Tournament details | |
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Country | Canada United States |
Teams | 11 (from 2 confederations) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runner-up | n/a |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 9 |
Goals scored | 30 (3.33 per match) |
Attendance | 304,285 (33,809 per match) |
Top goal scorer(s) | ![]() (3 goals) |
The 2012 World Football Challenge was the third World Football Challenge event, a series of friendly soccer matches played in Canada and the United States in July and August. The series opened on July 18. [1] The opening match was between the Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) and Chelsea of the English Premier League, which Chelsea won 4–2. [2] Real Madrid, who had won the equivalent tournament the previous year, were the only team to win all their matches in normal play.
The following eleven clubs took part in the 2012 World Football Challenge.
Eight venues were selected for the 2012 World Football Challenge.
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Toronto, Ontario |
Rogers Centre |
Capacity: 49,808 |
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Carson, California | Miami Gardens, Florida | Whitney, Nevada | New York, New York |
Home Depot Center | Sun Life Stadium | Sam Boyd Stadium | Yankee Stadium |
Capacity: 27,000 | Capacity: 74,918 | Capacity: 36,800 | Capacity: 52,325 |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Seattle, Washington | Washington, D.C. | |
Lincoln Financial Field | CenturyLink Field | RFK Stadium | |
Capacity: 67,594 | Capacity: 67,000 | Capacity: 56,692 | |
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Toronto FC | 1–1 | Liverpool |
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Amarikwa ![]() | Report | Morgan ![]() |
Chelsea | 1–1 | Paris Saint-Germain |
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Piazon ![]() | Report | Nenê ![]() |
Chelsea | 0–1 | Milan |
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Report | Emanuelson ![]() |
D.C. United | 1–1 | Paris Saint-Germain |
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De Rosario ![]() | Report | Ibrahimović ![]() |
Los Angeles Galaxy | 1–5 | Real Madrid |
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Lopes ![]() | Report | Higuaín ![]() Di María ![]() Callejón ![]() Morata ![]() Jesé ![]() |
Real Madrid | 2–1 | Santos Laguna |
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Alonso ![]() Khedira ![]() | Report | Suárez ![]() |
Real Madrid | 2–0 | Celtic |
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Callejón ![]() Benzema ![]() | Report |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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Celtic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Chelsea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
D.C. United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Los Angeles Galaxy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Milan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Paris Saint-Germain | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Real Madrid | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
Santos Laguna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Seattle Sounders FC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Toronto FC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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