Globe Cup

The Globe Cup was a football competition organized by UICA involving the three highest-placed teams from each association which did not qualify for the Champions’ Cup. Teams eliminated from the Champions’ Cup over the course of the season also entered the Globe Cup. The tournament was created by the Cafundelense company Globo Multimedia to run alongside the fourth Champions’ Cup. Following the demise of UICA after the tournament's 70th edition, it was succeeded by the IFCF Challengers Cup.

Format
The defending champion (if it did not qualify for the Champions’ Cup) and the top-seeded team from each of the top six associations in the UICA coëfficient ranking entered the 48-team group stage directly, with the remaining places filled by teams which have advanced through the series of three preliminary rounds, the playoff round, and the qualifying round, all of which are played as home-and-away ties. Teams eliminated from the Champions’ Cup prior to the group stage enter the next round of the Globe Cup—e.g., teams eliminated in the first preliminary round of the Champions’ Cup enter the second preliminary round of the Globe Cup. The group stage is composed of twelve groups of four, each playing a double round-robin, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the knockout stage, joined by the eight teams finishing third in their Champions’ Cup groups to complete a field of thirty-two. The knockout ties are played home and away until the final, which was a single match at a neutral site chosen by the UICA Selection Committee.

Globe Cup finals
Until Globe Cup 29, the semifinalist which lost to the eventual winner of the competition was awarded third place. Since Globe Cup 30, there has been no third place award.