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)
“Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another—secret and passionate and intense—which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)