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The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup was the 10th and final edition of the
FIFA Confederations Cup, a quadrennial international men's
football
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tournament organised by
FIFA
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. It was held in Russia, from 17 June to 2 July 2017, as a prelude to the
2018 FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...
.
Russia was announced as the host on 2 December 2010 after the country was awarded the
hosting rights of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The matches were played in four stadiums in four cities:
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
Moscow
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,
Kazan
Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...
, and
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...
. It was the first time Russia had hosted the tournament, and the third time the Confederations Cup was held in the European continent. As hosts,
Russia
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qualified automatically for the tournament; they were joined by the six winners of the
FIFA confederation championships and the
2014 FIFA World Cup
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champions,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
.
The final tournament was played in two stages: a group stage and a latter knockout stage. In the group stage, each team played three games in a group of four, with the winners and runners-up from each group advancing to the knockout stage. In the knockout stage, the four teams competed in
single-elimination
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matches, beginning with the semi-finals and ending with
the final match of the tournament. A third-place match was played between the two losing semi-finalist teams. The final match was also attended by young participants of the international children's social programme
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from 64 countries.
The defending champions,
Brazil
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, who won the previous three Confederation Cups (
2005,
2009,
2013
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), failed to qualify for the first time since
1995
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following their loss on penalties to
Paraguay
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in the quarter-finals of the
2015 Copa América.
2015 AFC Asian Cup winners
Australia
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became the first team to qualify from multiple confederations, having previously represented the
OFC in
1997,
2001 and
2005. This was the first and only Confederations Cup to feature the
video assistant referee
The video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official in association football who reviews decisions made by the referee.
The assistant video assistant referee (AVAR) is a current or former referee appointed to assist the VAR in the video ope ...
(VAR).
World champions
Germany
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won their first and only title following a 1–0 win over
Chile
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in
the final
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
.
This was the last Confederations Cup held before being folded after being confirmed by FIFA that it will no longer hold anymore Confederation Cup matches in order to make way for the
FIFA Club World Cup expansion, along with the
2021 FIFA Arab Cup.
Qualification
The eight competing teams were the host nation, the reigning FIFA World Cup champions, and the six holders of the
FIFA confederation championships. If any team qualified for multiple berths (such as, if the World Cup champions also won their continental championship), the next best-placed team from their continental championship would have qualified.
After Russia secured a spot in the tournament as the hosts, Germany were the first team to qualify via competition, after winning the
2014 FIFA World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the hosting ri ...
in Brazil. The
final match saw the Germans clinch the country's fourth world title through a 1–0 extra-time win against
Argentina
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. Australia were the next team to qualify after beating
South Korea
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2–1 after extra time, in the
2015 AFC Asian Cup Final
The 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final was a football match which took place on 31 January 2015 at the Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia, to determine the winner of 2015 AFC Asian Cup. It was played between South Korea and hosts Australia. Austral ...
. This victory marked Australia's first Asian Cup win since their move from the
Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in 2006. It was also the first time a team had become champions of two confederations, following Australia's four
OFC Nations Cup
The OFC Nations Cup is an international association football tournament held among the OFC member nations. It was held every two years from 1996 to 2004; before 1996 there were two other tournaments held at irregular intervals, under the name ...
titles. Chile were the fourth team to secure a spot at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup after defeating Argentina 4–1 on a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extra time, in the
2015 Copa América Final.
As
2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions, Mexico's qualifying path saw them face
2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions
United States
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in the
2015 CONCACAF Cup
The CONCACAF Cup (officially the CONCACAF Cup presented by Scotiabank for sponsorship reasons) was an international soccer play-off match to determine CONCACAF's entry into the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. The 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup ...
play-off match. The new format, in which the two most recent CONCACAF Gold Cup winners compete to decide the representative team of CONCACAF, was won by Mexico 3–2 after extra time.
New Zealand
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were the sixth team to qualify for the tournament after defeating
Papua New Guinea
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4–2 on a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extra time, in the
2016 OFC Nations Cup Final.
Portugal
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were the seventh team to qualify, after defeating host nation
France
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1–0 after extra time, in the
UEFA Euro 2016 Final
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. The
2017 Africa Cup of Nations winning team,
Cameroon
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, took the eighth and final spot with their 2–1 win against
Egypt
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in the
2017 Africa Cup of Nations Final. This was the first time in FIFA Confederations Cup history that three national teams from any single confederation (Russia, Germany and Portugal from
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
) participated in the tournament.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
Venues
Four cities served as the venues for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. All four venues were also among the 12 used for the
2018 FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...
.
On 8 October 2015, FIFA and the Local Organising Committee agreed on the official names of the stadiums used during the tournament.
Schedule
The full schedule was announced by FIFA on 24 July 2015 (without kick-off times, which were confirmed later). Russia was placed in position A1 in the group stage and played in the opening match against New Zealand at the
Zenit Arena in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
on 17 June. The distribution of the knockout stage matches was as follows:
*The
Krestovsky Stadium
Krestovsky Stadium, known as Gazprom Arena for sponsorship reasons (russian: «Газпром Арена»), is a retractable roof stadium with a retractable pitch in the western portion of Krestovsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which s ...
in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
hosted the final on 2 July.
*The
Kazan Arena in
Kazan
Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...
hosted the first semi-final on 28 June.
*The
Fisht Olympic Stadium
Fisht Olympic Stadium (russian: Олимпийский стадион «Фишт», p=ɐlʲɪmˈpʲijskʲɪj stədʲɪˈon ˈfʲiʂt, r=Olimpiyskiy stadion "Fisht", ''Olimpiyskiy Stadion Fisht'') is an outdoor stadium in Sochi, Russia. Located i ...
in
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...
hosted the second semi-final on 29 June.
*The
Otkritie Arena
Otkritie Bank Arena ( rus, «Открытие Арена», p=ɐtˈkrɨtʲɪjə ɐˈrʲenə, ), also known as Spartak Stadium (the stadium's official name during the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup), is a multi-purpose sta ...
in
Moscow
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hosted the third place match on 2 July.
Draw
The draw took place on 26 November 2016, 18:00
MSK (
UTC+3
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Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be wri ...
), at the Tennis Academy in
Kazan
Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...
.
For the draw, the eight teams were allocated to two pots. Pot 1 contained hosts
Russia
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and the three highest-ranked teams in the November 2016 edition of the
FIFA World Rankings
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(shown in parentheses below):
Germany
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,
Chile
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, and
Portugal
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. Pot 2 contained the remaining four teams:
Mexico
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,
Australia
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,
New Zealand
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and the winners of the
2017 Africa Cup of Nations (whose identity was not known at the time of the draw and regardless of their identity could not be among the three highest-ranked participating teams), which was won by
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
on 5 February 2017 to complete the line-up.
The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four with each group containing two teams from Pot 1 and two teams from Pot 2. During the draw procedure, teams were drawn into alternating groups (Group A, then Group B, repeating) and assigned a position within the group by drawing another ball. As hosts, Russia were automatically assigned to Position A1 in the draw. Since there were three teams from Europe, one of the two groups was certain to contain two teams from the same confederation (Russia and Portugal), the first time this happened in a FIFA Confederations Cup.
Match officials
A total of 9 refereeing trios (a referee and two assistant referees), 1 support referee, and 8 video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.
Match ball
![Krasava Adidas 2017 Football](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Krasava_Adidas_2017_Football.jpg)
The official match ball for the Cup was produced by
Adidas
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and was named "Krasava", which is a Russian slang word for "beautiful" or "awesome".
Squads
Each team had to name a preliminary squad of 30 players. From the preliminary squad, the team had to name a final squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad could be replaced due to serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match, where the replacement players did not need to be in the preliminary squad.
The official squads were announced by FIFA on 8 June 2017.
Group stage
All times are local,
MSK (
UTC+3
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Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be wri ...
).
Tiebreakers
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows (regulations Article 19.6):
If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time,
extra time
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was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team was allowed to make a fourth
substitution. If still tied after extra time, the match was decided by a
penalty shoot-out
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to determine the winners.
Bracket
Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament. The player awards were all sponsored by
Adidas
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.
Additionally, FIFA.com shortlisted six goals so that football fans could vote on the tournaments' best. The poll closed on 10 July.
Statistics
Goalscorers
Tournament ranking
Prize money
Based on final position, teams received prize money from FIFA.
[Confederations Cup 2017: the economic prizes that will win the first 3 places (in Spanish)]
http://larepublica.pe/
Ticketing
Tickets were distributed in four stages: pre-sale for holders of
Visa
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** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
*Travel visa, a document that allows ...
cards, random draw, first-come first-served, and last-minute sales.
Sponsorship
Broadcasting rights
Logistics
Free travel via additional trains travelling between host cities during the sporting events were provided to spectators holding match tickets or documents granting access to the match, along with FAN ID.
FAN IDs were issued to all spectators of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 for access to a stadium. FAN ID gave the opportunity to use free transport services on the match days in the cities hosting the sports events. The foreign citizens, who come to the Russian Federation as spectators of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 matches, could use their FAN IDs for multiple visa-free entry into and exit from the Russian Federation upon presentation of valid identity documents that are recognized as such by the Russian Federation, during the period that started ten days before the date of the first match and ended ten days after the date of the last match of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.
In 2015, the
Russian Ministry of Sport and Local Organising Committee launched a website aimed at providing coverage of the preparation process ahead of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and
2018 FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...
.
References
External links
FIFA Confederations Cup FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fifa Confederations Cup 2017
2016–17 in Russian football
Confederations Cup
The FIFA Confederations Cup was an international association football tournament for men's national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It was contested by the holders of each of the six continental championships (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, ...
2017
June 2017 sports events in Russia
July 2017 sports events in Russia
2017 Fifa Confederations Cup