Treble (association football): Difference between revisions
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Accomplishment in Football
A treble in association football is achieved when a club team wins three trophies in a single season.[1] A continental treble involves winning the club’s premier national league competition, main national cup competition, and main continental trophy.[1][2][3] Although winning a second-tier continental trophy (e.g. Europa League) has also been described as a continental treble, it is not as widely accepted.[1] A domestic treble involves winning three national competitions—including the league title, the primary cup competition, and one secondary competition, such as a secondary cup or state-level league.[4][5]
Competitions which consist of a single match or a two-leg match are not normally counted as part of a treble (e.g., the FA Community Shield, Supercopa de España, Trophée des Champions, DFL-Supercup, UEFA Super Cup, Recopa Sudamericana, FIFA Club World Cup, Intercontinental Cup, and others).[1][6]
Continental trebles[edit]
This list includes clubs who have won their country’s top-tier league and the primary cup competition (the double), in addition to the major continental tournament, all within a single season. Tokyo Verdy of Japan and Barcelona of Spain are the only clubs to win continental trebles for both their men’s and women’s sections, completing the feat in 2019 and 2021, respectively.[7][8]
Men[edit]
22 men’s clubs have achieved the feat with 30 occurring in total, the first being Celtic of Scotland in May 1967, and then TP Mazembe (then known as FC Englebert) of what was then the Republic of the Congo in November 1967.[9][10] European teams have won the most continental trebles with ten, by eight clubs.[3] The only countries to have more than one team win a continental treble are Mexico, New Zealand, England and the Netherlands, with two teams winning trebles each.[3]
No South American team has achieved the feat with the above stipulations, making it the only continent to never have a continental treble winner.[3] Multiple Brazilian teams have won some combination of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, their state championship, the Copa do Brasil, and the now-defunct Taça Brasil, plus the Copa Libertadores, but never by winning the Série A, Copa do Brasil, and Copa Libertadores.[a]
Five men’s clubs have won the continental treble two or more times: Al Ahly SC of Egypt, Auckland City FC of New Zealand, FC Barcelona of Spain, FC Bayern Munich of Germany, and Cruz Azul of Mexico.[11][12][13][9][14] with Cruz Azul being the first team to achieve it in 1997.[14] Al Ahly and Auckland City are the only teams with more than two continental trebles, with Al Ahly having three and Auckland City having a world-record four.[11][12] Auckland City completed this achievement first, winning their third treble in 2015 and fourth in 2022.[12] Al Ahly and Auckland City are also the only men’s clubs to win trebles in back-to-back seasons, though Al Ahly were the first to do this after winning in both 2006 and 2007.[11]
| Confederation | Club | Country | Number won |
Season | Titles won | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC | Yomiuri (currently Tokyo Verdy) |  Japan
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1 | 1987 | Japanese First Division, Emperor’s Cup, Asian Club Championship | [15] |
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