Also for the first time in the modern history of the competition an outright winner was. There were only three rounds instead of five and eleven tournament co winners qualified for the second qualifying round of the uefa cup instead of three teams qualifying for the first round proper. The 2006 uefa intertoto cup was the first edition after a major change of the competition format.
The competition was the brainchild of an austrian coach named karl rappan whose switzerland team went down 7 5 to his native country in what remains the highest scoring match in world cup history 66 years after the event. The intertoto cup had none of these. A final a champion and a trophy these seem like three core ingredients for a cup knockout tournament in any sport.
Visit espn to view the season uefa intertoto cup table. The 1996 uefa intertoto cup finals were won by silkeborg en avant guingamp and karlsruher sc all three teams advanced to the uefa cup no english team took part in support of tottenham hotspur and wimbledon initially getting banned by uefa from european competition after both fielded under strength sides in the previous year s competition. The country that managed the most trophies was france with 12 while spain has four intertoto champions villarreal malaga celta vigo and valencia and one international football cup winner.
Teams who originally would have entered the. The uefa intertoto cup abbreviated as ui cup originally called the international football cup was a summer football competition for european clubs that had not qualified for one of the major uefa competitions the champions league the uefa cup and until 1999 the cup winners cup the competition was discontinued after the 2008 tournament.
