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Sextuple (association football)

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The term sextuple is mainly used in the sports press for winning six important national and international titles in sport, especially in football, within one season or calendar year.

During a football season, clubs typically take part in a number of national competitions, such as in a league and one or more cup competitions, and sometimes in continental competitions. Winning multiple competitions is considered a particularly significant achievement. Doubles and triples tend to be long-remembered achievements, but they occur with a certain frequency, while winning four or more trophies in a season is much less common. In the 2010s, the terms quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple were sometimes used to refer to four, five, and six trophies in a single season.[1][2]

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The six trophies won by Barcelona in 2009 on display in the Camp Nou museum.
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The six trophies won by Bayern Munich in 2020 exhibited in the Allianz Arena.

Sextuple in continental football

In terms of football, the sextuple means that a club has to win six official competitions in a row. The performance can be achieved through victories in the same season or calendar year.[3]

The three national titles in a continent are:

The two international titles in a continent are:

The international title worldwide is:

Currently, only the clubs from the top-flight leagues in Africa, Europe or South America can have a chance to achieve a sextuple, due to the presence of continental super cups in those continents.

Sextuple winners

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Pep Guardiola, former Barcelona manager, who achieved the first international sextuple in 2009.

Currently, FC Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich are the only two teams to have achieved the sextuple. Both teams won the only six possible trophies, as neither Spain nor Germany has a league cup and the Intercontinental Cup was non-existent at the time.

2009: Spain FC Barcelona

Coach: Spain Pep Guardiola

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2009 La Liga
Copa del Rey
Supercopa de España
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Super Cup
FIFA Club World Cup
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Hansi Flick, former Bayern Munich manager, who achieved the second international sextuple in 2020.

2020: Germany FC Bayern Munich

Coach: Germany Hansi Flick

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2020 Bundesliga
DFB-Pokal
DFL-Supercup
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Super Cup
FIFA Club World Cup
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Missed sextuples

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The following teams could not win the sixth official competition after a quintuple and thus missed out on the sextuple:

Seventh and Eighth Title

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On 11 February 2021, just minutes after Bayern Munich won the FIFA Club World Cup final to secure a sextuple, former Bayern coach Pep Guardiola jokingly challenged the side to a match against previous sextuple winners Barcelona, a team that was managed by Guardiola at the time. As these two sides were the only ones to have achieved a sextuple in football history, he suggested that they could play for a seventh title.[10]

It is technically possible for certain teams to win seven trophies in a single calendar year; for example, a top-flight English club can win the standard six trophies that are of similar calibre and format to the ones achieved in previous sextuples, but can also add a seventh title by winning the EFL Cup, a secondary national cup in England which does not exist in the many other countries that have only one domestic cup competition.

In 2025, there was an opportunity for any European, African or South American top division league club to win seven trophies supplemented by a domestic cup and super cup, as well as an octuple for top-flight clubs in some countries (such as England, Argentina, or Egypt), if they win a FIFA Intercontinental Cup in the same year in which the revamped FIFA Club World Cup took place.[11]

Celtic were close to achieving the feat of septuple feat in 1967, when they added a European Cup title to their domestic quadruple consisting of the Scottish First Division, Scottish Cup, secondary Scottish League Cup and tertiary Glasgow Cup. However, there was an absence of either a Scottish[a] or European Super Cup at the time,[b] and Celtic's subsequent loss against Argentine side Racing Club in the 1967 Intercontinental Cup prevented them from achieving their seventh major honour within the year.[12]

See also

Notes

  1. Scotland has never organized a domestic Super cup
  2. The UEFA Super Cup's inaugural competition was in 1973.

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