They are also one of three teams to win the treble and the Intercontinental Cup in the same season / calendar year ; This was achieved in the 1971 – 72 season.

:: 1973, 1995 *( Ajax also won in 1972, however, UEFA only sanctioned the UEFA Super Cup for the first time in 1973 so the 1972 edition was an unofficial one.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

Their first honour outside of Italy was recorded in 1960 – 61 when Roma won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by beating Birmingham City 4 – 2 in the finals.

The 33rd America's Cup Race was won by Golden Gate Yacht Club racing team BMW Oracle, founded by Larry Ellison.

Charlton was an established player by the time the next season was fully underway, which saw United, as current League champions, become the first English team to compete in the European Cup.

He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.

He played in qualifiers for the 1962 World Cup in Chile against Luxembourg and Portugal and was named in the squad for the finals themselves.

In between, there was the pressing matter for Charlton of the 1966 World Cup for which England, as hosts, had not needed to qualify.

Charlton's role was developing from traditional inside-forward to what today would be termed an attacking midfield player, with Ramsey planning to build the team for the 1966 World Cup around him.

This was his 48th goal for his country – his 49th and final goal would follow a month later in a 4 – 0 win over Colombia during a warm-up tour for the 1970 World Cup, designed to get the players adapted to altitude conditions.

Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.

The 1974 Australian America's Cup Challenger was named " Southern Cross " KA 4 representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club and was defeated 4-0 sailing off Newport Rhode Island by " Courageous " US26 sailing for the New York Yacht Club.

The first world championship for curling was limited to men and was known as the " Scotch Cup ", held in Falkirk and Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1959.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

The Ohio Cup was an annual pre-season baseball game, which pitted the Ohio rivals Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.

The winner of the game each year was awarded the Ohio Cup in postgame ceremonies.

The Ohio Cup was a favorite among baseball fans in Columbus, with attendances regularly topping 15, 000.

The BP Crosstown Cup was introduced in 2010 and the White Sox have won the trophy each time.

In 1938 the highest attendance to date at the ground was recorded at over 75, 000 for a FA Cup match against Aston Villa.

In the 1940s, Charlton used a design featuring a robin sitting in a football within a shield, sometimes with the letters CAFC in the four quarters of the shield, which was worn for the 1946 FA Cup Final.

The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders.

Qualifying tournaments were introduced for the second World Cup, where two of the eight places in the finals were awarded to the leading teams in the ICC Trophy.

# World Cup Qualifier: 12 Teams – Top 6 are awarded ODI status and Top 4 qualify for the World Cup.

Advances in technology have never conclusively proved that the ball crossed the line ; on the contrary, in 1995 the Sunday Times reported that image analysis by researchers at Oxford University had concluded that the whole of the ball did not cross the goal-line, and so a goal should not have been awarded ( Computer blows whistle on England's 1966 World Cup win by Adam Jones and John Davison, 23 July 1995 ).

The Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, which later became more famously known as the Stanley Cup, was first awarded in 1893 to the Montreal HC, champions of the AHAC.

The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament.

The first team to be awarded the trophy was Uruguay, the winners of the 1930 World Cup.

* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

The winner of the annual football game between NMU and Michigan Tech is awarded the Miner's Cup.

The winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis, the Rugby School pupil who – according to a popular myth – invented rugby football by picking up the ball during a game.

On 31 July 2007 following Iraq victory of the Asian Cup, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE awarded the Iraq National football team 20 million Dhs, ($ 5. 2 million ) for capturing the Asian Cup for the first time in the country ’ s history.

The Film Festival's principal awards are the Leone d ' Oro ( Golden Lion ), which is awarded to the best film screened in competition at the festival, the Leone d ' Argento ( Silver Lion ) for the Best Director, and the Coppa Volpi ( Volpi Cup ), which is awarded to the best actor and actress.

The match is remembered for England's only World Cup trophy, Geoff Hurst's hat-trick – the only one ever scored in a World Cup Final-and the controversial third goal awarded to England by referee Gottfried Dienst and linesman Tofik Bakhramov.

* Grey Cup, a trophy awarded in the Canadian Football League

Championship points awarded are equal to that of any other Sprint Cup race.

The only other countries to have been awarded a World Cup without previously having competed in a Finals tournament are Italy in 1934 and Qatar in 2022.

Again they would face Italian opposition, Juventus, who had won the Cup Winners ' Cup the previous season and had a team comprising many of Italy's 1982 World Cup winning team, and Michel Platini of France, winner of the Ballon d ' Or ( awarded to European footballer of the year ) in 1983, 1984 and 1985.

The Sudirman Cup, a gender-mixed international team event held once every two years, began in 1989.

A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

The team under Bobby Robson fared better as England reached the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup, losing 2 – 1 to Argentina in a game made famous by two goals by Maradona for very contrasting reasons, before losing every match at the Euro 88 tournament.

The FIFA Women's World Cup was inaugurated in 1991 and has been held every four years since.

The Canada Cup is an international club tournament that is held every year in Toronto, Canada.

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.

The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board and held every four years since 1987.

Stanford has won 103 NCAA championships ( the second-most for a university ), and Stanford's athletic program has won the NACDA Directors ' Cup every year since 1995.

Many of the track themes have been retained throughout the series, including Rainbow Road – the final track of the Special Cup – which has appeared in every Mario Kart console game.

* Beach Cup, Burla Beach Cup A large tournament, in 2006 hosted 70 teams, held every year in September in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy.

Many of the tracks included in Super Circuit are Mario Kart staples including Mario Circuit and Rainbow Road, the final race of the Special Cup in every Mario Kart.

* Mazer Cup International Mead Competition and Tasting Event -- Sponsored by Gotmead. com, this event is held every year in March in Boulder, Colorado.

He covered every FA Cup final between 1949 and 1971, the year of Arsenal's " double ".

Bonetti played in every game of Chelsea's Fairs Cup run the following season, putting in a series of impressive displays against the likes of AS Roma, AC Milan and FC Barcelona, though the side were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals, as they were in the FA Cup for the second consecutive year.

This started a tradition since continued by every subsequent Stanley Cup champion.

The Breeders ' Cup is held at a different track every year ; the 2010 and 2011 editions were held at Churchill Downs, and the 2012 edition will be at Santa Anita Park.

The one of this country's most prominent race is the Grade 1 Japan Cup, a 2, 400 m ( about 1½ mile ) invitational turf race run every November at Tokyo Racecourse for a purse of ¥ 476 million ( about US $ 5. 6 million ), currently the richest turf race in the world.

Richard won the Stanley Cup eight times in Montreal, was captain for four of the five straight cup wins from 1955-56 to 1959-60, won the Hart Trophy in 1947, was elected eight times to the first all-star team and six times to the second all-star team, and played in every National Hockey League All-Star Game from 1947 to 1959.

" Subsequently, the Cup races were conducted, usually every 3-4 years, based on a challenge issued by one club to the current Cup holder, which till 1983 was the NYYC.