Trophée des Champions

For the handball competition, see Trophée des Champions (handball).

Trophée des Champions

Organising body	LFP
Founded	1955; 70 years ago (1955)
Region	France
Number of teams	2
Related competitions	Coupe de France (qualifier) Ligue 1 (qualifier)
Current champions	Paris Saint-Germain (13th title)
Most successful club(s)	Paris Saint-Germain (13 titles)
2024 Trophée des Champions

The Trophée des Champions (French pronunciation: [tʁɔ.fe de ʃɑ̃.pjɔ̃], lit. 'Champions' Trophy') is a French association football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of Ligue 1 and the winners of the Coupe de France. It is equivalent to the super cups found in many other countries.

History

The trophy being held up

The match, with its current name, was first played in 1995, but the format in French football has existed since 1949 when the 1948–49 first division champions, Stade de Reims, defeated the winners of the 1948–49 edition of the Coupe de France, RCF Paris, 4–3 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes. The match is co-organized by the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) and the Union Syndicale des Journalistes Sportifs de France (UJSF).

From 1955 to 1973, the French Football Federation (FFF) hosted a similar match known as the Challenge des champions. The match returned in 1985, but was eliminated after only two seasons due to its unpopularity. In 1995, the FFF officially re-instated the competition under its current name and the inaugural match was contested between Paris Saint-Germain and Nantes in January 1996 at the Stade Francis-Le Blé in Brest. The following season, the match was not played due to Auxerre winning the double. A similar situation occurred in 2008 when Lyon won the double. The match was initially on the brink of cancellation, however, the LFP decided to allow the league runner-up, Bordeaux, to be Lyon's opponents. Bordeaux won the match 5–4 on penalties.

Marseille with the trophy in 2011

The Trophée des Champions match is contested at the beginning or middle of the following season and has been played at a variety of venues. During the Challenge des Champions era, the match was in such cities as Marseille, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, and Saint-Étienne. From 1995 to 2008, the match was hosted three times at the Stade Gerland in Lyon. Other venues include the Stade Pierre de Coubertin twice in Cannes, the Stade de la Meinau in Strasbourg, and the Stade de l'Abbé Deschamps in Auxerre.

On 12 May 2009, the FFF announced that the 2009 Trophée des Champions would be played outside France for the first time, at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[1] It has since been held in Tunisia, Morocco, United States, Gabon, China, Austria, and most recently, Qatar.

Matches

Season[2]	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Champions of France vs. Coupe de France winners (1949, unofficial)
1949	Reims	4–3	Racing Paris	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes
Challenge des champions (1955–73, 1985–86)
1955	Reims	7–1	Lille	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	5,000
1956	Sedan	1–0	Nice	Parc des Princes, Paris	9,347
1957	Saint-Étienne	2–1	Toulouse	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse	11,254
1958	Reims	2–1	Nîmes	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	4,659
1959	Le Havre	2–0	Nice	Parc des Princes, Paris	5,006
1960	Reims	6–2	Monaco	Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes	15,289
1961	Monaco	1–1[nb 1]	Sedan	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	2,000
1962	Saint-Étienne	4–2	Reims	Stade Municipal de Beaublanc, Limoges	8,800
1965	Nantes	3–2	Rennes	Stade du Moustoir, Lorient	12,000
1966	Reims	2–0	Nantes	Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes	16,000
1967	Saint-Étienne	3–0	Lyon	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne	16,398
1968	Saint-Étienne	5–3	Bordeaux	Stade Richter, Montpellier	5,917
1969	Saint-Étienne	3–2	Marseille	Parc des Princes, Paris	6,416
1970	Nice	2–0	Saint-Étienne	Stade du Ray, Nice	5,023
1971	Rennes and Marseille	2–2[nb 2]	two winners	Stade de l'Armoricaine, Brest
1972	Bastia	5–2	Marseille	Stade de Bon Rencontre, Toulon	10,000
1973	Lyon	2–0	Nantes	Stade de l'Armoricaine, Brest	10,000
1985	Monaco	1–1 (5–4 pen.)	Bordeaux	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux	21,618
1986	Bordeaux	1–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade Guadeloupe, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe	12,000
Trophée des champions (1995–present)
1995[nb 3]	Paris Saint-Germain	2–2 (6–5 pen.)	Nantes	Stade Francis-Le Blé, Brest	12,000
1996	Match was not played due to Auxerre winning the double.
1997	Monaco	5–2	Nice	Stade de la Méditerranée, Béziers	4,000
1998	Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	Lens	Stade de la Vallée du Cher, Tours	12,766
1999	Nantes	1–0	Bordeaux	Stade de la Licorne, Amiens	11,858
2000	Monaco	0–0 (6–5 pen.)	Nantes	Stade Bonal, Montbéliard	9,918
2001	Nantes	4–1	Strasbourg	Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg	7,227
2002	Lyon	5–1	Lorient	Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, Cannes	5,041
2003	Lyon	2–1	Auxerre	Stade Gerland, Lyon	18,254
2004	Lyon	1–1 (7–6 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, Cannes	9,429
2005	Lyon	4–1	Auxerre	Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps, Auxerre	10,967
2006	Lyon	1–1 (5–4 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade Gerland, Lyon	30,529
2007	Lyon	2–1	Sochaux		30,413
2008	Bordeaux	0–0 (5–4 pen.)	Lyon	Stade Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux	27,167
2009	Bordeaux	2–0	Guingamp	Stade Olympique, Montreal, Canada	34,068
2010	Marseille	0–0 (5–4 pen.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade 7 November, Tunis, Tunisia	57,000
2011	Marseille	5–4	Lille	Stade Ibn Batouta, Tanger, Morocco	33,900
2012	Lyon	2–2 (4–2 pen.)	Montpellier	Red Bull Arena, Harrison, United States	15,166
2013	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Bordeaux	Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon	34,658
2014	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Guingamp	Workers Stadium, Beijing, China	39,752
2015	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Lyon	Stade Saputo, Montreal, Canada	20,057
2016	Paris Saint-Germain	4–1	Lyon	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt, Austria	10,120
2017	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Monaco	Stade Ibn Batouta, Tanger, Morocco	43,761
2018	Paris Saint-Germain	4–0	Monaco	Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre, Shenzhen, China	41,237
2019	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Rennes		22,045
2020[nb 4]	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Marseille	Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens	0[nb 5]
2021	Lille	1–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel	29,000
2022	Paris Saint-Germain	4–0	Nantes		28,000
2023[nb 6]	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	Toulouse	Parc des Princes, Paris	43,792
2024[nb 7]	Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	Monaco	Stadium 974, Doha, Qatar	39,682

Results by club

Club	Winner	Runner-up	Years winner	Years runner-up
Paris Saint-Germain	13	5	1995, 1998, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024	1986, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2021
Lyon	8	4	1973, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012	1967, 2008, 2015, 2016
Reims	5*	1	1949* (unofficial), 1955, 1958, 1960, 1966	1962
Saint-Étienne	5	1	1957, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969	1970
Monaco	4	4	1961, 1985, 1997, 2000	1960, 2017, 2018, 2024
Nantes	3	5	1965, 1999, 2001	1966, 1973, 1995, 2000, 2022
Bordeaux	3	4	1986, 2008, 2009	1968, 1985, 1999, 2013
Marseille	3	3	1971, 2010, 2011	1969, 1972, 2020
Nice	1	3	1970	1956, 1959, 1997
Rennes	1	2	1971	1965, 2019
Lille	1	2	2021	1955, 2011
Sedan	1	1	1956	1961
Le Havre	1	0	1959	–
Bastia	1	0	1972	–
Auxerre	0	2	–	2003, 2005
Guingamp	0	2	–	2009, 2014
Racing Paris	0	1	–	1949
Toulouse FC (1937)	0	1	–	1957
Nîmes	0	1	–	1958
Lens	0	1	–	1998
Strasbourg	0	1	–	2001
Lorient	0	1	–	2002
Sochaux	0	1	–	2007
Montpellier	0	1	–	2012
Toulouse FC	0	1	–	2023

Notes

1. No penalties were constituted. Monaco won the match via lottery.
2. No winner was declared. Title was shared between the two clubs.
3. Match was played in January 1996.
4. Match was played in January 2021.
5. Match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
6. Match was played in January 2024.
7. Match was played in January 2025.

References

1. "Le Trophée des champions à Montréal". L'Equipe. 12 May 2009. Archived from the original on 15 May 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
2. "Palmares". Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved 11 July 2010.

External links

• Official site (in French)