Paris Saint-Germain claimed the Trophee des Champions for a fourth season in a row as they destroyed Lyon 4-1 in Austria.
Les Parisiens' comfortable triumph over their French counterparts capped a memorable day for the club, having won the US and Europe International Champions Cup earlier in the day.
PSG raced into a 2-0 lead inside 19 minutes thanks to goals from Javier Pastore and Lucas Moura, before Hatem Ben Arfa bagged his first goal for the club.
Layvin Kurzawa put the result beyond any doubt after he found the net nine minutes after the restart, though Lyon did claw a late goal back through Corentin Tolisso.
The result marks the continuation of a fine pre-season for PSG under new boss Unai Emery, having soundly beaten Inter, Real Madrid and Leicester City in the International Champions Cup, and they appear to be in great shape ahead of Friday's Ligue 1 opener at Bastia.
Lyon, who finished 31 points behind PSG last term, made a decent start and Nabil Fekir rightly had a goal ruled out for offside after Kevin Trapp had spilled Jeremy Morel's initial effort.
But PSG were quickly in full stride and it was soon 1-0 after Kurzawa was afforded too much space down the left and his superb cross was finished with a cool side-footed volley from Pastore.
The impressive Di Maria almost made it 2-0 with an audacious effort from near the halfway line that Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes clawed away.
It was a short respite, though, as Pastore squared for Lucas to bundle into the bottom right-hand corner following a tangle of legs with Morel.
Di Maria's luck was out again when he attempted a delightful chip that had enough height to beat Lopes but cruelly rebounded off the crossbar.
A deserved third arrived in the 34th minute as a sharp move led to Di Maria teeing up Ben Arfa to emphatically hammer his shot into the top-left corner from near the penalty spot.
Pastore sprung the offside trap shortly after the break, but selfishly tried to chip Lopes with Ben Arfa wide open to his right.
But by 54 minutes it was 4-0 as Pastore caught a static Lyon defence cold with a quick free-kick and full-back Kurzawa showed the composure of a striker to slide his effort past Lopes.
Lyon showed a couple of signs of life with Maxwel Cornet's curling effort bringing out the best in Trapp, before Tolisso headed home Christophe Jallet's superb crossed volley from the right-hand side with three minutes remaining.
PSG were well out of sight by that time, though, as they beat Lyon in the French Super Cup for the second season on the spin to maintain Emery's fine start to life in charge of the club.
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