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The FIFA Club World Championship 2005 is a football tournament currently being eld in Japan. It is FIFA's biggest club (i.e. non national) tournament, though is not as highly regarded by most sides as the regional tournaments such as the Copa Libertadores, UEFA Champions League and African Champions League
Genesis
The 2005 tournament was created as a merger between the European/South American Cup and the earlier FIFA Club World Championships. The previous of these had been running as an annual torunament between the champions of Europe and South America since 1960; the latter had undergone just one tournament, the FIFA Club World Championship 2000. The 2001 tournament had been cancelled when FIFA's marketing partner ISL went bankrupt.
As a result of this merger, the tournament was concevied as being smaller than the original Club World Championship, which had alsted two weeks, yet buliding on the one game format of the Intercontinental Cup. 6 clubs were invited to take part in the tournament, one representing each regional football confediration.
Format
The competition is a knockout tournament so each team will play two or three matches. The champions of the 4 "weaker" confederations will play in the quarter-finals; the losers will play in a fifth/sixth place match. The winners will then be joined by the European and South American champions in the semi-finals; the losers will play in a third/fourth place match
Qualifying teams
These were decided during 2005:
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The Tournament
Quarter-finals
| Match | Date | Venue | Teams | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 Dec 05 | Olympic Stadium, Tokyo | File:Ittihad-Jeddah-Logo.gif Al-Ittihad 1 - 0 File:Ahly's logo.jpg Al Ahly | File:Ittihad-Jeddah-Logo.gif Mohammed Noor 78' |
| 2 | 12 Dec 05 | Toyota Stadium, Toyota City | File:SydneyFClogo.jpg Sydney 0 - 1 File:Escudo Saprissa.JPG Deportivo Saprissa | File:Escudo Saprissa.JPG Cristian Bolaños 47' |
Semi-finals
Match for 5th place
| Match | Date | Venue | Teams | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 16 Dec 05 | Olympic Stadium, Tokyo | File:Ahly's logo.jpg Al Ahly 1 - 2 File:SydneyFClogo.jpg Sydney | File:SydneyFClogo.jpg Dwight Yorke 35' File:Ahly's logo.jpg Emad Motab 45' File:SydneyFClogo.jpg David Carney 66' |
Match for 3rd place
| Match | Date | Venue | Teams | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 18 Dec 05 | International Stadium, Yokohama | File:Ittihad-Jeddah-Logo.gif Al-Ittihad 2 - 3 File:Escudo Saprissa.JPG Deportivo Saprissa | File:Escudo Saprissa.JPG Alvaro Saborío 13' File:Ittihad-Jeddah-Logo.gif Mohammed Kallon 28' File:Ittihad-Jeddah-Logo.gifJoseph-Desiré Job (pen) 53' File:Escudo Saprissa.JPG Alvaro Saborío (pen) 85' File:Escudo Saprissa.JPG Ronald Gomez 89' |
Final
| Match | Date | Venue | Teams | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 18 Dec 05 | International Stadium, Yokohama | File:Sao Paulo (Soccer) Shield.gif São Paulo 1 - 0 File:Liverpool FC logo.png Liverpool | File:Sao Paulo (Soccer) Shield.gif Carlos Mineiro 27' |
The matches will be held in Tokyo's National (Olympic) Stadium, Toyota Stadium in Toyota, Aichi near Nagoya and the International Stadium in Yokohama, where the final will be played. For marketing purposes it is known as the FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup.