# 2005 FIFA Club World Championship

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.
| 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 |
| YokohamaTokyoToyota2005 FIFA Club World Championship (Japan) |||

## 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 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 11 December – Tokyo | 11 December – Tokyo | | | | |
| Al-Ittihad | 1 | 14 December – Tokyo | 14 December – Tokyo | | |
| Al Ahly | 0 | Al-Ittihad | 2 | | |
| | | São Paulo | 3 | 18 December – Yokohama | 18 December – Yokohama |
| 12 December – Toyota | 12 December – Toyota | | | São Paulo | 1 |
| Sydney FC | 0 | 15 December – Yokohama | 15 December – Yokohama | Liverpool | 0 |
| Saprissa | 1 | Saprissa | 0 | | |
| | | Liverpool | 3 | | |
| | | Match for fifth place | Match for fifth place | Match for third place | Match for third place |
| | | 16 December – Tokyo | 16 December – Tokyo | 18 December – Yokohama | 18 December – Yokohama |
| | | Al Ahly | 1 | Al-Ittihad | 2 |
| | | Sydney FC | 2 | Saprissa | 3 |

### Final
## Goalscorers

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

## 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.

## Awards

| Adidas Golden Ball Toyota Award | Adidas Silver Ball | Adidas Bronze Ball |
| Rogério Ceni (São Paulo) | Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) | Christian Bolaños (Saprissa) |
| FIFA Fair Play Award |||
| Liverpool |||