The
UEFA Intertoto Cup was a European
association football competition, held during the summer for the leading European clubs that have failed to qualify for either the
UEFA Champions League or the
UEFA Cup. It provided "an alternative qualifying route into the UEFA Cup".[1] The tournament did not come under official
UEFA sanction until
1995, and was abolished in 2009.[2]
The first tournament provided two winners, both of whom therefore qualified for the UEFA Cup in the
1995–96 season, with Frenchman
Jacky Duguépéroux and Yugoslavian
Slavoljub Muslin as the winning managers. From the
following season to the
2005 contest, three teams were awarded Intertoto Cups, with French managers being the most successful.[3] In
2006, the format was modified to allow eleven clubs to qualify for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, the Intertoto Cup being awarded to the team that progressed the furthest in the competition.[4] Englishman
Glenn Roeder lifted the cup that season as he guided
Newcastle United to the last 16 of the
2006–07 UEFA Cup. German
Jupp Heynckes is the only man to have won the cup twice and did so in consecutive years (
2003 and
2004) with German club
Schalke 04.
The
UEFA Intertoto Cup was a European
association football competition, held during the summer for the leading European clubs that have failed to qualify for either the
UEFA Champions League or the
UEFA Cup. It provided "an alternative qualifying route into the UEFA Cup".[1] The tournament did not come under official
UEFA sanction until
1995, and was abolished in 2009.[2]
The first tournament provided two winners, both of whom therefore qualified for the UEFA Cup in the
1995–96 season, with Frenchman
Jacky Duguépéroux and Yugoslavian
Slavoljub Muslin as the winning managers. From the
following season to the
2005 contest, three teams were awarded Intertoto Cups, with French managers being the most successful.[3] In
2006, the format was modified to allow eleven clubs to qualify for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, the Intertoto Cup being awarded to the team that progressed the furthest in the competition.[4] Englishman
Glenn Roeder lifted the cup that season as he guided
Newcastle United to the last 16 of the
2006–07 UEFA Cup. German
Jupp Heynckes is the only man to have won the cup twice and did so in consecutive years (
2003 and
2004) with German club
Schalke 04.