Fuji-Cup

The Fuji-Cup (played in 1986 as the Casio-Cup) was an unofficial preparatory German football tournament held from 1986 to 1996 in the summer break immediately before the start of the Bundesliga season in smaller towns in the "Football Province". The competition, which consisted of two semi-finals followed by a match for 3rd place and a final, featured the four leading teams from the previous Bundesliga season.

Also before the start of the new Bundesliga season, the official DFB-Supercup was played between the Bundesliga winners and the DFB-Pokal winners of the previous season. Since the Fuji-Cup advanced over time into a dimension that the official DFB-Supercup of the DFB had not yet reached, the DFB initially introduced a clause that stipulated that DFB-Pokal winners and Bundesliga winners would not be invited to the Fuji-Cup tournament at the same time in order to avoid an early DFB-Supercup match.

For the 1997 season, the Fuji-Cup and DFB-Supercup were finally replaced by the newly created and official DFB-Ligapokal, which was played until 2007. Since 2009, the Telekom Cup (2009 as the T-Home Cup, 2010–2012 as the LIGA total! Cup), which is also unofficial, has been held as a similar tournament to Fuji-Cup.

The record winner is FC Bayern Munich with a total of five victories in the Casio-Cup and Fuji-Cup.

Namesake

The tournaments were supported by large and well-known manufacturers of technology from Japan at the time, namely (once) Casio and Fuji.

Winners

Casio-Cup 1986 ^{[1] [2]}

	Semifinals				Final (in Mönchengladbach)
	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2
	FC Bayern Munich	5
					SV Werder Bremen	2 (3)
					FC Bayern Munich	2 (4)
	SV Werder Bremen	4
	Hamburger SV	0
					Third Place
					Borussia Mönchengladbach	2
					Hamburger SV	0

Fuji-Cup 1987 ^{[3] [4]}

	Semifinals				Final (in Kaiserslautern)
	1. FC Köln	1
	FC Bayern Munich	2
					FC Bayern Munich	5
					Hamburger SV	1
	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2
	Hamburger SV	3
					Third Place
					1. FC Köln	3
					1. FC Kaiserslautern	1

Fuji-Cup 1988 ^[5]

	Semifinals				Final (in Augsburg)
	1. FC Nürnberg	0
	FC Bayern Munich	2
					FC Bayern Munich	3
					Borussia Mönchengladbach	0
	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2 (5)
	SV Werder Bremen	2 (4)
					Third Place
					1. FC Nürnberg	1 (4)
					SV Werder Bremen	1 (2)

Fuji-Cup 1989

	Semifinals				Final(in Würzburg) [6]
	VfB Stuttgart	1 (4)
	FC Bayern Munich	1 (3)
					VfB Stuttgart	1 (5)
					SV Werder Bremen	1 (3)
	1. FC Köln	1
	SV Werder Bremen	3
					Third Place
					FC Bayern Munich	2
					1. FC Köln	0

Fuji-Cup 1990

	Semifinals				Final (in Lüdenscheid) [6]
	Borussia Dortmund	0 (6)
	FC Bayern Munich	0 (4)
					SV Werder Bremen	0 (6)
					BV Borussia Dortmund	0 (5)
	SV Werder Bremen	2
	1. FC Köln	0
					Third Place
					FC Bayern Munich	4
					1. FC Köln	1

Fuji-Cup 1991

	Semifinals				Final (in Passau)
	BV Borussia Dortmund	2
	FC Bayern Munich	0
					BV Borussia Dortmund	4
					SV Werder Bremen	1
	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1
	SV Werder Bremen	2
					Third Place
					FC Bayern Munich	2 (5)
					1. FC Kaiserslautern	2 (3)

Fuji-Cup 1992

	Semifinals				Final (in Trier) [7]
	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1 (5)
	BV Borussia Dortmund	1 (4)
					SG Eintracht Frankfurt	1 (5)
					1. FC Kaiserslautern	1 (3)
	SG Eintracht Frankfurt	2
	VfB Stuttgart	0
					Third Place
					BV Borussia Dortmund	2
					VfB Stuttgart	0

Fuji-Cup 1993

	Semifinals				Final (in Koblenz)
	BV Borussia Dortmund	0 (5)
	SG Eintracht Frankfurt	0 (4)
					BV Borussia Dortmund	3
					FC Bayern Munich	2
	FC Bayern Munich	2
	SV Werder Bremen	1
					Third Place
					SV Werder Bremen	3
					SG Eintracht Frankfurt	1

Fuji-Cup 1994

	Semifinals				Final (in Koblenz) [8]
	SG Eintracht Frankfurt	1
	BV Borussia Dortmund	0
					FC Bayern Munich	0 (5)
					SG Eintracht Frankfurt	0 (4)
	FC Bayern Munich	1
	VfB Stuttgart	0
					Third Place
					BV Borussia Dortmund	1 (5)
					VfB Stuttgart	1 (3)

Fuji-Cup 1995

	Semifinals				Final (in Koblenz) [9]
	BV Borussia Dortmund	3
	1. FC Kaiserslautern	0
					FC Bayern Munich	3
					BV Borussia Dortmund	2
	FC Bayern Munich	1 (7)
	SV Werder Bremen	1 (6)
					Third Place
					1. FC Kaiserslautern	2
					SV Werder Bremen	1

Fuji-Cup 1996

	Semifinals				Final (in Koblenz)
	FC Schalke 04	3
	BV Borussia Dortmund	1
					FC Schalke 04	2 (4)
					FC Bayern Munich	2 (3)
	FC Bayern Munich	4
	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0
					Third Place
					Borussia Mönchengladbach	1
					BV Borussia Dortmund	0

Championships by team

Team	First Place	Second Place	Third Place	Fourth Place
FC Bayern Munich	1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995	1993, 1996	1989, 1990, 1991	-
Borussia Dortmund	1991, 1993	1990, 1995	1992, 1994	1996
SV Werder Bremen	1990	1986, 1989, 1991	1993	1988, 1995
Eintracht Frankfurt	1992	1994		1993
VfB Stuttgart	1989	-	-	1992, 1994
Schalke 04	1996	-	-	-
1. FC Kaiserslautern	-	1992	1995	1987, 1991
Borussia Mönchengladbach	-	1988	1986, 1996	-
Hamburger SV	-	1987	-	1986
1. FC Köln	-	-	1987	1989, 1990
1. FC Nürnberg	-	-	1988	-

References

1. kicker Sportmagazin Nr. 61 vom 24. Juli 1986, S. 6f
2. kicker Sportmagazin Nr. 62 vom 28. Juli 1986, S. 20f
3. kicker Sportmagazin Nr. 60 vom 20. Juli 1987, S. 26f
4. kicker Sportmagazin Nr. 61 vom 23. Juli 1986, S. 8
5. kicker Sportmagazin Nr. 58 vom 18. Juli 1988, S. 22
6. Fuji-Cup bei rsssf.org
7. Fuji-Cup 1992
8. Fuji-Cup 1994 in Koblenz
9. http://www.raresoccervideos.com/bundesliga/bundesliga90s/bundesliga90s.htm ^{[ dead link ]}