LIGA total! Cup
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The LIGA total!-Cup is a German
Germany
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 football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 competition held since 2009. The competition features four teams of the Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...

, playing two semi-finals and a final. A match takes 60 minutes. The event took place in Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000....

 in 2009 and 2010. and in Mainz
Mainz
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 in 2011.

The competition competes with the DFL-Supercup, and is similar to the Fuji-Cup
Fuji-Cup
The Fuji-Cup was a German football competition held during the summer break from 1986 to 1996 immediately prior to the kick-off the Fußball-Bundesliga season. The competition featured four leading teams, playing two semi-finals and a final in a generally more provincial area of the country...

, that took place between 1987 and 1996 and competed with the DFB-Supercup
DFB-Supercup
The DFL-Supercup is a match between the winner of the Bundesliga championship and the DFB-Pokal. In 1997, this was superseded by a league cup called DFB-Ligapokal. In 2008, although not officially sanctioned by the DFB, the match returned as the T-Home Supercup featuring Bundesliga champions FC...

.

T-Home-Cup 2009

LIGA total! Cup 2010

LIGA total! Cup 2011

Notices

  • 2008 a unofficial Super Cup between double-winner Bayern Munich and German Cup finalist Borussia Dortmund was held in Dortmund
    Dortmund
    Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....

     under the name T-Home Supercup. Dortmund won 2:1 against Munich.
  • The Fuji-Cup
    Fuji-Cup
    The Fuji-Cup was a German football competition held during the summer break from 1986 to 1996 immediately prior to the kick-off the Fußball-Bundesliga season. The competition featured four leading teams, playing two semi-finals and a final in a generally more provincial area of the country...

     (1987–1996) and the DFB-Supercup
    DFB-Supercup
    The DFL-Supercup is a match between the winner of the Bundesliga championship and the DFB-Pokal. In 1997, this was superseded by a league cup called DFB-Ligapokal. In 2008, although not officially sanctioned by the DFB, the match returned as the T-Home Supercup featuring Bundesliga champions FC...

     (1987–1996) were replaced by the DFB-Ligapokal
    DFB-Ligapokal
    The DFB-Ligapokal, or German League Cup, was a German football competition that took place before the start of the Bundesliga season, featuring the top five teams of the previous Fußball-Bundesliga season and the winners of the DFB-Pokal in Germany...

    , later DFL-Ligapokal. After the DFL-Ligapokal was retired in 2008, the Super Cup was re-established unofficially in 2008 (T-Home-Super Cup) and 2009 (Volkswagen Super Cup) and officially in 2010 under the name DFL-Supercup. So the LIGA total! Cup could be seen as a successor of the Fuji-Cup.
  • The 2010 LIGA total! Cup Final was the same match as the 2010 German Supercup Final. This match was won by Bayern Munich
  • The 2011 LIGA total! Cup Final was the same match as the opening game in the 2011 German Bundesliga
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