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2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup
FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005; FIFAクラブワールドチャンピオンシップトヨタカップジャパン2005
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Tournament details
Host country	Japan
Dates	11–18 December
Teams	6 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	São Paulo (1st title)
Runners-up	Liverpool
Third place	Saprissa
Fourth place	Al-Ittihad
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Goals scored	19 (2.71 per match)
Attendance	261,456 (37,351 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Amoroso (São Paulo); Mohammed Noor (Al-Ittihad); Peter Crouch (Liverpool); Álvaro Saborío (Saprissa); 2 goals each
Best player(s)	Rogério Ceni (São Paulo)
Fair play award	Liverpool
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The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship (officially known as the FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005 for sponsorship reasons) was the second FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition organised by FIFA for the champion clubs of the six continental confederations. It was the first to be held after by the merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Championship (which had been played in a first edition in 2000).

The tournament was held in Japan from 11 to 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club São Paulo, who defeated English side Liverpool 1–0 in the final.

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

It was all six clubs' first appearance in the FIFA Club World Championship.

Location of teams of the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship

Team	Confederation	Qualification	Participation
Entering in the semi-finals
Liverpool	UEFA	2004–05 UEFA Champions League winners	1st
São Paulo	CONMEBOL	2005 Copa Libertadores winners	1st
Entering in the quarter-finals
Al Ahly	CAF	2005 CAF Champions League winners	1st
Al-Ittihad	AFC	2005 AFC Champions League winners	1st
Saprissa	CONCACAF	2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup winners	1st
Sydney FC	OFC	2005 Oceania Club Championship winners	1st

Venues

Tokyo, Yokohama and Toyota were the three cities to serve as venues for the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup.

Yokohama	Tokyo	Toyota
International Stadium Yokohama	National Stadium	Toyota Stadium
35°30′36.16″N 139°36′22.49″E / 35.5100444°N 139.6062472°E / 35.5100444; 139.6062472 (International Stadium Yokohama)	35°40′41.00″N 139°42′53.00″E / 35.6780556°N 139.7147222°E / 35.6780556; 139.7147222 (National Olympic Stadium)	35°05′04.02″N 137°10′14.02″E / 35.0844500°N 137.1705611°E / 35.0844500; 137.1705611 (Toyota Stadium)
Capacity: 72,327	Capacity: 57,363	Capacity: 45,000

Yokohama Tokyo Toyota 2005 FIFA Club World Championship (Japan)

Squads

Match officials

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees
AFC	Toru Kamikawa	Yoshikazu Hiroshima Kim Dae-Young
CAF	Mohamed Guezzaz	Jean Marie Endeng Zogo
CONCACAF	Benito Archundia	Arturo Velázquez Héctor Vergara
CONMEBOL	Carlos Eugênio Simon Carlos Chandia	Cristian Julio Mario Vargas
UEFA	Graham Poll	Glenn Turner Philip Sharp
UEFA	Alain Sars	Frédéric Arnault Vincent Texier

Matches


Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

11 December – Tokyo

Al-Ittihad	1	14 December – Tokyo

Al Ahly	0	Al-Ittihad	2

		São Paulo	3	18 December – Yokohama

12 December – Toyota				São Paulo	1

Sydney FC	0	15 December – Yokohama		Liverpool	0

Saprissa	1	Saprissa	0

		Liverpool	3



		Match for fifth place		Match for third place

		16 December – Tokyo		18 December – Yokohama

		Al Ahly	1	Al-Ittihad	2

		Sydney FC	2	Saprissa	3

Quarter-finals

11 December 2005

19:20

Al-Ittihad	1–0	Al Ahly
Noor 78'	Report

Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 28,281

Referee: Graham Poll (England)

12 December 2005

19:20

Sydney FC	0–1	Saprissa
	Report	Bolaños 47'

Toyota Stadium, Toyota

Attendance: 28,538

Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)

Semi-finals

14 December 2005

19:20

Al-Ittihad	2–3	São Paulo
Noor 33' Al-Montashari 68'	Report	Amoroso 16', 47' Ceni 57' (pen.)

Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 31,510

Referee: Alain Sars (France)

15 December 2005

19:20

Saprissa	0–3	Liverpool
	Report	Crouch 3', 58' Gerrard 32'

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Attendance: 43,902

Referee: Carlos Chandia (Chile)

Match for fifth place

16 December 2005

19:20

Al Ahly	1–2	Sydney FC
Moteab 45'	Report	Yorke 35' Carney 66'

Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 15,951

Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)

Match for third place

18 December 2005

16:20

Al-Ittihad	2–3	Saprissa
Kallon 28' Job 53' (pen.)	Report	Saborío 13', 85' (pen.) Gómez 89'

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Attendance: 46,453

Referee: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)

Final

18 December 2005

19:20

São Paulo	1–0	Liverpool
Mineiro 27'	Report

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Attendance: 66,821

Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)

Goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Amoroso	São Paulo	2
	Peter Crouch	Liverpool
	Mohammed Noor	Al-Ittihad
	Álvaro Saborío	Saprissa
5	Hamad Al-Montashari	Al-Ittihad	1
	Christian Bolaños	Saprissa
	David Carney	Sydney FC
	Steven Gerrard	Liverpool
	Rónald Gómez	Saprissa
	Joseph-Désiré Job	Al-Ittihad
	Mohammed Kallon	Al-Ittihad
	Mineiro	São Paulo
	Emad Moteab	Al Ahly
	Rogério Ceni	São Paulo
	Dwight Yorke	Sydney FC

Reaction

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.^[1]