2013 FIFA Confederations Cup

2013 FIFA Confederations Cup participating teams

Team	Confederation	Qualification method	Date qualification secured	Participation no.
Brazil	CONMEBOL	Hosts	30 October 2007	7th
Spain	UEFA	2010 FIFA World Cup winners	11 July 2010	2nd
Japan	AFC	2011 AFC Asian Cup winners	29 January 2011	5th
Mexico	CONCACAF	2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners	25 June 2011	6th
Uruguay	CONMEBOL	2011 Copa América winners	24 July 2011	2nd
Tahiti	OFC	2012 OFC Nations Cup winners	10 June 2012	1st
Italy	UEFA	UEFA Euro 2012 runners-up1	28 June 2012	2nd
Nigeria	CAF	2013 Africa Cup of Nations winners	10 February 2013	2nd

¹ Note: Italy was awarded a spot in the competition because Spain had won both the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012. Since both competitions award their winners a place in the FIFA Confederations Cup, the runner-up of UEFA Euro 2012 received an invitation to the tournament.

Six stadiums were used, each in a different city.

Rio de Janeiro	Belo Horizonte Brasília Fortaleza Recife Rio de Janeiro Salvador	Brasília
Estádio do Maracanã		Estádio Nacional
Capacity: 76,804[5]		Capacity: 68,009[6]
Fortaleza		Belo Horizonte
Estádio Castelão		Estádio Mineirão
Capacity: 64,846[7]		Capacity: 62,547[8]
Salvador		Recife
Arena Fonte Nova		Arena Pernambuco
Capacity: 52,048[9]		Capacity: 44,248[10]

The draw for the competition was held at the Palácio das Convenções in the Anhembi Convention Center in São Paulo, Brazil on 1 December 2012.[11][12]

Teams from the same confederation were not drawn into the same group, therefore, one team each from UEFA and from CONMEBOL was drawn in each group. Brazil and Spain had automatically been assigned as A1 and B1 respectively, therefore, Italy and Uruguay were assigned respectively to Group A and Group B.[13]

Internal view of the stadium in Belo Horizonte.

Ten trios of officials were announced by FIFA on 13 May 2013.[14][15]

Teams had to name a 23-man squad (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline of 3 June 2013.[16] The squads were announced by FIFA on 7 June 2013.[17][18]

A ticket for the competition's opening match in Brasília

The iconic Maracanã Stadium

The competition's dates were confirmed by FIFA on 27 July 2011 in the build-up to the draw for the 2014 World Cup's preliminary qualification rounds.[19] As the competition partially overlapped with the fourth round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification in Asian zone, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) asked FIFA to consider a change of date.[20] However, the AFC decided that the match day would only be adjusted for the AFC representative at the Confederations Cup, Japan.[21] The official final schedule was presented in Rio de Janeiro on 30 May 2012.[22]

All times listed are Brasília official time (UTC−03:00).[23]

All eight teams entered the group stage. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals, while the bottom two teams in each group were eliminated from the tournament.[16] The ranking of the teams in each group was determined as follows:[16]

1. Points obtained in all group matches;
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;

If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:

1. Points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
3. Number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
4. Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

Group A

Main article: 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Italy	3	2	0	1	8	8	0	6
3	Mexico	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	Japan	3	0	0	3	4	9	−5	0

Source:
(H) Host.

15 June 2013
Brazil	3–0	Japan
16 June 2013
Mexico	1–2	Italy
19 June 2013
Brazil	2–0	Mexico
Italy	4–3	Japan
22 June 2013
Italy	2–4	Brazil
Japan	1–2	Mexico

Group B

Main article: 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Uruguay	3	2	0	1	11	3	+8	6
3	Nigeria	3	1	0	2	7	6	+1	3
4	Tahiti	3	0	0	3	1	24	−23	0

Source:

16 June 2013
Spain	2–1	Uruguay
17 June 2013
Tahiti	1–6	Nigeria
20 June 2013
Spain	10–0	Tahiti
Nigeria	1–2	Uruguay
23 June 2013
Nigeria	0–3	Spain
Uruguay	8–0	Tahiti

Brazil won the competition after beating Spain 3–0 in the final.

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time would be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[16]

	Semi-finals				Final
	26 June – Belo Horizonte
	Brazil	2
					30 June – Rio de Janeiro
	Uruguay	1
					Brazil	3
	27 June – Fortaleza
					Spain	0
	Spain (p)	0 (7)
	Italy	0 (6)
					Third place
					30 June – Salvador
					Uruguay	2 (2)
					Italy (p)	2 (3)

Semi-finals

26 June 2013

16:00

Brazil	2–1	Uruguay
Fred  41' Paulinho  86'	Report	Cavani  48'

Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte

Attendance: 57,483

Referee: Enrique Osses (Chile)

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27 June 2013

16:00

Spain	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Italy
	Report
Penalties
Xavi Iniesta Piqué Ramos Mata Busquets Navas	7–6	Candreva Aquilani De Rossi Giovinco Pirlo Montolivo Bonucci

Estádio Castelão, Fortaleza

Attendance: 56,083

Referee: Howard Webb (England)

Match for third place

30 June 2013

13:00

Uruguay	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Italy
Cavani  58', 78'	Report	Astori  24' Diamanti  73'
Penalties
Forlán Cavani Suárez Cáceres Gargano	2–3	Aquilani El Shaarawy De Sciglio Giaccherini

Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador

Attendance: 43,382

Referee: Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)

Final

Main article: 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Final

30 June 2013

19:00

Brazil	3–0	Spain
Fred  2', 47' Neymar  44'	Report

Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 73,531

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Golden Ball winner Neymar

Golden Ball winner	Golden Shoe winner	Golden Glove winner	FIFA Fair Play Trophy
Neymar	Fernando Torres	Júlio César	Spain
Silver Ball winner	Silver Shoe winner
Andrés Iniesta	Fred
Bronze Ball winner	Bronze Shoe winner
Paulinho	Neymar

Source: FIFA[24][25]

Source: FIFA[26]

See also Adidas Tango 12

Adidas Cafusa, the official match ball of the tournament

The official match ball for the Cup was produced by Adidas, a development of the Adidas Tango 12. It was unveiled during the draw for the competition. The ball is named "Cafusa" (pronounced [kɐˈfuzɐ]) – a syllabic abbreviation of the words "carnaval" (Carnival), "futebol" (football) and "samba",[30] aside of being homophonous with cafuza, the Portuguese name for a zamba i.e. a woman of mixed Amerindian and black African descent. Former Brazil captain Cafu was invited to officially unveil the ball.[30]

The competing national football associations received prize money from FIFA based on their representative team's final finishing position.[31]

The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup was the first international tournament for national teams to use goal-line technology. The IFAB officially approved the use of goal-line technology in July 2012, and it was first used in a FIFA competition for the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup in December 2012. Having trialled systems from both Hawk-Eye and GoalRef during the Club World Cup, FIFA announced on 2 April 2013 that the German technology GoalControl had been chosen as the official goal-line technology for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.[32] Its system, GoalControl-4D, uses 14 high-speed cameras located around the pitch and directed at both goals.[33] It was used in the match for third place between Uruguay and Italy to determine the scorer of Italy's first goal.

Protesters on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Their sign translates to "If the bus fare doesn't drop, Rio is going to stop!"

Prior to the opening ceremony at the Brasilia National Stadium on 15 June, demonstrations took place outside the stadium, organised by people unhappy with the amount of public money spent to enable the hosting of the FIFA World Cup.[34] Police used tear gas and pepper spray to quell the protests.[35]

The demonstrations were part of wider unrest and rioting in Brazilian cities initially sparked by increased ticket prices on public transport, but growing to express deeper public disenchantment with the financial management of the country by its government, specially due to the high inflation.[34] The Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff as well as FIFA president Sepp Blatter were heavily booed as they were announced to conduct their speeches at the tournament's opening.[36] Further protests took place the following day prior to the game between Mexico and Italy in Rio de Janeiro.[37][38] Blatter said that the protesters "should not use football to make their demands heard",[39] and that the public expenditure on staging the tournaments was on "items that are for the future, not just for the World Cup".[39]

As the protests continued to intensify during the week, with a reported participation of over a million people taking to the streets in a hundred different towns and cities,[40] reports in the Brazilian media suggested that FIFA was having to negotiate with the teams to keep them in Brazil and that the tournament could be abandoned.[41] However, a FIFA statement on 21 June insisted that "to date, neither FIFA nor the local organising committee have ever discussed any such possibility of cancelling the FIFA Confederations Cup".[42]

FIFA General Secretary Jérôme Valcke subsequently admitted that FIFA had held a "crisis meeting" involving the Brazilian government regarding the completion of the tournament,[43] but sought to distance FIFA from the wider social unrest, stating that "the most important thing for us is to detach the World Cup or the Confederations Cup from these problems. We are not the answer to all problems and we are definitely not the reason for such a crisis. We are just part of what Brazil is doing for the next 20 years....the light FIFA is being shown in here, is the wrong one".[43] He also reaffirmed that the protests had not caused FIFA to consider moving the 2014 World Cup away from Brazil.[43]

Just before the final in Rio de Janeiro, a large crowd marched towards the stadium both in support of the team and in continuation over the original protests. Though largely peaceful,[44] there were some disturbances.[45]

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