FIFA Club World Cup

The 2005 FIFA Club World Cup Trophy; a similar version is awarded to the world champions.
Founded	2000 (Championship) 2005
Region	International (FIFA)
Number of teams	7
Current champions	Barcelona (2nd title)
Most successful team	Barcelona (2 titles)
Website	Club World Cup
2012 FIFA Club World Cup

The FIFA Club World Cup is a football competition between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations.

The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in January 2000. It ran in parallel with the Intercontinental Cup, contested annually since 1960 by the winners of the UEFA Champions League and the South American Copa Libertadores, until the two merged in 2005.

History[link]

The 2000 FIFA Club World Championship, held in Brazil, consisted of eight qualifiers: the six continental champions, the 1998 Intercontinental Champions and the host nation champions. The tournament was controversial, most notably in England where Manchester United chose to withdraw from a national cup competition, the FA Cup, in order to compete. The launch of the competition was understood by some to be part of a struggle between FIFA and UEFA, who were competing for control of international club football: the existing Intercontinental Cup was outside of FIFA's jurisdiction.^[1] The final was competed between the two Brazilian sides and the winner was Sport Club Corinthians Paulista in a penalty shoot-out over Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama.^[2]

The second competition was pencilled in for Spain in 2001, to feature 12 teams. This was cancelled owing to a combination of factors, most importantly the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL. It was then intended to hold the event in 2003, but this also failed to happen. FIFA eventually agreed to terms with the UEFA to merge the two competitions.

The trophy since 2005

The final Intercontinental Cup was in 2004, with the first instalment of the relaunched Club World Championship Toyota Cup held in Japan between December 11 and December 18, 2005.

The 2005 relaunched version was shorter than the previous World Championship, reducing the problem of scheduling the tournament around the different club seasons across each continent. It contained just the six reigning continental champions, with the CONMEBOL and UEFA champions receiving byes to the semi-finals of the tournament. A completely new trophy was introduced, replacing all previous cups: the Intercontinental trophy, the Toyota trophy and the trophy won by Corinthians in 2000.

The competition was then renamed as FIFA Club World Cup^[3] for the 2006 event, which was held annually in Japan until 2008. The United Arab Emirates hosted the event in 2009 and 2010. For the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup, a play-off match between the OFC champions and the host-nation champions for entry into the quarter-final stage was introduced in order to increase home interest in the tournament. The reintroduction of the match for fifth place for the 2008 competition also prompted an increase in prize money by US$500,000 to a total of US$16.5 million. The winners took away $5 million, second-placed team received $4 million, the third-placed team $2.5 million, the fourth-placed team $2 million, the fifth-placed team $1.5 million, the sixth-placed team $1 million and the seventh-placed team received $500,000.^[4]

In February 2008 a FIFA Club World Cup Champions Badge was introduced, featuring an image of the trophy, which the reigning champion is entitled to display on its kit until the final of the next championship. Initially, all four previous champions were allowed to wear the badge until the 2008 final,^[5] where Manchester United gained the sole right to wear the badge by winning the trophy.

The teams with the most appearances in the competition is Auckland City of New Zealand who has played in four out of the nine tournaments held – 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2012 for Auckland City.

Results[link]

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match			Number of teams
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2000 Details	Brazil	Corinthians	0–0 (4–3 p)	Vasco da Gama	Necaxa	1–1 (4–3 p)	Real Madrid	8
2005 Details	Japan	São Paulo	1–0	Liverpool	Saprissa	3–2	Al Ittihad	6
2006 Details	Japan	Internacional	1–0	Barcelona	Al-Ahly	2–1	América	6
2007 Details	Japan	Milan	4–2	Boca Juniors	Urawa Red Diamonds	2–2 (4–2 p)	Étoile du Sahel	7
2008 Details	Japan	Manchester United	1–0	LDU Quito	Gamba Osaka	1–0	Pachuca	7
2009 Details	United Arab Emirates	Barcelona	2–1 (aet)	Estudiantes	Pohang Steelers	1–1 (4–3 p)	Atlante	7
2010 Details	United Arab Emirates	Internazionale	3–0	TP Mazembe	Internacional	4–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	7
2011 Details	Japan	Barcelona	4–0	Santos	Al-Sadd	0–0 (5–3 p)	Kashiwa Reysol	7
2012 Details	Japan
2013 Details	Morocco
2014 Details	Morocco

Honors[link]

Year	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball	Top Goalscorer	Fair Play Award
2000	Edílson	Edmundo	Romário	Nicolas Anelka (3) Romário (3)	Al-Nassr
2005	Rogério Ceni	Jamie Carragher	Cristian Bolaños	Amoroso (2) Peter Crouch (2) Alvaro Saborio (2) Mohammed Noor (2)	Liverpool
2006	Deco	Pedro Iarley	Ronaldinho	Mohamed Aboutreika (3)	Barcelona
2007	Kaká	Clarence Seedorf	Rodrigo Palacio	Washington (3)	Urawa Red Diamonds
2008	Wayne Rooney	Cristiano Ronaldo	Damián Manso	Wayne Rooney (3)	Adelaide United
2009	Lionel Messi	Juan Sebastián Verón	Xavi	Denilson (4)	Atlante
2010	Samuel Eto'o	Dioko Kaluyituka	Andrés D'Alessandro	Mauricio Molina (3)	Internazionale
2011	Lionel Messi	Xavi	Neymar	Lionel Messi (2) Adriano (2)	Barcelona

Top goalscorers[link]

4 goals

3 goals

Performances[link]

By club[link]

Team	Winners	Runners-Up	Third	Fourth
Barcelona	2 (2009, 2011)	1 (2006)
Internacional	1 (2006)		1 (2010)
Internazionale	1 (2010)
Manchester United	1 (2008)
Milan	1 (2007)
São Paulo	1 (2005)
Corinthians	1 (2000)
Santos		1 (2011)
TP Mazembe		1 (2010)
Estudiantes		1 (2009)
LDU Quito		1 (2008)
Boca Juniors		1 (2007)
Liverpool		1 (2005)
Vasco da Gama		1 (2000)
Al-Sadd			1 (2011)
Pohang Steelers			1 (2009)
Gamba Osaka			1 (2008)
Urawa Red Diamonds			1 (2007)
Al-Ahly			1 (2006)
Deportivo Saprissa			1 (2005)
Necaxa			1 (2000)
Kashiwa Reysol				1 (2011)
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma				1 (2010)
Atlante				1 (2009)
Pachuca				1 (2008)
Étoile du Sahel				1 (2007)
América				1 (2006)
Al Ittihad				1 (2005)
Real Madrid				1 (2000)

By country[link]

Nation	Winners	Runners-Up	Third	Fourth
Brazil	3 (2000, 2005, 2006)	2 (2000, 2011)	1 (2010)
Spain	2 (2009, 2011)	1 (2006)		1 (2000)
Italy	2 (2007, 2010)
England	1 (2008)	1 (2005)
Argentina		2 (2007, 2009)
Ecuador		1 (2008)
DR Congo		1 (2010)
Japan			2 (2007, 2008)	1 (2011)
Mexico			1 (2000)	3 (2006, 2008, 2009)
South Korea			1 (2009)	1 (2010)
Qatar			1 (2011)
Egypt			1 (2006)
Costa Rica			1 (2005)
Saudi Arabia				1 (2005)
Tunisia				1 (2007)

By Confederation[link]

Prize money[link]

For each team, the winners received $5 million, the second-placed team takes $4 million, the third-placed team $2.5 million, the fourth-placed team $2 million, the fifth-placed team $1.5 million, the sixth-placed team $1 million and the seventh-placed team received $500,000.^{[citation needed]}

Sponsorship[link]

The tournament's presenting partner is Toyota, presumably as a result of the merger of the Club World Championship with the Toyota-sponsored Intercontinental Cup in 2005. Because Toyota is an automaker and is the main sponsor of the tournament, Hyundai-Kia's status as FIFA partner is not active with respect to the Club World Cup. The five other FIFA partners – Adidas, Coca-Cola, Emirates, Sony, and Visa – retain full sponsorship rights, however.

The event sponsors have varied from year to year.

Since 2000, the event sponsors were:

• Fujifilm (2000)
• Hyundai (2000)
• JVC (2000)
• McDonald's (2000)
• Budweiser (2000)
• MasterCard (2000)
• JTB (2005, 2006, 2011)
  • JAPANiCAN was the brand advertised (2006, 2011).
• Nikon (2005)
• Pia (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• Yomiuri Shimbun (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011)
• Microsoft (2005, 2006)
  • Xbox 360 was the brand advertised.
• Pioneer (2005)
• Roots (2005, 2006)
• Credit Saison (2005, 2006)
• Teijin (2005, 2006)
• Toshiba (2005)
• Makita (2006, 2007, 2008)
• ECC (2006)
• Nikken Sogyo (2007)
• Komatsu (2007, 2008, 2011)
• Abu Dhabi Media (2009)
• Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (2009)
• Etisalat (2009)
• Mubadala (2009)
• Flash Airlines (2010)
• Marina Mall (2010)
• Chūbu Centrair International Airport (2011)
• Lawson Ticket (2011)

See also[link]

• Intercontinental Cup
• List of world club champions
• List of confederation and inter-confederation club competition winners
• List of FIFA Club World Cup participants

References[link]

External links[link]

• FIFA Club World Cup official site
• Sports Illustrated coverage of the FIFA World Club Championship
• (Italian) History of FIFA Club World Cup
• (Italian) Stats of FIFA Club World Cup

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A World Cup is a type of sporting competition.

World Cup commonly refers to:

• FIFA World Cup (men's association football)
• ICC Cricket World Cup
• Rugby World Cup (rugby union)
• Rugby League World Cup (rugby league)

World Cup can also refer to:

Athletics[link]

• IAAF World Cup in Athletics
• ITU Triathlon World Cup

Baseball and softball[link]

• Baseball World Cup
• Women's Baseball World Cup
• World Cup of Softball

Cricket[link]

• ICC World Twenty20 (cricket)
• Indoor Cricket World Cup
• Women's Cricket World Cup

Equestrian[link]

• Dubai World Cup (horse racing)
• Show Jumping World Cup (equestrian)

Football[link]

Association football[link]

• FIFA Club World Cup (men's association football)
• FIFA Women's World Cup (women's association football)
• FIFA U-20 World Cup
• FIFA U-17 World Cup
• FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
• FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
• FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
• FIFA Futsal World Cup (indoor association football)
• FIFI Wild Cup
• VIVA World Cup (non-FIFA nations football)

Australian Rules football[link]

• Australian Football International Cup

American football[link]

• IFAF World Cup

Hockey[link]

• Hockey World Cup (field hockey)
• Women's Hockey World Cup (field hockey)
• World Cup of Hockey (ice hockey)

Rugby[link]

• Rugby World Cup Sevens (rugby union)
• Touch Football World Cup
• Women's Rugby League World Cup
• Women's Rugby World Cup (rugby union)

Tennis[link]

• Davis Cup (tennis)
• Fed Cup (women's tennis)
• World Team Cup (tennis)

Water sports[link]

• Canoe Slalom World Cup
• FINA Diving World Cup
• FINA Swimming World Cup
• FINA Water Polo World Cup

Winter sports[link]

• Alpine Skiing World Cup
• Bandy World Cup
• Bandy World Cup for women
• Biathlon World Cup
• Bobsleigh World Cup
• FIS Cross-Country World Cup
• FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
• FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
• FIS Snowboard World Cup
• Luge World Cup
• Short Track Speed Skating World Cup
• Skeleton World Cup (toboggan)
• Speed Skating World Cup
• World Cup in Ski Orienteering

Other sports[link]

• AMF World Cup (ten-pin bowling)
• Artistic Gymnastics World Cup
• Boxing World Cup
• ISSF World Cup (shooting)
• Orienteering World Cup
• Paralympic World Cup (multiple sports)
• Paralympic Winter World Cup (multiple sports)
• PBR World Cup (bull riding)
• PDC World Cup of Darts
• Roller Derby World Cup
• Rowing World Cup
• Speedway World Cup (motorcycle)
• UCI World Cup (various cycling world cups)
• Volleyball World Cup
• Women's Lacrosse World Cup
• Women's World Cup of Golf
• World Cup (men's golf)
• World Cup of Pool
• World Inline Cup (inline speed skating)
• World Cup (snooker)

See also[link]

• World championship
• World Cup trophy (disambiguation)

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