League & League Cup Double
A rarer, and less coveted, domestic double is that of winning the league championship and the League Cup. In many leagues this can not be done as there is no second domestic cup competition (as in Italy and the Netherlands) or it has been disbanded (such as in Spain and Denmark). The format of league cups and the number of participating teams can vary enormously from one country to another. In the case of Germany, it should be noted that the DFB-Ligapokal was played in the summer months prior to the Bundesliga and therefore was won in the preceding calendar year to the title win.
| Club | Country | Number won |
Year(s) won | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rangers | Scotland | 17 | 1947, 1948, 1961, 1964, 1976, 1978, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011 | |
| Celtic | Scotland | 8 | 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1998, 2001, 2006 | As part of the Quadruple with the European Cup and Scottish Cup in 1966-67 |
| Bayern Munich | Germany | 5 | 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008 | |
| Liverpool | England | 3 | 1982, 1983, 1984 | As part of the Treble with the European Cup in 1983-84 |
| Maccabi Haifa | Israel | 2 | 1994, 2006 | |
| The New Saints | Wales | 2 | 2006, 2010 | |
| Beitar Jerusalem | Israel | 1 | 1998 | |
| Ironi Kiryat Shmona | Israel | 1 | 2012 | |
| Hearts | Scotland | 1 | 1960 | |
| Nottingham Forest | England | 1 | 1978 | |
| Chelsea | England | 1 | 2005 | |
| Manchester United | England | 1 | 2009 | |
| Anderlecht | Belgium | 1 | 2001 | |
| Wisła Kraków | Poland | 1 | 2001 | |
| Legia Warsaw | Poland | 1 | 2002 | |
| Brøndby IF | Denmark | 1 | 2005 | Part of a domestic treble |
| Bordeaux | France | 1 | 2009 | |
| Marseille | France | 1 | 2010 | |
| Benfica | Portugal | 1 | 2010 |
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Famous quotes containing the words league, cup and/or double:
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward the Light Brigade!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)