List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season

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In a football season, clubs typically compete in a number of different competitions: usually a domestic league and at least one cup competition, as well as sometimes competing in continental football, that is, the tournaments organised by one of FIFA's five confederations. Winning multiple competitions is seen as a particularly momentous achievement.[1][2]

Although doubles and trebles are fairly common achievements,[3] winning four or more trophies in one season is exceptionally rare. In recent years, the neologisms quadruple, quintuple, sextuple (and so on) have come to be occasionally used to refer to winning four, five or six top-tier trophies in a single season or a year.[4][5][2][6][7][8]

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[edit] Four titles in one season

This is sometimes referred to as a quadruple.[4]

  • Santos won all four tournaments in which they competed in the 1962 season[9]:
  1. Campeonato Paulista
  2. Intercontinental Cup
  3. Copa Libertadores
  4. Taça Brasil

[edit] Five titles in one season or year

This is sometimes referred to as a 'quintuple'. As winning five trophies in one season is extremely rare, the word 'quintuple' is sometimes extended to a calendar year. [7]

  1. European Cup (Highest Continental Competition)
  2. Scottish First Division (Highest Domestic League Competition)
  3. Scottish Cup (Highest Domestic Cup Competition)
  4. Scottish League Cup (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition)
  5. Glasgow Cup (Regional Domestic Cup Competition)
  • Spanish club F.C. Barcelona have achieved this feat twice: in 2009 (as part of sextuple) and in 2011,[14] winning all the titles that year except for 2010–11 Copa del Rey where they were runner up:
  1. 2010–11 La Liga (Highest Domestic Competition)
  2. 2011 Supercopa de España (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition)
  3. 2010–11 UEFA Champions League (Highest Continental Competition)
  4. 2011 UEFA Super Cup (Secondary Continental Cup Competition)
  5. 2011 FIFA Club World Cup (Highest Intercontinental Competition)
  • Italian club Internazionale have achieved this feat, winning all the titles for which they competed in 2010 except UEFA Super Cup:[7]
  1. 2009–10 Serie A (Highest Domestic Competition)
  2. 2009–10 Coppa Italia (Highest Domestic Cup Competition)
  3. 2010 Supercoppa Italiana (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition)
  4. 2009–10 UEFA Champions League (Highest Continental Competition)
  5. 2010 FIFA Club World Cup (Highest Intercontinental Competition)

[edit] Six titles in one season or year

The term sextuple is sometimes used to refer to a club winning six tournaments in a year. There has only been one recorded occurrence of a domestic top flight team achieving this:

  • FC Barcelona are the only mens team to ever win a sextuple, when they won all six domestic and international titles they contested in 2009: their three trophies in the 2008–09 season allowed them to play and win another three competitions the following season.[15][16][17][18][19]
  1. 2008–09 La Liga (Highest Domestic League Competition)
  2. 2008–09 Copa del Rey (Highest Domestic Cup Competition)
  3. 2008–09 UEFA Champions League (Highest Continental Competition)
  4. 2009 Supercopa de España (Secondary Domestic Cup Competition, For Winners of La Liga and Copa del Rey)
  5. 2009 UEFA Super Cup (Secondary Continental Cup Competition, For Winners of UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup)
  6. 2009 FIFA Club World Cup (Highest Intercontinental Competition, For Winners of Continental Competitions, which is UEFA Champions League in Europe).[8]

[edit] References

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  2. ^ a b "Ferguson cools talk of quintuple". BBC Sport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/7917973.stm. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  3. ^ Moore, Kevin (2008). "Sports heritage and the re‐imaged city: the National Football Museum, Preston". International Journal of Cultural Policy 14 (4): 445–461. doi:10.1080/10286630802445922. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10286630802445922. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  4. ^ a b "The meaning of the word "Quadruple" in English". Meaningof. http://www.meaningof.ca/Quadruple. Retrieved 16 December 2011. 
  5. ^ "Extended Definition: Quadruple". Websters Online Dictionary. http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Quadruple. Retrieved 16 December 2011. 
  6. ^ Top ten successful seasons. Sky Sports. 26 March 2009. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11907_5006367,00.html. 
  7. ^ a b c "FIFA.com - What is your favourite football memory of 2010?". FIFA.com. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1355886.html. Retrieved 19 December 2011. 
  8. ^ a b "Kings, queens and a young prince". FIFA.com. 2009-12-23. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/news/newsid=1151723.html. Retrieved 2010-03-12. 
  9. ^ "Club World Cup Final Preview: Santos v Barcelona". Goal.com. http://www.goal.com/en/match/71757/santos-vs-fc-barcelona/preview. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  10. ^ "Bobby Charlton: Liverpool 'Thrashing' Will Be Good For Manchester United". Goal.com. 15 March 2009. http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2009/03/16/1157660/bobby-charlton-liverpool-thrashing-will-be-good-for-manchester-u. Retrieved 16 November 2011. 
  11. ^ "Silverware Special: In Honour Of Barcelona - Meet The Treble-Winners". Goal.com. 28 May 2009. http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2009/05/28/1290824/silverware-special-in-honour-of-barcelona-meet-the-treble. Retrieved 16 November 2011. 
  12. ^ "Man Utd aim for record trophy haul". Tehran Times. 3 March 2009. http://old.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=190345. Retrieved 19 December 2011. 
  13. ^ . The Times. http://www.timesplus.co.uk/tto/news/?login=false&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Ftto%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fclubs%2Fmanchesterunited%2F. Retrieved 19 December 2011. 
  14. ^ "Barcelona Crowned World Champions As Messi Claims Golden Ball". ChannelsTV.com. http://www.channelstv.com/global/news_details.php?nid=30687&cat=Sports. Retrieved 19 December 2011. 
  15. ^ "Barcelona cannot be despondent for missing Champions League double". Guradian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/apr/29/pep-guardiola-barcelona-champions-league. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  16. ^ "Messi masterclass ends Stuttgart's challenge". Independent.co.uk. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/messi-masterclass-ends-stuttgarts-challenge-1923119.html. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  17. ^ "Sky Sports - Interactive - Top Tens - Football - Top Ten highlights of 2009". SkySports.com. http://www.skysports.com/interactive/top_tens_story/0,25722,15882_5793245,00.html. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  18. ^ "Cesc Fabregas transfer: Five more Arsenal stars that moved to Barcelona". Metro.co.uk. http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/826909-cesc-fabregas-transfer-five-more-arsenal-stars-that-moved-to-barcelona. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  19. ^ "FIFA.com - The year in pictures". FIFA.com. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1151676.html. Retrieved 19 December 2011. 
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