Transatlantic stat attack
Wednesday 2 January 2008
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Nacional celebrate winning the 1988 competition (©Getty Images)
Most wins:
3 CA Boca Juniors, AC Milan, CD Nacional, CA Peñarol and Real Madrid CF
Most wins by country:
9 Argentina
7 Italy
6 Brazil, Uruguay
4 Spain
Wins by continent
22 South America
21 Europe
The top scorer in the competition history is Brazilian legend Pelé, who scored seven goals in Santos FC's back-to-back successes in 1962 and 1963. The second top scorer is less well-known: Ecuadorian striker Alberto Spencer, who scored six goals for CA Peñarol in the 1960, 1961 and 1966 editions.
Juan Verón scored for Club Estudiantes de la Plata in their 2-1 aggregate success against Manchester United FC in 1968. His son Juan Sebastian Verón later played for the English side.
South American clubs won the competition in seven successive years between 1977 and 1984.
Europe's best run came between 1995 and 1999 with five titles.
AC Milan have competed in the competition more than any team with seven apperances but they have only recorded three wins.
Club Atlético de Madrid are the only team to have won the title without winning their continental title the previous year. They defeated CA Independiente in 1975 after European champions FC Bayern München declined to participate. On the five other occasions in which the continental runners-up replaced the champions, the replacement side lost.
The first goal in the competition was scored by Ferenc Puskás two minutes into the second leg of Real Madrid CF's 5-1 aggregate win over CA Peñarol
Alfredo di Stefano became the first South American player to score a minute after Puskás. The Argentinian-born player, who played internationally for both Argentina and Spain, set the trend of South American players scoring for their new European teams. Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Romário are among the South Americans to have scored for European clubs.
The two biggest wins came in the first two years of the competition - Madrid's 5-1 win over Peñarol in 1960 and Peñarol's 5-0 win over SL Benfica in 1961.
The last two editions of the competition were decided after a penalty shoot-out - the fourth and fifth times this happened in the competition's history.
Cafu, the only player to have played in three FIFA World Cup finals, is the only player to have played in the European/South American Cup with both a team from Europe and a team from South America. He triumphed with São Paulo FC in 1992 against FC Barcelona and against AC Milan in 1993, while he was in the Milan team that lost to CA Boca Juniors in 2003.
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