The term sextuple is mainly used in the sports press for winning six important national and international titles in sport, especially in football, within one season or calendar year.
During a football season, clubs typically take part in a number of national competitions, such as in a league and one or more cup competitions, and sometimes in continental competitions. Winning multiple competitions is considered a particularly significant achievement. Doubles and triples tend to be long-remembered achievements, but they occur with a certain frequency, while winning four or more trophies in a season is much less common. In the 2010s, the terms quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple were sometimes used to refer to four, five, and six trophies in a single season.[1][2]
In terms of football, the sextuple means that if a club can win six official competitions in a row, it has to do so. The performance can be achieved through victories in the same season or calendar year.[3]
Currently, only the clubs from the top-flight leagues in Africa, Europe or South America can have a chance to achieve a sextuple, due to the presence of continental super cups in those continents.
Sextuple winners
Pep Guardiola, former Barcelona manager, who achieved the first international sextuple in 2009.
On 11 February 2021, just minutes after Bayern Munich won the FIFA Club World Cup final to secure a sextuple, former Bayern coach Pep Guardiola jokingly challenged the side to a match against previous sextuple winners Barcelona, a team that was managed by Guardiola at the time. As these two sides were the only ones to have achieved a sextuple in football history, he suggested that they could play for a seventh title.[10]
It is technically possible for certain teams to win seven trophies in a single calendar year; for example, a top-flight English club can win the standard six trophies that are of similar calibre and format to the ones achieved in previous sextuples, but can also add a seventh title by winning the EFL Cup, a secondary national cup in England which does not exist in the many other countries that have only one domestic cup competition.
In 2025, there was an opportunity for any European, African or South American top division league club to win seven trophies supplemented by a domestic cup and super cup, as well as an octuple for top-flight clubs in some countries (such as England, Argentina, or Egypt), if they win a FIFA Intercontinental Cup in the same year in which the revamped FIFA Club World Cup took place.[11]
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