Host country Japan Runners-up Liverpool Matches played 7 Champion São Paulo FC Best player Rogério Ceni Third place Deportivo Saprissa | Venue(s) 3 (in 3 host cities) Fourth place Al-Ittihad Goals scored 19 (2.71 per match) Dates 11 Dec 2005 – 18 Dec 2005 Teams 6 Attendance 261,456 | |
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Similar 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, 2005 Copa Libertadores, 2000 FIFA Club World Championship, 2007 FIFA Club World Cup, 2008 FIFA Club World Cup | ||
S o paulo 1x0 liverpool 2005 fifa club world championship final
The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup was the second edition of the FIFA Club World Championship, and the first held after by the merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Championship (which had been played in a pilot edition in 2000 but later discontinued).
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- S o paulo 1x0 liverpool 2005 fifa club world championship final
- Background
- Format
- Qualified teams
- Venues
- Scorers
- Views on the tournament
- References
The football tournament was held in Japan from 11 December to 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club São Paulo.
Background
The 2005 tournament was created as a merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the earlier FIFA Club World Championships. 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 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. 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 knockout tournament 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 Toyota, Aichi, near Nagoya and the International Stadium in Yokohama, where the final was played. For marketing purposes it was known as the FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified during 2005:
Venues
Tokyo, Yokohama and Toyota were the three cities to serve as venues for the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup.
Scorers
Views on the tournament
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 European/South American Cup.