The 2014 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2014 presented by
Toyota
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for sponsorship reasons)
was the 11th edition of the
FIFA Club World Cup, a
FIFA-organised international club
football tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations as well as the host nation's league champions.
It was hosted by Morocco for the second year in a row, and played from 10 to 20 December 2014.
Defending champions
Bayern Munich did not qualify as they were eliminated in the semi-finals of the
2013–14 UEFA Champions League by eventual winners
Real Madrid. The Spanish side went on to beat Mexico's
Cruz Azul
Club de Futbol Cruz Azul or simply Cruz Azul () is a professional football club based in Mexico City, Mexico. It competes in the Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Because "azul" means "blue" in Spanish, the club has traditionally ...
4–0 in the Club World Cup semi-finals, before defeating
San Lorenzo 2–0 in the
final
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to give them their first Club World Cup title. Including the
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Jan ...
,
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
and
2002 Intercontinental Cup
The 2002 Intercontinental Cup was an association football match played on 3 December 2002, between Real Madrid of Spain, winners of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, and Olimpia of Paraguay, winners of the 2002 Copa Libertadores. The match was ...
s, it was Real Madrid's fourth world club title, equalling
Milan
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's record.
Host bids
There were four countries bidding to host the
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and 2014 tournaments (same host for both tournaments):
*
*
*
* (which hosted the
2009 and
2010 editions in
Abu Dhabi)
In October 2011,
FIFA said that Iran, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates all withdrew their bids, leaving Morocco as the only bidder. FIFA officially announced Morocco as host on 17 December 2011.
On 21 August 2014, FIFA issued a statement reconfirming Morocco as the host, despite recent rumours that a change in venue might be sought due to the
2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the region, mainly in Guinea, Liberia an ...
. Morocco had cancelled its hosting of the
2015 Africa Cup of Nations
The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, Equatorial Guinea 2015 for sponsorship reasons, was the 30th staging of the Africa Cup of Nations, the international men's football championship of Africa. It was orga ...
due to fears of Ebola, but vowed to host the Club World Cup as no entrants would be from the countries with the most severe Ebola outbreaks.
Qualified teams
Venues
The venues for the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup were in
Rabat and
Marrakesh.
Match officials
The appointed match officials were:
† Replaced Colombian trio
Wilmar Roldán
Wilmar Alexander Roldán Pérez (; born 24 January 1980 in Remedios, Antioquia) is a Colombian football referee. He was ranked the World's 7th Best Referee of 2015 by the IFFHS.
He has been a referee in the domestic league since 2003 and bec ...
, Eduardo Díaz and Alexander Guzmán.
Squads
Each team named a 23-man squad (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline of 28 November 2014. Injury replacements were allowed until 24 hours before the team's first match.
The squads were announced by FIFA on 4 December 2014.
Matches
If a match was tied after normal playing time:
*For elimination matches,
extra time was played. If still tied after extra time, a
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
was held to determine the winner.
*For the matches for fifth place and third place, no extra time was played, and a penalty shoot-out was held to determine the winner.
All times are local,
WET (
UTC±0
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*Greenwich Mean ...
).
Play-off for quarter-finals
Quarter-finals
A draw was held on 11 October 2014 at 19:00
WEST
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
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(
UTC+1
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*Central European Time
*West Africa Time
*Western European Summer Time
**B ...
), at the La Mamounia Hotel in
Marrakesh, to determine the pairings of the four quarter-finalists.
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Semi-finals
The first semi-final was originally to be played at
Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium
Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium ( ar, المجمع الرياضي الأمير مولاي عبد الله) is a multi-purpose stadium in Rabat, Morocco. It is named after Prince Moulay Abdellah of Morocco. It was built in 1983 and is the home gr ...
,
Rabat, but was moved to
Stade de Marrakech,
Marrakesh due to difficult pitch conditions.
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Match for fifth place
Match for third place
Final
Goalscorers
;Own goal
*
Daniel Mullen (
Western Sydney Wanderers
Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier ...
, scored for
ES Sétif
Entente Sportive Sétifienne ( ar, الوفاق الرياضي السطايفي), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in ...
)
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
FIFA also named a
man of the match
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for the best player in each game at the tournament.
References
External links
FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2014 FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report
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2014 FIFA Club World Cup
The 2014 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2014 presented by Toyota for sponsorship reasons) was the 11th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between th ...
2014 in association football
2014–15 in Spanish football
2014–15 in Moroccan football
2014 in Argentine football
2014–15 in Mexican football
2014–15 in New Zealand association football
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