FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2007 presented by Toyota Toyota プレゼンツ FIFAクラブワールドカップ ジャパン2007 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Japan |
Dates | 7–16 December |
Teams | 7 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 3 (in 3 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Milan (1st title) |
Runners-up | Boca Juniors |
Third place | Urawa Red Diamonds |
Fourth place | Étoile du Sahel |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 7 |
Goals scored | 21 (3 per match) |
Attendance | 315,279 (45,040 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Washington (Urawa Red Diamonds) 3 goals |
Best player(s) | Kaká (Milan) |
Fair play award | Urawa Red Diamonds |
The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2007 presented by Toyota for sponsorship reasons) was a football tournament played in Japan from 7 to 16 December 2007. It was the fourth FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament organised by FIFA for the winners of each confederation's top continental club tournament.
Seven teams from the six confederations entered the tournament; Defending champions Internacional did not qualify as they were eliminated in the second stage of the 2007 Copa Libertadores.
Italian side Milan became the first European team to win the Club World Cup with a 4–2 victory over Argentinian club Boca Juniors in the final. That title made them the most successful team in the world in terms of official international trophies won (18).
The FIFA Executive Committee appointed Japan as hosts of the 2007 tournament on 15 September 2006 during their meeting in Zürich, Switzerland. [1]
The qualified teams were decided during 2007 through the six major continental competitions. The winner of each regional club championship participated in the 2007 Club World Cup. In March 2007, the FIFA executive committee introduced a qualifying playoff between the 2007 OFC Champions League champion and the host nation's 2007 J. League champion, as opposed to previous years, in which the Oceania champions were given direct entry into the tournament. [2] In order to avoid the participation of two teams from the same country, the best-placed non-Japanese team in the AFC Champions League would take the "host" berth if a Japanese team won that competition, [3] which indeed happened as Urawa Red Diamonds won the 2007 AFC Champions League. Also, the fifth-place match was eliminated for this edition.
It was the first participation in the FIFA Club World Cup for all seven teams that qualified.
Team | Confederation | Qualification | Participation |
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Entering in the semi-finals | |||
Milan | UEFA | Winner of 2006–07 UEFA Champions League | 1st |
Boca Juniors | CONMEBOL | Winner of 2007 Copa Libertadores | 1st |
Entering in the quarter-finals | |||
Étoile du Sahel | CAF | Winner of 2007 CAF Champions League | 1st |
Urawa Red Diamonds | AFC | Winner of 2007 AFC Champions League | 1st |
Pachuca | CONCACAF | Winner of 2007 CONCACAF Champions' Cup | 1st |
Entering in the play-off for quarter-finals | |||
Sepahan | AFC (host) [note 1] | Runner-up of 2007 AFC Champions League [note 1] | 1st |
Waitakere United | OFC | Winner of 2007 OFC Champions League | 1st |
Notes
Tokyo, Yokohama and Toyota were the three cities to serve as venues for the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup.
For a list of all the squads of this tournament, see the article 2007 FIFA Club World Cup squads.
Confederation | Referee | Assistant referees |
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AFC | Mark Shield (Australia) Hiroyoshi Takayama (Japan) | Ben Wilson (Australia) Nathan Gibson (Australia) |
CAF | Coffi Codjia (Benin) | Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon) Celestin Ntagungira (Rwanda) |
CONCACAF | Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico) | Jose Luis Camargo (Mexico) Pedro Rebollar (Mexico) |
CONMEBOL | Jorge Larrionda (Uruguayan) | Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguayan) Miguel Nievas (Ecuador) |
OFC | Peter O'Leary (New Zealand) | Brent Best (New Zealand) Matthew Taro (Solomon Islands) |
UEFA | Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark) | Bill Hansen (Denmark) Henryk Sonderby (Turkey) |
Play-off for quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
9 December – Tokyo | ||||||||||||||
Étoile du Sahel | 1 | 12 December – Tokyo | ||||||||||||
Pachuca | 0 | Étoile du Sahel | 0 | |||||||||||
7 December – Tokyo | Boca Juniors | 1 | 16 December – Yokohama | |||||||||||
Sepahan | 3 | 10 December – Toyota | Boca Juniors | 2 | ||||||||||
Waitakere United | 1 | Sepahan | 1 | 13 December – Yokohama | Milan | 4 | ||||||||
Urawa Red Diamonds | 3 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 0 | |||||||||||
Milan | 1 | Match for third place | ||||||||||||
16 December – Yokohama | ||||||||||||||
Étoile du Sahel | 2 (2) | |||||||||||||
Urawa Red Diamonds (p) | 2 (4) | |||||||||||||
All times local (UTC+9)
Sepahan | 3–1 | Waitakere United |
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Emad 3', 4' Abu Al-Hail 47' | Report | Aghili 74' (o.g.) |
Étoile du Sahel | 1–0 | Pachuca |
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Narry 85' | Report |
Sepahan | 1–3 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
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Karimi 80' | Report | Nagai 32' Washington 54' Aghili 70' (o.g.) |
Étoile du Sahel | 0–1 | Boca Juniors |
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Report | Cardozo 37' |
Urawa Red Diamonds | 0–1 | Milan |
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Report | Seedorf 68' |
Étoile du Sahel | 2–2 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
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Ben Frej 5' (pen.) Chermiti 75' | Report | Washington 35', 70' |
Penalties | ||
Nafkha Ghezal Ben Nasser Traoui | 2–4 | Washington Abe Nagai Hosogai |
1 own goal
2 own goals
Adidas Golden Ball Toyota Award | Adidas Silver Ball | Adidas Bronze Ball |
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Kaká (Milan) | Clarence Seedorf (Milan) | Rodrigo Palacio (Boca Juniors) |
FIFA Fair Play Award | ||
Urawa Red Diamonds |
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