2018 Supercoppa Italiana
football match
The 2018 Supercoppa Italiana was the 31st edition of the Supercoppa Italiana. It was played on 16 January 2019 at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. With Juventus winning both the 2017–18 Serie A championship and the 2017–18 Coppa Italia, the game was played between Juventus and the 2017–18 Coppa Italia runners-up, AC Milan.
This was the third meeting between the two teams in the Supercoppa Italiana. Juventus won the first meeting in 2003 in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States on penalties, and AC Milan returned the favour, also on penalties in 2016 in Qatar. Both teams before the match had a record seven Supercoppa titles. Saudi Arabia became the sixth different country to host a Supercoppa Italiana. Juventus won the match, with the only goal coming from Cristiano Ronaldo in the 61st minute, and became the first club to win eight Supercoppa Italiana titles.
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On June 6, 2018, it was announced that the match would take place in January 2019 in Saudi Arabia as part of an agreement to play three of the next five editions of the tournament in that territory. This was the tenth time that the Supercoppa Italiana was held outside Italy after the editions of 1993, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
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