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The 2013 UEFA Super Cup was the 38th UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.
The UEFA Super Cup is an annual association football match contested between the winners of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.Established in 1972, it was contested between the winners of the European Cup (renamed the UEFA Champions League in 1993) and the European/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup until 1999, when the latter was discontinued and merged with the UEFA Cup (renamed the ...
In the 2009–10 season, the UEFA Cup was renamed the UEFA Europa League and the winners of this competition would continue to face the winners of the Champions League in the UEFA Super Cup. In 2013, Chelsea became the first club to contest the Super Cup as holders of all three UEFA club honours, having entered as holders of the Cup Winners ...
Chelsea's victory in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history qualified them for the season's UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, although through finishing third in their Champions League group Chelsea competed in the UEFA Europa League for the first time since the 2002–03 season – then known as the UEFA Cup.
2013 UEFA Super Cup: Bayern Munich: 1st — UAFA (Arab States) 2012–13 UAFA Club Cup: USM Alger: 1st — 2012–13 GCC Champions League: Baniyas: 1st — FIFA (Worldwide) 2013 FIFA Club World Cup: Bayern Munich: 1st —
Bayern were also in the DFL-Supercup and UEFA Super Cup. They lost to Borussia Dortmund in the DFL-Supercup and defeated Chelsea in a shoot–out in the UEFA Super Cup, making 2013 the most successful year in club history by number of tournaments won (five).
In their final game before their UEFA Super Cup clash with Bayern Munich, Chelsea were held by Manchester United to a dour 0–0 draw at Old Trafford on 26 August. Just before Chelsea were drawn in the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League group stage, they announced the signing of Samuel Eto'o from Anzhi in a deal believed to be around £2 million.
The Cardiff City Stadium was announced as the venue of the Super Cup at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 30 June 2012. [6] This was the first UEFA Super Cup hosted in Wales. The Cardiff City Stadium opened in July 2009 on the site of the Cardiff Athletics Stadium. It is the home stadium of Cardiff City. The stadium had a capacity of ...