The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship (officially known as the FIFA Club World Championship

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Cup Japan 2005 for sponsorship reasons) was the second

FIFA Club World Championship The FIFA Club World Cup is an international men's association football competition organised by the ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 200 ...

, a football competition organised by FIFA for the champion clubs of the six continental confederations. It was the first to be 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). The tournament was held in Japan from 11 to 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club

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, who defeated English side

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1–0 in the

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Background

The 2005 tournament was created as a merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the earlier

s. 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

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. 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

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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

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, near

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and the International Stadium in

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, where the final was played. For marketing purposes it was known as the ''FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup''.

Qualified teams

Venues

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

Squads

Match officials

Bracket

Matches

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Fifth place play-off

Third place play-off

Final

Scorers

Reaction

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

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Awards

References

External links

FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005
FIFA.com

(Archived)
FIFA Technical Report
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