Madrid lifts its twelfth Super Cup, the third in five years

EI Real Madrid won the first trophy of the season by defeating Athletic Club in the Super Cup final played in Riyadh. For the Whites, this new trophy marks their twelfth Super Cup and is only one behind Barcelona, ​​which, with 13, is the entity that has won the most Super Cups since its creation in 1982. The Whites have won three titles in the last five editions, which It has made it possible for him to cut distances with the azulgrana.

Precisely, azulgranas and madridistas are the teams that have won the most titles in this competition. The Blaugrana have 13 titles to 12 for the whites. Curiously, of those 12 titles, six (just half) have been won by the Blaugrana. The first Super Cup title won by the Whites was in 1988. It was the fifth edition of the tournament. The Whites prevailed in the first game (2-0), with goals from Míchel and Hugo Sánchez, while in the second leg, when Bernd Schuster returned to the Camp Nou, they lost (2-1). A goal from Butragueño shortly after the start of the match blew away Barça’s hopes.

In 1989 Madrid was proclaimed the winner directly after winning the League and the Cup. In 1990, they defeated the azulgrana again after a formidable second leg (4-1), with a goal by Aragón from 45 metres.

The whites did not win another title until 1993, when Alfonso and Zamorano dynamited the azulgrana (3-1 in Madrid and 1-1 at the Camp Nou).

Four more years would pass, when in August 1997 they won the Super Cup again after thrashing Van Gaal’s Barça. The white contras dismantled the azulgrana (4-1). Already in 2001 they beat Zaragoza (1-1 at La Romareda and 3-0, all three by Raúl at the Bernabéu); in 2003 against Mallorca (2-1 defeat on the Balearic island and 3-0 victory in Madrid), and in 2008 against Valencia (3-2 defeat at Mestalla and 4-2 victory at La Castellana). In 2011, Barcelona defeated him in a tie full of altercations and incidents. In 2012, Madrid would get the thorn out of defeating him by double the value of the goals: 3-2 at the Camp Nou and 2-1 at the Bernabéu. After losing to Atlético in 2014, the whites have won the 2017 editions , 2020 and 2022, getting closer to Barça…