Triple (sport)
Triple (from English for "triple", but there Treble ) means in sport a triple success within a certain period of time. In team sports , it usually refers to winning the national championship , national cup competition, and a European cup . Winning two titles within a certain period of time is called a double .
Triples in football
A triple in football is the win of the national championship and two cup championships in one season. A distinction can be made between national and international triples. A national triple is the name given to three national title wins in the same season (e.g. championship, national cup, league cup). In an international triple of a European team, one of the titles is usually a European cup competition.
Winning two national and one European titles
Triple with the men
At the European level, you can choose between the "big" triple - winning the national championship, the national cup and the UEFA Champions League (formerly the European Cup ) - and the "small" triple - winning the national championship, the national cup and the UEFA Europa League (formerly UEFA Cup) - differentiate. This never succeeded in connection with the European Cup Winners' Cup . FC Bayern Munich was the first German team to achieve a triple in the 2012/13 season by winning the German championship, the cup and the Champions League; the club repeated this success in the 2019/20 season. So far, seven teams have won the “big” triple nine times, the “small” triple has been won by four teams a total of five times. FC Bayern and FC Barcelona are the only teams to have won the “big” triple and FC Porto the “small” triple twice.
"Big" triple
| season | club | National championship | National Cup | European Cup | Head coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966/67 |
 Celtic Glasgow
|
Scottish Football League | Scottish FA Cup | European Champions Cup |
Jock stone
|
| 1971/72 |
 Ajax Amsterdam
|
Eredivisie | KNVB Cup | European Champions Cup |
 Ștefan Kovács
|
| 1987/88 |
PSV Eindhoven
|
Eredivisie | KNVB Cup | European Champions Cup |
Guus Hiddink
|
| 1998/99 |
 Manchester United
|
Premier League | FA Cup | UEFA Champions League |
Alex Ferguson
|
| 2008/09 |
 FC Barcelona
|
Primera División | Copa del Rey | UEFA Champions League |
pep Guardiola
|
| 2009/10 |
 Inter Milan
|
Series A | Coppa Italia | UEFA Champions League |
 José Mourinho
|
| 2012/13 |
 FC Bayern Munich
|
Bundesliga | DFB Cup | UEFA Champions League |
Jupp Heynckes
|
| 2014/15 |
FC Barcelona
|
Primera División | Copa del Rey | UEFA Champions League |
Luis Enrique
|
| 2019/20 |
FC Bayern Munich
|
Bundesliga | DFB Cup | UEFA Champions League |
Hansi Flick
|
In 1983/84 Liverpool FC won the English league cup in addition to the English championship (then in the Football League ) and the European Cup , but retired from the English Cup ( FA Cup ) prematurely, which meant that it failed to win the Big Triple.
"Little" triple
| season | club | National championship | National Cup | European Cup | Head coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981/82 |
 IFK Gothenburg
|
Fotbollsallsvenskan | Svenska Cupen | Uefa cup |
Sven-Göran Eriksson
|
| 1999/00 |
 Galatasaray Istanbul
|
1st Lig | Türkiye Kupası | Uefa cup |
Fatih Terim
|
| 2002/03 |
FC Porto
|
Primeira League | Taça de Portugal | Uefa cup |
José Mourinho
|
| 2004/05 |
 CSKA Moscow
|
Premjer League | Кубок России | Uefa cup |
Valery Georgievich Gassayev
|
| 2010/11 |
FC Porto
|
Primeira League | Taça de Portugal | UEFA Europa League |
André Villas-Boas
|
Triple in the women
Since there is only one competition at European level in women's football ( UEFA Women's Champions League since 2009 , before that UEFA Women's Cup), no distinction is made between large and small triple. So far, four clubs have won the triple eight times, with Olympique Lyon alone succeeding in this "feat" five times, four of them in a row. 1. FFC Frankfurt was the first German team to achieve a triple by winning the championship, the cup and the UEFA Women's Cup in the 2001/02 season. This success was repeated in 2007/08 and in 2012/13 VfL Wolfsburg won the third triple for German women's football by winning the championship, the cup and the Champions League.
Win three national titles
In states that play three national titles, winning those three titles is often referred to as a triple. In England, for example, winning the championship, the cup and the league cup is considered a domestic treble (domestic triple).
In Germany, in addition to the championship and the cup with the Supercup - at times there was a league cup instead - there is a third title, but since this is only a short competition at the beginning of the season and the media does not receive any attention comparable to the other two titles, this is The term “triple” is rarely used for winning these three titles. Only FC Bayern München 1999/2000, 2004/05, 2007/08 (each with the DFL League Cup ) as well as 2012/13 and 2018/19 (each with the DFL- Supercup ). The amateur team of VfB Stuttgart achieved something extraordinary when they won the three highest possible amateur titles in 1980: the championship in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 1979/80 , the WFV Cup 1979/80 and the German amateur championship in 1980 .
In German women's football, winning the championship in the Bundesliga , the DFB Cup and the DFB Indoor Cup was sometimes referred to as a triple until the indoor cup was abolished in 2015 . The 1. FFC Frankfurt succeeded three times (1998/99, 2001/02 and 2006/07) and the 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (2003/04) and FSV Frankfurt (1994/95) once each.
A triple in Austria ( champions , cup and Supercup ), where the Supercup is still part of the preseason, was only achieved twice by FK Austria Wien , SK Rapid Wien and SK Sturm Graz once each. In 2004, SV Neulengbach achieved the triple in women's football . The Supercup has not been played in Austria since 2005.
| club | number |
|---|---|
|
Celtic Glasgow
|
7th |
|
Glasgow Rangers
|
7th |
|
Glasgow City FC 1
|
5 |
|
FC Bayern Munich
|
5 |
 FC Floriana
|
4th |
|
1. FFC Frankfurt 1
|
3 |
|
Arsenal LFC 1
|
3 |
|
Galatasaray Istanbul
|
3 |
 South China AA
|
3 |
 Linfield FC
|
2 |
 FC Flora Tallinn
|
2 |
 Derry City
|
1 |
|
FSV Frankfurt 1st
|
1 |
 Brøndby IF
|
1 |
|
Sun Hei
|
1 |
 Maccabi Netanya
|
1 |
|
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 1
|
1 |
 Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte
|
1 |
 Panathinaikos Athens
|
1 |
 FK Aqtöbe
|
1 |
|
Benfica Lisbon
|
1 |
 Paris Saint-Germain
|
1 |
|
Manchester City
|
1 |
Winning more than three titles in one season
Occasionally, football teams also succeed in winning more than three titles within a season, which raises the question of whether competitions such as the Supercup or the World Cup are still part of the season on whose titles eligibility depends. Fixed names for the individual title combinations do not exist here, but occasionally - in the logical continuation of double and triple - expressions such as "quadruple" are used in the press.
Celtic Glasgow won in the 1966/67 season in addition to the Scottish Championship, the Scottish Cup and the European Cup of National Champions also the Scottish League Cup. In 2006/07 Arsenal LFC achieved a similar success in the women's championship, cup, UEFA Women's Cup and league cup. In 2001/02, 1. FFC Frankfurt won the championship, trophy and UEFA Women's Cup as well as the DFB indoor cup.
If you include the national Supercup, FC Bayern Munich also achieved four titles in one season, a so-called "quadruple", in the 2012/13 season by winning the big triple and the Supercup (at the beginning of the season). In the second half of 2013, FC Bayern won two more titles, the European Supercup and the FIFA Club World Cup , making a total of five titles in 2013. In 2020, FC Bayern repeated this by winning the triple and the national and European Supercup. Inter Milan also won five titles in 2009/10 by winning the championship, the cup, the Champions League, the national Supercup and the FIFA Club World Cup. With the last two titles mentioned as well as winning the championship and the cup, FC Bayern again won four titles in the 2013/14 season. Ajax Amsterdam also achieved four titles in one season with the - then unofficial - "World Cup", European Supercup, championship and European Cup of National Champions in the 1972/73 season. Even Manchester United won 1998/99 with victories in the championship, the Cup, the Champions League and the World Cup four titles. Real Madrid also won four titles in one year in 2016/17 with the championship, Champions League, European Supercup and Club World Cup. In 2014/15, the French club Paris Saint-Germain was the first club ever to achieve a four-fold national success by winning the championship, cup, league cup and Supercup . This could be repeated in 2015/16 and 2017/18.
With the Spanish Cup, the national championship, the Champions League, the national and European Supercup and the Club World Cup, FC Barcelona has won six titles within one year (2009) - but not one season. No other team has achieved this before.
Triples in basketball
To win a triple in combination with the highest ranking European club competition, see Triple Crown (basketball)
In addition to the Triple Crown, there are various other triple prizes in basketball that have long expressed that the team won all titles in the major competitions in which they were allowed to compete that season. In Eastern Europe in particular, there has been another international competition on a regional European scale since the introduction of the ABA League , the Baltic Basketball League and the VTB United League . This gives the participating teams the opportunity, apart from other national cup competitions in the form of a league cup or a Supercup , to win a fourth title in an important competition, which BC Rytas managed to achieve with the additional title in the Baltic League in 2009. There is also the possibility of winning a "small" triplet without winning a title in a continental European competition.
Continental triples without Euroleague
| season | society |
 Europe
|
National championship | National Cup | Triples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971/72 |
Simmenthal Milan
|
Cup winners | A1 series | Coppa Italia | 1 |
| 1976/77 |
 Jugoplastika Split
|
Korać Cup | YUBA League | Yugoslav Cup | 1 |
| 1978/79 |
KK Partizan Belgrade
|
Korać Cup | YUBA League | Yugoslav Cup | 1 |
| 1982/83 |
Limoges CSP
|
Korać Cup | National 1 | Coupe de France | 1 |
| 1986/87 |
FC Barcelona
|
Korać Cup | League ACB | Copa del Rey | 1 |
| 1987/88 |
Limoges CSP
|
Cup winners | LNB | Tournoi des As | 2 |
| 1993/94 |
 Smelt Olimpija Ljubljana
|
Saporta Cup | 1. A SKL | Slovenian Cup | 1 |
| 1995/96 |
Efes Pilsen Istanbul
|
Korać Cup | TBL | Turkish Cup | 1 |
| 1999/00 |
Limoges CSP
|
Korać Cup | LNB | Coupe de France | 3 |
| 2004/05 |
CSU Asesoft Ploieşti
|
EC Challenge | Divizia A | Romanian Cup | 1 |
| 2008/09 |
 BC Rytas *
|
ULEB Eurocup | LKL | Lithuanian Cup | 1 |
| 2011/12 |
Beşiktaş Milangaz
|
EuroChallenge | TBL | Turkish Cup | 1 |
Regional triples in Eastern Europe
| season | society | International | National championship | National Cup | Triples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007/08 |
Žalgiris Kaunas
|
Baltic League | LKL | Lithuanian Cup | 1 |
| 2007/08 |
 KK Partizan Belgrade
|
ABA league | KLS | Radivoj Korać Cup | 1 |
| 2008/09 |
BC Rytas *
|
Baltic League | LKL | Lithuanian Cup | 1 |
| 2008/09 |
KK Partizan Belgrade
|
ABA league | KLS | Radivoj Korać Cup | 2 |
| 2009/10 |
PBK CSKA Moscow
|
VTB-UL | Superleague | Russian Cup | 1 |
| 2009/10 |
KK Partizan Belgrade
|
ABA league | KLS | Radivoj Korać Cup | 3 |
| 2010/11 |
KK Partizan Belgrade
|
ABA league | KLS | Radivoj Korać Cup | 4th |
| 2010/11 |
Žalgiris Kaunas
|
Baltic League | LKL | Lithuanian Cup | 2 |
| 2011/12 |
Žalgiris Kaunas
|
Baltic League | LKL | Lithuanian Cup | 3 |
| 2011/12 |
Israel
|
Maccabi Tel Aviv 1 | ABA League / Ligat ha'Al | Israeli State Cup | 1 |
| 2013/14 |
 Bulgaria
|
Levski Sofia | BIBL / NBL | Bulgarian Cup | 1 |
* BC Rytas won a quadruple from EuroCup , Baltic League and national double .
1 Maccabi Tel Aviv took part in the ABA League as a visiting team like in 2003, when they reached the final, and won the title in the Adriatic League in addition to a national double.
Triples in ice hockey
The Triple Gold Club includes players who have won the IIHF World Championship as well as the Stanley Cup (NHL) and the ice hockey tournament of the Winter Olympic Games in their careers .
Triples in other sports with the participation of German teams
In 2006/2007 and 2011/2012, the German handball league team THW Kiel achieved the triple of championship, DHB Cup and winning the EHF Champions League. In addition, the triple of championship, DHB Cup and EHF Cup was achieved in 1997/98 .
In 2006/2007 the volleyball players of VfB Friedrichshafen won the triple of championship, cup and Champions League and in 2015/16 the Berlin Recycling Volleys won the "small" triple of championship, cup and CEV cup . The same sporting triumph was achieved by the hockey men from the Club an der Alster (2000) and the water polo team from Spandau 04 (1982, 1984, 1985).
In table tennis, Borussia Düsseldorf won the triple of the German Championship, DTTB Cup and ETTU Champions League in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2017/18 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Bayern takes first German triple www.sport1.de from June 1, 2013 (accessed June 9, 2013)
- ↑ All triple winners - only these ten clubs were ever as dominant as Bayern sportbild.bild.de from June 1, 2013 (accessed June 9, 2013)
- ↑ Bayern in the cup final Schweinsteiger: Triple? Quadruple! www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de from May 30, 2013 (accessed June 9, 2013)
- ↑ Bayern in the cup final Schweinsteiger: Triple? Quadruple! www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de from May 30, 2013 (accessed June 9, 2013)
- ↑ FC Bayern after the triple - The Mentality Masters www.spox.com from June 2, 2013 (accessed June 9, 2013)
- ↑ Borussia Düsseldorf catches the 30th championship title and the triple. tt-news.de, accessed on May 27, 2018 .