2005 FIFA Club World Championship

The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup was the second edition of the FIFA Club World Championship, and the first held after by the merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Championship (which had been played in a first edition in 2000).

2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup
FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005
FIFAクラブワールドチャンピオンシップトヨタカップジャパン2005
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Tournament details
Host countryJapan
Dates11 – 18 December
Teams6 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions São Paulo (1st title)
Runners-up Liverpool
Third place Saprissa
Fourth place Al-Ittihad
Tournament statistics
Matches played7
Goals scored19 (2.71 per match)
Attendance261,456 (37,351 per match)
Top scorer(s) Amoroso
Mohammed Noor
Peter Crouch
Álvaro Saborío
(2 goals each)
Best player(s) Rogério Ceni
Fair play award Liverpool

The football tournament was held in Japan from 11 to 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club São Paulo, who defeated English side Liverpool 1–0 in the final.

Background

The 2005 tournament was created as a merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the earlier FIFA Club World Championships. The previous of these had been running as an annual tournament between the champions of Europe and South America since 1960; the latter had undergone just one tournament, the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. The 2001 tournament had been cancelled when FIFA's marketing partner ISL went bankrupt. To celebrate the marriage between the two competitions, a new trophy was introduced by FIFA.

As a result of this merger, the tournament was conceived as being smaller than the original Club World Championship, which had lasted two weeks, yet building on the one game format of the Intercontinental Cup. Six clubs were invited to take part in the tournament, one representing each regional football confederation. The competition's name, which was the simple union between the name of the two previous merging competitions, was evidently too long, and was going to be reduced the following year, becoming the FIFA Club World Cup.

Format

The competition was a knockout tournament so each team played two or three matches. The champions of the four "weaker" confederations played in the quarter-finals; the losers played in a fifth place play-off. The winners were then joined by the European and South American champions in the semi-finals; the losers played in a third place play-off.

The matches were held in Tokyo's National (Olympic) Stadium, Toyota Stadium in Toyota, Aichi, near Nagoya and the International Stadium in Yokohama, where the final was played. For marketing purposes it was known as the FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup.

Qualified teams
Location of teams of the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship.

The following teams qualified during 2005:

Team Confederation Qualification
Enter in the semi-finals
Liverpool UEFA 2004–05 UEFA Champions League winners
São Paulo CONMEBOL 2005 Copa Libertadores winners
Enter in the quarter-finals
Al Ahly CAF 2005 CAF Champions League winners
Al-Ittihad AFC 2005 AFC Champions League winners
Saprissa CONCACAF 2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup winners
Sydney FC OFC 2004–05 Oceania Club Championship winners

Venues

Tokyo, Yokohama and Toyota were the three cities to serve as venues for the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup.

Yokohama Tokyo Toyota
International Stadium Yokohama National Stadium Toyota Stadium
35°30′36.16″N 139°36′22.49″E 35°40′41.00″N 139°42′53.00″E 35°05′04.02″N 137°10′14.02″E
Capacity: 72,327 Capacity: 57,363 Capacity: 45,000
2005 FIFA Club World Championship (Japan)

Squads
Main article: 2005 FIFA Club World Championship squads

Match officials
Confederation Referee Assistant referees
AFC Toru Kamikawa Yoshikazu Hiroshima
Kim Dae-Young
CAF Mohammed Guezzaz Jean Marie Endeng Zogo
CONCACAF Benito Archundia Arturo Velázquez
Héctor Vergara
CONMEBOL Carlos Eugênio Simon
Carlos Chandia		 Cristian Julio
Mario Vargas
UEFA Graham Poll Glenn Turner
Philip Sharp
Alain Sars Frédéric Arnault
Vincent Texier

Bracket
Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                           
  11 December – Tokyo        
  Al-Ittihad  1
14 December – Tokyo
      Al Ahly  0    
  Al-Ittihad  2
Fifth place
      São Paulo  3  
  Al Ahly  1
18 December – Yokohama
  Sydney FC  2  
  São Paulo  1
16 December – Tokyo 12 December – Toyota City
    Liverpool  0
  Sydney FC  0
15 December – Yokohama
    Saprissa  1    
  Saprissa  0
Third place
      Liverpool  3  
  Al-Ittihad  2
  Saprissa  3
18 December – Yokohama

Matches

Quarter-finals
Al-Ittihad 1–0 Al Ahly
Noor  78' Report
Attendance: 28,281
Referee: Graham Poll (England)
Sydney FC 0–1 Saprissa
Report Bolaños  47'
Attendance: 28,538
Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)

Semi-finals
Al-Ittihad 2–3 São Paulo
Noor  33'
Al-Montashari  68'		 Report Amoroso  16', 47'
Rogério Ceni  57' (pen.)
Attendance: 31,510
Referee: Alain Sars (France)
Saprissa 0–3 Liverpool
Report Crouch  3', 58'
Gerrard  32'
Attendance: 43,902

Fifth place play-off
Al Ahly 1–2 Sydney FC
Moteab  45' Report Yorke  35'
Carney  66'
Attendance: 15,951
Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)

Third place play-off
Al-Ittihad 2–3 Saprissa
Kallon  28'
Job  53' (pen.)		 Report Saborío  13', 85' (pen.)
Gómez  89'
Attendance: 46,453

Final
Main article: 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Final
São Paulo 1–0 Liverpool
Mineiro  27' Report
Attendance: 66,821

Scorers

There were 19 goals scored in 7 matches, for an average of 2.71 goals per match.

2 goals

1 goal

Awards
Golden Ball Silver Ball Bronze Ball
Rogério Ceni
(São Paulo)		 Steven Gerrard
(Liverpool)		 Christian Bolaños
(Saprissa)
Player of the Final
Rogério Ceni (São Paulo)
Fair play
Liverpool

Tournament round-up

Final standings
Pos Team Confederation Pld W D L GF GA GD
1 São Paulo CONMEBOL 220042+2
2 Liverpool UEFA 210131+2
3 Saprissa CONCACAF 320145−1
4 Al-Ittihad AFC 310256−1
5 Sydney FC OFC 2101220
6 Al Ahly CAF 200213−2

Views on the tournament

The tournament was quite well received, although some commentators have stated that, excluding São Paulo and Liverpool, the quality of football was quite poor leading to a view that it might have been better retaining the two continent format of the European/South American Cup.[1]

References
  1. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SPORT/football/12/18/soccer.japan/
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