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The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/StealthMan375 on 2024-12-18 12:27:22+00:00.
Real Madrid is the current Unofficial Football Club Championship holder.
What is this “competition”?
Let’s imagine football now follows boxing rules: in order to be the champion, you need to beat the current champion. Meaning that the current title holder will play their matches normally to defend their title, until losing to another team and consequently losing posession of the trophy/“belt”, and so on…
By beating Atalanta last week (who first brought the belt to Italy by beating Leverkusen, who themselves got it during their unbeaten run), Real Madrid became the current owner of the “belt”. And now, they will defend their title against a non-European team, Pachuca, for the first time since 1871.