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2005 FIFA Club World Championship
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| 2005 FIFA Club World Championship FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005 |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host nation |  Japan |
| Dates | 11 December – 18 December |
| Teams | 6 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 3 (in 3 host cities) |
| Champions |  São Paulo FC (1 title) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 7 |
| Goals scored | 19 (2.71 per match) |
| Attendance | 261,456 (37,351 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Amoroso (2 goals)
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The FIFA Club World Championship 2005 was a football tournament held in Japan between 11 and 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club São Paulo FC. It is FIFA's biggest club (i.e. non national) tournament, though is not as highly regarded by most sides as the regional tournaments such as the Copa Libertadores and UEFA Champions League.
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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 FIFA Club World Championship 2000. The 2001 tournament had been cancelled when FIFA's marketing partner ISL went bankrupt.
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 was a knockout tournament so each team played two or three matches. The champions of the 4 "weaker" confederations played in the quarter-finals; the losers played in a fifth/sixth place match. The winners were then joined by the European and South American champions in the semi-finals; the losers played in a third/fourth place match.
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.
These were decided during 2005:
For a list of all squads which appeared at the tournament, see 2005 FIFA Club World Championship (squads).
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| 11 December - Tokyo | ||||||||||||||
 Al Ittihad |
1 | |||||||||||||
| 14 December - Tokyo | ||||||||||||||
 Al-Ahly |
0 | |||||||||||||
| Al Ittihad |
2 | |||||||||||||
| Fifth place | ||||||||||||||
| São Paulo F.C. |
3 | |||||||||||||
| Al-Ahly |
1 | |||||||||||||
| 18 December - Yokohama | ||||||||||||||
 Sydney F.C. |
2 | |||||||||||||
| São Paulo F.C. |
1 | |||||||||||||
| 16 December - Tokyo | 12 December - Toyota City | |||||||||||||
 Liverpool F.C. |
0 | |||||||||||||
| Sydney F.C. |
0 | |||||||||||||
| 15 December - Yokohama | ||||||||||||||
 Dep. Saprissa |
1 | |||||||||||||
| Dep. Saprissa |
0 | |||||||||||||
| Third place | ||||||||||||||
| Liverpool F.C. |
3 | |||||||||||||
| Al Ittihad |
2 | |||||||||||||
| Dep. Saprissa |
3 | |||||||||||||
| 18 December - Yokohama | ||||||||||||||
First Round
| December 11, 2005 | |||
| Al Ittihad |
1–0 | Al Ahly |
Olympic Stadium: 28,281 |
| Noor 78' |
| December 12, 2005 | |||
| Sydney |
0–1 | Deportivo Saprissa |
Toyota Stadium: 28,538 |
| Bolaños 47' |
Semifinals
| December 14, 2005 | |||
| Al Ittihad |
2–3 | São Paulo |
Olympic Stadium, Tokyo: 31,510 |
| Noor 33 Al-Montashari 68 |
Amoroso 16, 47 Rogério Ceni pen 57 |
| December 15, 2005 | |||
| Deportivo Saprissa |
0–3 | Liverpool |
International Stadium Yokohama: 43,902 |
| Crouch 3, 58 Gerrard 32 |
Fifth Place
| December 16, 2005 | |||
| Al Ahly |
1–2 | Sydney |
Olympic Stadium, Tokyo: 15,951 |
| Moteab 45 | Yorke 35 Carney 66 |
Third Place
| December 18, 2005 | |||
| Al Ittihad |
2–3 | Deportivo Saprissa |
International Stadium Yokohama |
| Kallon 28 Job pen 53 |
Saborío 13, pen 85 Gómez 89 |
Final
| December 18, 2005 | |||
| São Paulo |
1–0 | Liverpool |
International Stadium Yokohama: 66,821 |
| Mineiro 27 |
The final game saw Liverpool dominate, having seventeen corners to São Paulo's none. After their early goal, however, São Paulo were able to soak up Liverpool's pressure, largely thanks to the effort of their goalkeeper Rogério Ceni. As a result, he was elected Man of the Match (best player in the final match), an award given not by FIFA, but rather by the tournament's principal sponsor, Toyota. Ceni was awarded a car for this, although he will not keep it — as it is traditional in Brazilian clubs, when a player is awarded an individual prize, such as a car, the prize itself is normally sold and the money split between all players.
During the match, three goals by Liverpool were disallowed, two as offsides and one in which, after a corner, the ball's trajectory would have taken it off the field and then back in again [1]. Television replays of the incidents have confirmed the refereeing decisions, although some, namely some sections of the British press, have judged them to have been 'poor'. Liverpool's manager, Rafael Benítez, went as far as complaining to FIFA's president Sepp Blatter about the standard of refereeing [2] [3] [4].
| FIFA Club World Championship 2005 Winners |
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 São Paulo Futebol ClubeFirst title |
- 2 Goals
Amoroso (São Paulo)
Mohammed Noor (Al-Ittihad)
Peter Crouch (Liverpool)
Alvaro Saborio (Deportivo Saprissa)
- 1 Goal
- Mineiro (São Paulo)
- Rogério Ceni (São Paulo)
Emad Moteab (Al-Ahly)- Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Dwight Yorke (Sydney FC)
David Carney (Sydney FC)- Christian Bolaños (Deportivo Saprissa)
- Rónald Gómez (Deportivo Saprissa)
- Hamad Al-Montashari (Al-Ittihad)
Joseph-Désiré Job (Al-Ittihad)
Mohammed Kallon (Al-Ittihad)
| Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball | MVP of Final Match |
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| Rogerio Ceni (São Paulo FC) |
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool FC) |
Christian Bolaños (Deportivo Saprissa) |
Rogerio Ceni (São Paulo FC) |
| Pos | Team | Confederation | Region |
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| 1 | São Paulo FC | CONMEBOL | South America |
| 2 | Liverpool FC | UEFA | Europe |
| 3 | Deportivo Saprissa | CONCACAF | Central America, North America and the Caribbean |
| 4 | Al Ittihad | AFC | Asia |
| 5 | Sydney FC | OFC | Oceania |
| 6 | Al Ahly | CAF | Africa |
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 [5].
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