2001 FIFA Club World Championship

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2001 FIFA Club World Championship
Campeonato Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA España 2001
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2001 FIFA Club World Championship
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Tournament details
Host countrySpain
Dates28 July – 12 August (cancelled)
Teams12 (from 6 confederations)
2000
2005

The 2001 FIFA Club World Championship was a football tournament arranged by FIFA to take place in Spain from 28 July to 12 August 2001. [1] It was supposed to be the second edition of the FIFA Club World Championship, after the first edition in 2000, but was cancelled owing to a combination of factors such as the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL. [2] [3] [4] FIFA had originally planned to postpone the tournament until 2003. [5]

Contents

Host bids

The FIFA Executive Committee appointed Spain as tournament hosts on 3 August 2000 during their meeting in Zürich, Switzerland. [6] [7]

Qualified teams

The clubs invited to the 2001 tournament were: [8]

TeamConfederationQualificationParticipation [note 1]
Flag of Spain.svg Deportivo La Coruña UEFA (host)Winner of the 1999–2000 La Liga 1st
Flag of Ghana.svg Hearts of Oak CAF Winner of the 2000 CAF Champions League 1st
Flag of Egypt.svg Zamalek CAF Winner of the 2000 African Cup Winners' Cup 1st
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Al-Hilal AFC Winner of the 2000 Asian Super Cup 1st
Flag of Japan.svg Júbilo Iwata AFC Winner of the 1999 Asian Super Cup 1st
Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid UEFA Winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League 2nd (Previous: 2000)
Flag of Turkey.svg Galatasaray UEFA Winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup 1st
Flag of the United States.svg Los Angeles Galaxy CONCACAF Winner of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1st
Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Olimpia CONCACAF Runner-up of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1st
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Wollongong Wolves OFC Winner of the 2001 Oceania Club Championship 1st
Flag of Argentina.svg Boca Juniors CONMEBOL Winner of the 2000 Copa Libertadores 1st
Flag of Brazil.svg Palmeiras CONMEBOL Winner of the 1999 Copa Libertadores 1st

Notes

  1. Participation number if the tournament would have been played

Venues

Matches were to be played in Madrid, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela.[ citation needed ]

Madrid
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Estadio Vicente Calderón
Capacity: 85,000Capacity: 54,907
Estadio Santiago Bernabeu - 02.jpg Aprobado el nuevo ambito Mahou-Calderon (01).jpg
A Coruña Santiago de Compostela
Estadio Riazor Estadio Multiusos de San Lazaro
Capacity: 32,660Capacity: 12,000
Estadio de Riazor.A Corunha.Galiza.jpg Estadio Multiusos de San Lazaro.jpg

Format

Due to the expansion of the tournament to 12 teams, the group stage saw the teams divided into three groups of four. The top team in each group and the best second-placed team qualified for the semi-finals. [1]

Group stage

The group stage draw was held on 6 March 2001 at the Congress Centre in A Coruña; [9] however, on 18 May 2001, FIFA confirmed that the tournament had been cancelled. They made plans to hold an expanded, 16-team tournament in 2003, again in Spain, but it was ultimately not until 2005 in Japan that the tournament was finally resurrected. [10]

Group A

Boca Juniors Flag of Argentina.svg Cancelled Flag of Spain.svg Deportivo La Coruña
Wollongong Wolves Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cancelled Flag of Egypt.svg Zamalek

Deportivo La Coruña Flag of Spain.svg Cancelled Flag of Australia (converted).svg Wollongong Wolves
Zamalek Flag of Egypt.svg Cancelled Flag of Argentina.svg Boca Juniors

Deportivo La Coruña Flag of Spain.svg Cancelled Flag of Egypt.svg Zamalek

Group B

Palmeiras Flag of Brazil.svg Cancelled Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Olimpia
Galatasaray Flag of Turkey.svg Cancelled Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Al-Hilal

Olimpia Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Cancelled Flag of Turkey.svg Galatasaray
Al-Hilal Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Cancelled Flag of Brazil.svg Palmeiras

Palmeiras Flag of Brazil.svg Cancelled Flag of Turkey.svg Galatasaray
Olimpia Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Cancelled Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Al-Hilal

Group C

Real Madrid Flag of Spain.svg Cancelled Flag of Japan.svg Júbilo Iwata
Hearts of Oak Flag of Ghana.svg Cancelled Flag of the United States.svg Los Angeles Galaxy

Júbilo Iwata Flag of Japan.svg Cancelled Flag of Ghana.svg Hearts of Oak
Los Angeles Galaxy Flag of the United States.svg Cancelled Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid

Real Madrid Flag of Spain.svg Cancelled Flag of Ghana.svg Hearts of Oak
Júbilo Iwata Flag of Japan.svg Cancelled Flag of the United States.svg Los Angeles Galaxy

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Winner of Group ACancelledWinner of Group B

Winner of Group CCancelledBest 2nd place

Match for third place

Loser of Match 19CancelledLoser of Match 20

Final

Winner of Match 19CancelledWinner of Match 20

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