| FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Japan |
| Dates | 11 December – 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 Mohammed Noor Peter Crouch Alvaro Saborio (2 goals each) |
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The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup was the first edition of new tournament risen by the merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Championship (which had been played in a pilot edition in 2000 but later discontinued).
The football tournament was held in Japan from 11 December to 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club São Paulo. It is FIFA's biggest club football tournament, though is not as highly regarded by most sides as regional tournaments such as the Copa Libertadores and UEFA Champions League.
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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.
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.
The following teams qualified during 2005:
| Team | Confederation | Qualification |
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| Enter in the semi-finals | ||
| Liverpool | UEFA | 2004–05 UEFA Champions League winners |
| São Paulo | CONMEBOL | 2005 Copa Libertadores winners |
| Enter in the quarter-finals | ||
| Al-Ahly | CAF | 2005 CAF Champions League winners |
| Al-Ittihad | AFC | 2005 AFC Champions League winners |
| Saprissa | CONCACAF | 2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup winners |
| Sydney FC | OFC | 2004–05 Oceania Club Championship winners |
For a list of all squads which appeared at the tournament, see 2005 FIFA Club World Championship squads.
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| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| 11 December – Tokyo | ||||||||||||||
| Al-Ittihad | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 14 December – Tokyo | ||||||||||||||
| Al-Ahly | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Al-Ittihad | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Fifth place | ||||||||||||||
| São Paulo | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Al-Ahly | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 18 December – Yokohama | ||||||||||||||
| Sydney FC | 2 | |||||||||||||
| São Paulo | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 16 December – Tokyo | 12 December – Toyota City | |||||||||||||
| Liverpool | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Sydney FC | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 15 December – Yokohama | ||||||||||||||
| Saprissa | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Saprissa | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Third place | ||||||||||||||
| Liverpool | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Al-Ittihad | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Saprissa | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 18 December – Yokohama | ||||||||||||||
| 11 December 2005 19:20 |
Al-Ittihad | 1 – 0 | Al-Ahly Cairo | Olympic Stadium, Tokyo Attendance: 28,281 Referee: Graham Poll (England) |
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| Noor 78' | Report |
| 12 December 2005 19:20 |
Sydney | 0 – 1 | Deportivo Saprissa | Toyota Stadium, Toyota City Attendance: 28,538 Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan) |
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| Report | Bolaños 47' |
| 14 December 2005 19:20 |
Al-Ittihad | 2 – 3 | São Paulo | Olympic Stadium, Tokyo Attendance: 31,510 Referee: Alain Sars (France) |
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| Noor 33' Al-Montashari 68' |
Report | Amoroso 16', 47' Rogério Ceni 57' (pen.) |
| 15 December 2005 19:20 |
Deportivo Saprissa | 0 – 3 | Liverpool | International Stadium, Yokohama Attendance: 43,902 Referee: Carlos Chandia (Chile) |
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| Report | Crouch 3', 58' Gerrard 32' |
| 16 December 2005 19:20 |
Al-Ahly Cairo | 1 – 2 | Sydney | Olympic Stadium, Tokyo Attendance: 15,951 Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan) |
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| Moteab 45' | Report | Yorke 35' Carney 66' |
| 18 December 2005 16:20 |
Al-Ittihad | 2 – 3 | Deportivo Saprissa | International Stadium, Yokohama Attendance: 46,453 Referee: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco) |
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| Kallon 28' Job 53' (pen.) |
Report | Saborío 13', 85' (pen.) Gómez 89' |
| 18 December 2005 19:20 |
São Paulo | 1 – 0 | Liverpool | International Stadium, Yokohama Attendance: 66,821 Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico) |
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| Mineiro 27' | Report |
| Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball | Player of the Final |
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| Rogerio Ceni (São Paulo) |
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) |
Christian Bolaños (Saprissa) |
Rogerio Ceni (São Paulo) |
| Pos | Team | Confederation | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| 1 | São Paulo | CONMEBOL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 |
| 2 | Liverpool | UEFA | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 |
| 3 | Saprissa | CONCACAF | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 |
| 4 | Al-Ittihad | AFC | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 |
| 5 | Sydney FC | OFC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | Al-Ahly | CAF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 |
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]
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