The concept of a true quadruple in football is narrowly defined and, by that measure, exceptionally rare. To qualify a campaign must deliver a club\u2019s top continental trophy, the domestic league, the primary domestic cup and the secondary domestic cup in the same season. In England that would mean winning the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and EFL Cup. One-off honours such as the Community Shield or Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a are excluded, as are tournaments like the FIFA Club World Cup and secondary continental competitions including the Europa League and Europa Conference League.<\/p>\n
Arsenal\u2019s season has produced significant progress across those four competitions. In the Champions League, Mikel Arteta\u2019s side have already booked their place in the last 16, finishing first in their league phase after winning all eight matches. Domestically, Arsenal remain alive in the FA Cup while also reaching the EFL Cup final after seeing off Chelsea 4\u20132 on aggregate in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Those results leave Arsenal well positioned, but history underlines how difficult the task remains. Only one European team has ever completed the strict quadruple: Celtic in 1966\u201367, when Jock Stein\u2019s Lisbon Lions won the European Cup, Scottish First Division, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup, their European campaign capped by a 2\u20131 victory over Inter Milan in the European Cup final at Lisbon\u2019s Est\u00e1dio Nacional. Outside Europe, Santos in 1962, led by Pel\u00e9, completed a recognised quadruple with the Campeonato Paulista, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup.<\/p>\n
There are many examples of clubs winning four or more trophies in a season without meeting the strict definition. Paris Saint-Germain secured domestic trebles in 2014\u201315, 2015\u201316, 2017\u201318 and 2019\u201320 and added the Troph\u00e9e des Champions in those years. When PSG won the Champions League in 2024\u201325 they also won Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France, but the Coupe de la Ligue had already been scrapped. Clubs such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Porto, and teams in South America and Asia including River Plate, S\u00e3o Paulo, Pe\u00f1arol, Al-Muharraq and Al-Wehdat, have enjoyed trophy-laden seasons that still fell short of a true quadruple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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