Challengers Cup

The Challenger's Cup is an international football club competition organized by the IFCF involving the three highest-placed teams from each association which did not qualify for the Champions' League. Teams that are eliminated from the Champions' League prior to its knockout phase also enter the Challenger's Cup at the subsequent round.

The competition was conceived as a successor to the UICA Globe Cup. The inaugural Challenger's Cup, in the season that would have seen the 72nd Globe Cup, saw Malabon SC become the first Fleftic club to win a major international club title as they beat Port Sebastian 1-0 at Macquarie Docklands in Latrobe.

After a qualifying phase, 48 teams contest the group stage. Divided into groups of four, they play a home-and-away round robin with the top two teams of each group advancing to the first knockout round of 32 teams, where they are joined by teams finishing third in the group stage of the Champions' League. The final is a single match played at a venue selected each season at the start of the tournament.