Sextuple (association football)

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The term sextuple is mainly used in the sports press for winning six important national and international titles in sport, especially in football, within one season or calendar year.

During a football season, clubs typically take part in a number of national competitions, such as in a league and one or more cup competitions, and sometimes in continental competitions. Winning multiple competitions is considered a particularly significant achievement. Doubles and triples tend to be long-remembered achievements, but they occur with a certain frequency, while winning four or more trophies in a season is much less common. In the 2010s, the terms quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple were sometimes used to refer to four, five, and six trophies in a single season.[1][2]

The six trophies won by Barcelona in 2009 on display in the Camp Nou museum.
The six trophies won by Bayern Munich in 2020 exhibited in the Allianz Arena.

Sextuple in continental football

In terms of football, the sextuple means that a club wins six official competitions in the same season or calendar year.

The national titles in a continent are:

The international titles in a continent are:

The international titles worldwide are:

Currently, only the clubs from the top-flight leagues in Africa, Europe or South America can have a chance to achieve a sextuple due to the presence of continental super cups in those continents.

Sextuple winners

Currently, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain are the three teams that have achieved the sextuple. Each of them won six titles during an annual season. Barcelona and Bayern won the FIFA Club World Cup and PSG won the FIFA Intercontinental Cup as annual world champions title.

Pep Guardiola, former Barcelona manager, who achieved the first international sextuple in 2009.

2009: Spain Barcelona

Main articles: 2008–09 FC Barcelona season and 2009–10 FC Barcelona season

Coach: Spain Pep Guardiola

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Year Titles Record / final score
2009 La Liga 87 points (27–6–5)
Copa del Rey 4–1 vs Athletic Bilbao
UEFA Champions League 2–0 vs England Manchester United
Supercopa de España 5–1 vs Athletic Bilbao (agg.)
UEFA Super Cup 1–0 vs Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk
FIFA Club World Cup 2–1 vs Argentina Estudiantes (a.e.t.)
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Hansi Flick, former Bayern Munich manager, who achieved the second international sextuple in 2020.

2020: Germany Bayern Munich

Main articles: 2019–20 FC Bayern Munich season and 2020–21 FC Bayern Munich season

Coach: Germany Hansi Flick

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Year Titles Record / final score
2020 Bundesliga 82 points (26–4–4)
DFB-Pokal 4–2 vs Bayer Leverkusen
UEFA Champions League 1–0 vs France Paris Saint-Germain
UEFA Super Cup 2–1 vs Spain Sevilla (a.e.t.)
DFL-Supercup 3–2 vs Borussia Dortmund
FIFA Club World Cup[a] 1–0 vs Mexico UANL
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Luis Enrique, current Paris Saint-Germain manager, who achieved the third international sextuple in 2025.

2025: France Paris Saint-Germain

Main articles: 2024–25 Paris Saint-Germain FC season and 2025–26 Paris Saint-Germain FC season

Coach: Spain Luis Enrique

More information Year, Titles ...
Year Titles Record / final score
2025 Ligue 1 84 points (26–6–2)
Coupe de France 3–0 vs Reims
UEFA Champions League 5–0 vs Italy Inter Milan
UEFA Super Cup 2–2 vs England Tottenham Hotspur (4–3 p)
FIFA Intercontinental Cup 1–1 vs Brazil Flamengo (2–1 p)
Trophée des Champions[b] 2–2 vs Marseille (4–1 p)
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Missed sextuples

The following teams could not win the sixth official competition after a quintuple and thus missed out on the sextuple:

Seventh and eighth title

On 11 February 2021, just minutes after Bayern Munich won the FIFA Club World Cup final to secure a sextuple, former Bayern coach Pep Guardiola jokingly challenged the side to a match against previous sextuple winners Barcelona, a team that was managed by Guardiola at the time. As these two sides were the only ones to have achieved a sextuple in football history, he suggested that they could play for a seventh title.[9]

It is technically possible for certain teams to win seven trophies in a single calendar year; for example, a top-flight English club can win the standard six trophies that are of similar calibre and format to the ones achieved in previous sextuples, but can also add a seventh title by winning the EFL Cup, a secondary national cup, which does not exist in most countries, where they only have one domestic cup competition.

Since 2025, there is an opportunity for any European, African or South American top division league club to win seven trophies, as well as eight trophies for top-flight clubs in some countries (such as England, Egypt, Japan, Portugal, and Scotland, where a league cup exists), if they win the FIFA Intercontinental Cup in the same year in which the revamped quadrennial FIFA Club World Cup took place.[10]

Paris Saint-Germain missed the opportunity to achieve the feat in 2025; they won the Ligue 1, the Coupe de France, and the Champions League, but then lost the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup final to Chelsea before securing the UEFA Super Cup, the FIFA Intercontinental Cup, and the Trophée des Champions.

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Notes

  1. [a]
    Played in February 2021, but still considered to be part of the 2020 football season.
  2. [b]
    Played in January 2026, but still considered to be part of the 2025 football season. They also won the 2024 Trophée des Champions, which was played in the year 2025.

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