So what's the deal with the European Winner's Cup? What teams participate?

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The three traditional European cups are the Champions League, the European Union Cup, and the European Cup Winners' Cup, which are played like European leagues. They are all cross-annual tournaments, once a year, that is, from the end of July of the first year to start (including the team to participate in the Champions League qualifying rounds and the International Toto Cup, because the winner of the Toto Cup to participate in the League Cup) to the end of the second year in May, the European Cup of Excellence now no longer exists, in 1999 Lazio to win the last championship, has become extinct, the European Cup of Excellence soccer tournament (CUP WINNERS' CUP), the European Cup of Excellence (CUP WINNERS' CUP). CUP WINNERS' CUP)

Its predecessor was the "Double Cup" created by the England United Central European Cup Committee in 1960, with 10 teams participating in the inaugural Double Cup.

In 1961, UEFA took over the Dual Cup and officially named it the European Winners' Cup, in which 32 teams had to be the Cup winners of the previous year, and the tournament was organized as a two-legged knockout tournament with home and away matches.

From 1995, the number of teams increased to 48, 16 teams directly to participate in the first round of the competition, the remaining 32 teams to play against each other, the winning 16 teams to enter the first round.

From the 1999-2000 season, UEFA incorporated the Winners' Cup into the League Cup.

Europe's Super Cup is a competition that pits the Champions League winner against the League Cup winner