Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup

The Intercontinental Cup is a roller hockey competition organized by World Skate and contested between the World Skate Africa, World Skate Asia and World Skate Oceania, World Skate Europe and World Skate America champions clubs in title.[1]

Roller Hockey Intercontinental Cup
Founded1985
RegionInternational (World Skate)
Number of teams4
Current champions FC Barcelona
(5th title)
Most successful team(s) FC Barcelona
HC Liceo
(5 titles each)
2018 Intercontinental Cup

History

The Intercontinental Cup was established in 1985 and was organized by FIRS.

In 2006, the then-CIRH (Comité Internationale de Rink-Hockey) tried to establish a World Club Championship, but that competition was quickly discontinued in favor of the Intercontinental Cup.

In 2017, the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) merged with the International Skateboarding Federation (ISF) to form World Skate, which organized the 2017 Intercontinental Cup played in a Final Four format by the 2016 and 2017 CERH European League champions, Benfica and Reus, and the 2016 and 2017 CSP South American Club Championship/CPP Pan-American Club Championship winners, Andes Talleres and Concepción, with Benfica facing Andes Talleres and Reus facing Concepción.

In 2018, the World Skate created the women's tournament, played in a Final Four formats by the four finalists of Europe and America.

Winners
2007 trophy
Year Location Winner Score Runners-up
1985 Rawson, San Juan UVT 5–3, 5–4 FC Barcelona
1987 A Coruña HC Liceo 7–3, 17–2 Concepción PC
1989 A Coruña HC Liceo 11–4, 8–2 CD Unión Estudiantil
1992 Sertãozinho OC Barcelos 2–1, 7–3 Sertãozinho HC
1993 A Coruña HC Liceo 7–5, 11–3 CD Unión Estudiantil
1998 Barcelona FC Barcelona 13–1 UVT
2004 Santiago de Compostela HC Liceo 9–1, 10–2 CD Unión Estudiantil
2006 Alcoy FC Barcelona 8–3 Olimpia PC
2007 Follonica Follonica Hockey 4–2 Concepción PC
2008 Molins de Rei FC Barcelona 3–1 Concepción PC
2010 Reus Reus Deportiu 4–1 Club Petroleros YPF
2012 A Coruña HC Liceo 6–4 CA Huracán
2013 Torres Novas SL Benfica 10–3 SC Recife
2014 Barcelona FC Barcelona 6–2 Club Petroleros YPF
2017 Reus SL Benfica 5–3 Reus Deportiu
2018 San Juan FC Barcelona 5–4 Porto

Statistics

Winners by team
Team Winners Runners-up
Barcelona 5 (1998, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2018) 1 (1985)
HC Liceo 5 (1987, 1989, 1993, 2004, 2012) 0
Benfica 2 (2013, 2017) 0
UVT 1 (1986) 1 (1998)
Reus Deportiu 1 (2010) 1 (2017)
OC Barcelos 1 (1992) 0
Follonica Hockey 1 (2007) 0
Concepción PC 0 3 (1987, 2007, 2008)
CD Unión Estudiantil 0 3 (1989, 1993, 2004)
Club Petroleros YPF 0 2 (2010, 2014)
CA Huracán 0 1 (2012)
Sertãozinho HC 0 1 (1992)
Olimpia PC 0 1 (2006)
SC Recife 0 1 (2013)
Porto 0 1 (2018)

Winners by country
Country Winners Runners-up
Spain 11 2
Portugal 3 2
Argentina 1 11
Italy 1 0
Brazil 0 2
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References
  1. http://www.worldskate.org/rink-hockey/about/regulations.html?download=2753:17-official-regulation-male-intercontinental-clubs-cup
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