2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

Кубок конфедераций 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Russia
Dates	17 June – 2 July 2017
Teams	8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (1st title)
Runners-up	Chile
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	43 (2.69 per match)
Attendance	628,304 (39,269 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Leon Goretzka Lars Stindl Timo Werner (3 goals each)
Best player	Julian Draxler
Best goalkeeper	Claudio Bravo
Fair play award	Germany

The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup was the 10th FIFA Confederations Cup, a quadrennial international men's football tournament organised by FIFA. It was held in Russia, from 17 June to 2 July 2017, as a prelude to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.^[1]

Russia was announced as the hosts on 2 December 2010 after the country was awarded the hosting rights of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.^[2] The matches were played in four different stadiums across four cities: Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, and Sochi. It was the first time Russia has hosted the tournament, and the third time the Confederations Cup has been held in the European continent. As hosts, Russia qualified automatically for the tournament; they were joined by the six winners of the FIFA confederation championships and the 2014 FIFA World Cup champions, Germany.

The final tournament was played in two stages: a group stage and a latter knockout stage. In the group stage, each team played three games in a group of four, with the winners and runners-up from each group advancing to the knockout stage. In the knockout stage, the four teams competed in single-elimination matches, beginning with the semi-finals and ending with the final match of the tournament. A third-place match was played between the two losing semi-finalist teams.

The defending champions, Brazil, who won the previous three Confederation Cups (2005, 2009, 2013), failed to qualify for the first time since 1995 following their loss on penalties to Paraguay in the quarter-finals of the 2015 Copa América. 2015 AFC Asian Cup winners Australia became the first team to qualify from multiple confederations, having previously represented the OFC in 1997, 2001 and 2005. This was the first Confederations Cup to feature video assistant referees (VARs).

World champions Germany won their first title following a 1–0 win over Chile in the final.^[3]

Qualification

The eight competing teams were the host nation, the reigning FIFA World Cup champions, and the six holders of the FIFA confederation championships. If any team qualified for multiple berths (such as, if the World Cup champions also won their continental championship), the next best-placed team from their continental championship would have qualified.

After Russia secured a spot in the tournament as the hosts, Germany were the first team to qualify via competition, after winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The final match saw the Germans clinch the country's fourth world title through a 1–0 extra-time win against Argentina. Australia were the next team to qualify after beating South Korea 2–1 after extra time, in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final. This victory marked Australia's first Asian Cup win since their move from the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in 2006. It was also the first time a team had become champions of two confederations, following Australia's four OFC Nations Cup titles. Chile were the fourth team to secure a spot at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup after defeating Argentina 4–1 on a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extra time, in the 2015 Copa América Final.

As 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions, Mexico's qualifying path saw them face 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions United States in the 2015 CONCACAF Cup play-off match. The new format, in which the two most recent CONCACAF Gold Cup winners compete to decide the representative team of CONCACAF, was won by Mexico 3–2 after extra time. New Zealand were the sixth team to qualify for the tournament after defeating Papua New Guinea 4–2 on a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extra time, in the 2016 OFC Nations Cup Final.

Portugal were the seventh team to qualify, after defeating host nation France 1–0 after extra time, in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final. The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winning team, Cameroon, took the eighth and final spot with their 2–1 win against Egypt in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Final.^[4] This was the first time in FIFA Confederations Cup history that three national teams from any single confederation (Russia, Germany and Portugal from UEFA) participated in the tournament.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
Russia	UEFA	Hosts	1 2 December 2010	0 (debut)
Germany	UEFA	2014 FIFA World Cup winners	2 13 July 2014	2 (1999, 2005)
Australia	AFC2	2015 AFC Asian Cup winners	3 31 January 2015	3 (1997, 2001, 2005)
Chile	CONMEBOL	2015 Copa América winners	4 4 July 2015	0 (debut)
Mexico	CONCACAF	2015 CONCACAF Cup winners	5 10 October 2015	6 (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2013)
New Zealand	OFC	2016 OFC Nations Cup winners	6 11 June 2016	3 (1999, 2003, 2009)
Portugal	UEFA	UEFA Euro 2016 winners	7 10 July 2016	0 (debut)
Cameroon	CAF	2017 Africa Cup of Nations winners	8 5 February 2017	2 (2001, 2003)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

² All of Australia's previous appearances were as champions of the Oceania Football Confederation. This was their first appearance representing Asia.

Venues

Four cities served as the venues for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.^[5][6] All four venues will also be among the 12 used for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

On 8 October 2015, FIFA and the Local Organising Committee agreed on the official names of the stadiums used during the tournament.^[7]

Saint Petersburg	Moscow Saint Petersburg Kazan Sochi		Moscow
Krestovsky Stadium (Saint Petersburg Stadium)			Otkrytiye Arena (Spartak Stadium)
Capacity: 68,134			Capacity: 45,360
Kazan			Sochi
Kazan Arena			Fisht Olympic Stadium (Fisht Stadium)
Capacity: 45,379			Capacity: 47,659

Schedule

The full schedule was announced by FIFA on 24 July 2015 (without kick-off times, which were confirmed later).^[8] Russia was placed in position A1 in the group stage and played in the opening match against New Zealand at the Zenit Arena in Saint Petersburg on 17 June. The distribution of the knockout stage matches was as follows:^[9]

• The Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg hosted the final on 2 July.
• The Kazan Arena in Kazan hosted the first semi-final on 28 June.
• The Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi hosted the second semi-final on 29 June.
• The Otkrytiye Arena in Moscow hosted the third place match on 2 July.

Draw

The draw took place on 26 November 2016, 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Tennis Academy in Kazan.^[10]

For the draw, the eight teams were allocated to two pots. Pot 1 contained the hosts Russia and the three highest-ranked teams in the November 2016 edition of the FIFA World Rankings (shown in parentheses below):^[11] Germany, Chile, and Portugal. Pot 2 contained the remaining four teams: Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and the winners of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, and regardless of their identity, could not be among the three highest-ranked participating teams),^[12] which was won by Cameroon on 5 February 2017 to complete the line-up.^[13]

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four, with each group containing two teams from Pot 1 and two teams from Pot 2. During the draw procedure, teams were drawn into alternating groups (Group A, then Group B, repeating), and assigned a position within the group by drawing another ball. As hosts, Russia were automatically assigned to Position A1 in the draw. Since there were three teams from Europe, one of the two groups was certain to contain two teams from the same confederation (Russia and Portugal), the first time this happened in a FIFA Confederations Cup.^[14]

Pot 1	Pot 2
Russia (55; hosts)[upper-alpha 1]  Germany (3)  Chile (4)  Portugal (8)	Mexico (18)  Australia (48)  Cameroon (65)  New Zealand (110)

Match officials

A total of 9 refereeing trios (a referee and two assistant referees), 1 support referee, and 8 video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.^[15][16]

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees	Support referee	Video assistant referee
AFC	Fahad Al-Mirdasi	Abdullah Al-Shalawi Mohammed Al-Abakry	–	Ravshan Irmatov
	Alireza Faghani	Reza Sokhandan Mohammadreza Mansouri
CAF	Bakary Gassama	Jean-Claude Birumushahu Marwa Range	–	Malang Diedhiou
CONCACAF	Mark Geiger	Joe Fletcher Charles Justin Morgante	–	Jair Marrufo
CONMEBOL	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana Juan Pablo Belatti	–	Enrique Cáceres Sandro Ricci
	Wilmar Roldán	Alexander Guzman Cristian De La Cruz
OFC	–	–	Abdelkader Zitouni	–
UEFA	Milorad Mažić	Milovan Ristić Dalibor Đurđević	–	Artur Soares Dias Ovidiu Hațegan Clément Turpin
	Gianluca Rocchi	Elenito Di Liberatore Mauro Tonolini
	Damir Skomina	Jure Praprotnik Robert Vukan

Match ball

The official match ball for the Cup was produced by Adidas, and was named "Krasava",^[17] which is a Russian slang word for "beautiful" or "awesome".

Squads

Each team had to name a preliminary squad of 30 players. From the preliminary squad, the team had to name a final squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad could be replaced due to serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match, where the replacement players did not need to be in the preliminary squad.^[18] The official squads were announced by FIFA on 8 June 2017.^[19][20]

Group stage

All times are local, MSK (UTC+3).^[21]

Tiebreakers

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows (regulations Article 19.6):^[18]

If two or more teams were equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings were determined as follows:

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
3	Russia (H)	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
4	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Chile	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
3	Australia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
4	Cameroon	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team was allowed to make a fourth substitution. If still tied after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.^[18]

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 June — Kazan
	Portugal	0 (0)
					2 July — Saint Petersburg
	Chile (p)	0 (3)
					Chile	0
	29 June — Sochi
					Germany	1
	Germany	4
	Mexico	1
					Third place play-off
					2 July — Moscow
					Portugal (a.e.t.)	2
					Mexico	1

Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.^[22] The player awards were all sponsored by Adidas.

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Julian Draxler	Alexis Sánchez	Leon Goretzka
Golden Boot	Silver Boot[23]
Timo Werner	Leon Goretzka	Lars Stindl
3 goals, 2 assists	3 goals, 0 assists
Golden Glove
Claudio Bravo
FIFA Fair Play Award
Germany

Additionally, Fifa.com shortlisted six goals so that football fans could vote on the tournaments' best.^[24] The poll closed on 10 July.

Hyundai Goal of the Tournament
Goalscorer	Opponent	Score	Round
Marco Fabián	Germany	3–1	Semi-finals

Statistics

Goalscorers

43 goals were scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.69 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: FIFA^[25]

Prize money

Based on final position, teams received prize money from FIFA.^[26]

Competition stage	Final position	Prize money (US dollars)
Final	Winners	$5,000,000
	Runners-up	$4,500,000
Match for third place	Third place	$3,500,000
	Fourth place	$3,000,000
Group stage	Fifth to eighth place	$2,000,000

Ticketing

Tickets were distributed in four stages: pre-sale for VISA owners, random draw, first come first served and last minute sales.^[27]

Sponsorship

FIFA partners	FIFA World Cup sponsors	European supporters
Adidas[28] Coca-Cola[29] Gazprom[30] Hyundai–Kia[31] Qatar Airways[32] VISA[33] Wanda Group[34]	Anheuser-Busch InBev[35] Hisense[36] McDonald's[37] Vivo[38]	Alfa-Bank[39]

Broadcasting rights

Territory	Broadcaster	Ref.
Albania	RTSH	[40]
Argentina	TyC, DirecTV	[40]
Armenia	ARMTV	[40]
Australia	SBS, Optus Sport	[40][41]
Austria	ORF	[40]
Azerbaijan	AzTV, İTV	[40]
Belarus	BTRC	[40]
Belgium	VRT, RTBF	[40]
Bolivia	Unitel, Red Uno, DirecTV	[40]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT	[40]
Brazil	Globo, SporTV, Band	[40]
Brunei	Astro	[40]
Bulgaria	BNT	[40]
Canada	CTV, RDS, TSN	[40]
Chile	Canal 13, TVN, Mega, DirecTV	[40]
China	Tencent Sports	[42]
Colombia	Caracol TV, RCN TV, DirecTV	[40]
Costa Rica	Teletica, Sky	[40]
Croatia	HRT	[40]
Cyprus	CyBC	[40]
Czech Republic	ČT	[40]
Denmark	DR, TV 2	[40]
Ecuador	RTS	[40]
El Salvador	TCS, Sky	[40]
Estonia	ERR	[40]
Faroe Islands	DR	[40]
Finland	Yle	[43]
France	TF1, SFR Sport	[40][44]
Germany	ARD, ZDF	[40]
Georgia	GPB	[40]
Greece	ERT	[40]
Greenland	DR, TV 2	[40]
Guatemala	TVA, Sky	[40]
Honduras	Televicentro, Sky	[40]
Hong Kong	LeSports	[40]
Hungary	MTVA	[40]
Iceland	RÚV	[40]
India	Sony Pictures Networks	[40]
Indonesia	RTV, OrangeTV	[45][46]
Ireland	RTÉ	[40]
Israel	KAN	[40]
Italy	Sky	[47]
Japan	Fuji TV, NHK	[40]
Kosovo	RTK	[40]
Latvia	LTV	[40]
Liechtenstein	SRG SSR	[40]
Lithuania	LRT	[40]
Macau	TDM	[48]
Malaysia	Astro	[40]
Malta	PBS	[40]
MENA[note 1]	beIN Sports	[40]
Mexico	Televisa, TV Azteca	[40]
Moldova	TRM	[40]
Montenegro	RTCG	[40]
Nepal	Sony Pictures Networks	[40]
Netherlands	NOS	[40]
New Zealand	Prime, Sky Sport	[49][40][50]
Nicaragua	Ratensa	[40]
Norway	NRK, TV 2	[40]
Pakistan	Sony Pictures Networks	[40]
Panama	Corporación Medcom, Televisora Nacional, Sky	[40]
Paraguay	TyC	[40]
Peru	Latina Televisión, DirecTV	[40]
Philippines	ABS-CBN	[40]
Poland	TVP	[40]
Portugal	RTP	[40][51]
Puerto Rico	Telemundo Puerto Rico, Punto 2	[52]
Romania	TVR	[40]
Russia	Channel One, Match TV	[53][54]
Serbia	RTS	[40]
Slovenia	RTVSLO	[40]
South Africa	SABC, SuperSport	[55]
South Korea	KBS, MBC, SBS	[40]
Spain	GOL	[56]
Sub-Saharan Africa[note 2]	SuperSport, Star Times	[40]
Sweden	SVT	[40]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	[40]
Taiwan	ELTA TV	[57]
Thailand	Channel 3	[58]
Turkey	TRT	[40]
United Kingdom	ITV[note 3]	[40]
United States	Fox, Telemundo	[40]
Uruguay	Monte Carlo TV, Canal 10, Teledoce, TyC	[40]
Venezuela	Meridiano Televisión, Venevisión	[40]

Logistics

Free travel via additional trains travelling between host cities during the sporting events were provided to spectators holding match tickets or documents granting access to the match, along with FAN ID.^[59]

FAN IDs were issued to all spectators of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 for access to a stadium. FAN ID gave the opportunity to use free transport services on the match days in the cities hosting the sports events. The foreign citizens, who come to the Russian Federation as spectators of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 matches, could use their FAN IDs for multiple visa-free entry into and exit from the Russian Federation upon presentation of valid identity documents that are recognized as such by the Russian Federation, during the period that started ten days before the date of the first match and ended ten days after the date of the last match of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.^[60] There were complaints that Russian authorities were canceling FAN IDs without notice very close to kickoff times.^[61]

In 2015, the Russian Ministry of Sport and Local Organising Committee launched a website aimed at providing coverage of the preparation process ahead of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup.^[62]

References

External links

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