
1956	Sedan	1–0	Nice	Parc des Princes, Paris
1957	Saint-Étienne	2–1	Toulouse	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse
1958	Reims	2–1	Nîmes	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
1959	Le Havre	2–0	Nice	Parc des Princes, Paris
1960	Reims	6–2	Monaco	Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes
1961	Monaco	1–1	Sedan	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
1962	Saint-Étienne	4–2	Reims	Stade Municipal de Beaublanc, Limoges
1965	Nantes	3–2	Rennes	Stade du Moustoir, Lorient
1966	Reims	2–0	Nantes	Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes
1967	Saint-Étienne	3–0	Lyon	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne
1968	Saint-Étienne	5–3	Bordeaux	Stade Richter, Montpellier
1969	Saint-Étienne	3–2	Marseille	Parc des Princes, Paris
1970	Nice	2–0	Saint-Étienne	Stade du Ray, Nice
1971	Rennes and Marseille	2–2	two winners	Stade de l'Armoricaine, Brest
1972	Bastia	5–2	Marseille	Stade de Bon Rencontre, Toulon
1973	Lyon	2–0	Nantes	Stade de l'Armoricaine, Brest
1985	Monaco	1–1 (5–4 pen.)	Bordeaux	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
1986	Bordeaux	1–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade Guadeloupe, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Trophée des champions (1995–present)
1995	Paris Saint-Germain	2–2 (6–5 pen.)	Nantes	Stade Francis-Le Blé, Brest	12,000
1996	Match was not played due to Auxerre winning the double.
1997	Monaco	5–2	Nice	Stade de la Méditerranée, Béziers	4,000
1998	Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	Lens	Stade de la Vallée du Cher, Tours	12,766
1999	Nantes	1–0	Bordeaux	Stade de la Licorne, Amiens	11,858
2000	Monaco	0–0 (6–5 pen.)	Nantes	Stade Bonal, Montbéliard	9,918
2001	Nantes	4–1	Strasbourg	Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg	7,227
2002	Lyon	5–1	Lorient	Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, Cannes	5,041
2003	Lyon	2–1	Auxerre	Stade Gerland, Lyon	18,254
2004	Lyon	1–1 (7–6 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, Cannes	9,429
2005	Lyon	4–1	Auxerre	Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps, Auxerre	10,967
2006	Lyon	1–1 (5–4 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade Gerland, Lyon	30,529
2007	Lyon	2–1	Sochaux		30,413
2008	Bordeaux	0–0 (5–4 pen.)	Lyon	Stade Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux	27,167
2009	Bordeaux	2–0	Guingamp	Stade Olympique, Montreal, Canada	34,068
2010	Marseille	0–0 (5–4 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade 7 November, Tunis, Tunisia	57,000
2011	Marseille	5–4	Lille	Stade Ibn Batouta, Tanger, Morocco	33,900
2012	Lyon	2–2 (4–2 pen.)	Montpellier	Red Bull Arena, Harrison, USA	15,166
2013	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Bordeaux	Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon	34,658
2014	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Guingamp	Workers Stadium, Beijing, China	39,752
2015	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Lyon	Stade Saputo, Montreal, Canada	20,057
2016	Paris Saint-Germain	4–1	Lyon	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt, Austria	10,120
2017	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Monaco	Stade Ibn Batouta, Tanger, Morocco	43,761
2018	Paris Saint-Germain	4–0	Monaco	Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre, Shenzhen, China	41,237
2019	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Rennes		22,045
2020	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Marseille	Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens	0
2021	Lille	1–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel	29,000
2022	Paris Saint-Germain	4–0	Nantes		28,000

External links

• Official site