The Supercopa de España ( German Spanish Supercup ) is a Spanish soccer competition that was held for the first time in 1982 and was played annually between the Spanish champions and the Spanish cup winners until 2018 . Since 2019, two additional clubs have been playing for the title.
If a club won both the championship and the cup, it had to compete between 1996 and 2018 against the defeated finalists of the cup competition in the Supercup. Until 1995, the double winner was automatically awarded the Supercup trophy. This case occurred twice in the history of the competition: in 1984 and 1989 Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid respectively won the Super Cup in this way.
The previous competitions were the Copa de Campeones (1940), the Copa Presidente Federación Española de Fútbol (1941), the Copa de Oro Argentina ("Argentine Gold Cup", 1945/46), and the Copa Eva Duarte (1947–1953, named after Eva Duarte de Perón ).
Until 2017, the winner of the Supercopa de España was always determined in a return leg in the stadiums of the finalists. In 2018, for the first time, there was only one game at a neutral venue. Another change to the format was announced in February 2019: From now on, four teams will play for the title, including the two cup finalists and the two best-placed teams in the league that did not make it to the cup final.
The pairings are dominated by the three clubs FC Barcelona , Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid , which met each other several times (7 times Barcelona – Real, 5 times Atlético – Barcelona, 2 times Atlético – Real). A Supercopa without one of these three clubs took place for the first time in 2000 and only three times in total (2000, 2002, 2004). The record marks of the competition are set by FC Barcelona (with 13 successes record Supercup winners and with 23 participations also the record participant). The record player and record scorer of the Supercopa is Argentina's Lionel Messi with 19 games and 14 goals for Barcelona , who with eight titles also celebrated the most successes as a single player in this competition.