UEFA Super Cup: Date, venue, how to watch and history

The UEFA Super Cup is an annual fixture contested between the winners of the previous season's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

It was previously played between the holders of the UEFA Champions League/European Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup, before the UEFA Cup - now UEFA Europa League - took the place of the Cup Winners' Cup when that competition was abolished in 1999.

The first match was played in 1973 and the 2024 edition saw Real Madrid lift the trophy for the sixth time, overcoming Atalanta 2-0 in Warsaw.

UEFA Super Cup date

The UEFA Super Cup is traditionally held in August as a curtain raiser to the new European season.

The 2025 edition is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 13th August 2025.

UEFA Super Cup venue

The 2025 UEFA Super Cup will be staged at the Bluenergy Stadium in Udine, Italy.

The home of Serie A outfit Udinese, the Bluenergy Stadium has an official capacity of 25,132.

UEFA Super Cup how to watch

The 2024 UEFA Super Cup tie between Real Madrid and Atalanta was screened live on TNT Sports, with the 2025 edition expected to be available to watch via the same network.

UEFA Super Cup history

The UEFA Super Cup will be held for the 50th time in 2025.

Ajax were the competition's first official winners, beating AC Milan 6-1 on aggregate over two legs. The record books show that the Dutch giants lifted the trophy in 1973 but both legs actually took place in 1974 - this marks the only time the competition has been held midway through a season. 

The match has been held every year since then bar 1974 (excluding Ajax’s success that January), 1981 and 1985, while it remained a two-legged competition until 1998.

UEFA Super Cup previous winners

Real Madrid hold the record for the most UEFA Super Cup wins with a total of six titles to their name.

Despite losing the first UEFA Super Cup, AC Milan have won the competition the second most times with five titles, while they have also been runners-up twice.

Barcelona share that benchmark number of successes, as do Real Madrid, who will become the first team to lift six titles if they beat Atalanta in the 2024 final.

Liverpool are the most successful British team in the competition's history, as they have lifted the trophy on four occasions, most recently in 2019, while Atletico Madrid are three-time winners.

Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Ajax, Anderlecht, Valencia and Juventus are the only other sides to have triumphed on more than once occasion, all doing so twice.

Other British winners include Manchester United (1991), Nottingham Forest (1979), Aston Villa (1982), Aberdeen (1983) and Manchester City (2023).