The 2000 UEFA Super Cup was a

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match played on 25 August 2000 between

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of Spain and Galatasaray of Turkey. Real Madrid qualified by beating

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

in the 2000 UEFA Champions League Final, while Galatasaray had made it to the Super Cup after beating

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in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final. Galatasaray won the match 2–1, both goals scored by Mário Jardel, the latter a

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.Report
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). Until 1999, it was contested by the winners of the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...

and the winners of the

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, but the Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued after the 1998–99 season.

Venue

The

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Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

has been the venue for the UEFA Super Cup since 1998. It was built in 1985, and is also the home of

AS Monaco Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club SA, commonly referred to as AS Monaco () or Monaco, is a professional football club based in Monaco that is member of French Football Federation (FFF) and competes in Ligue 1, the top tier of Frenc ...

, who play in the French league system.

Teams

Match

Details

References

External links

2000 UEFA Super Cup
at UEFA.com {{DEFAULTSORT:2000 Uefa Super Cup Super Cup

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UEFA Super Cup 2000 The 2000 UEFA Super Cup was a football match played on 25 August 2000 between Real Madrid of Spain and Galatasaray of Turkey. Real Madrid qualified by beating Valencia in the 2000 UEFA Champions League Final, while Galatasaray had made it to the Su ...

UEFA Super Cup

Supercup A super cup is a competition, usually but not exclusively in association football, which often forms the 'curtain raiser' to a season, and typically involves only two teams who have qualified through success in other competitions during the pre ...