FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP

:''This article is about the current tournament involving the champion clubs of all continents. For the trophy called the World Club Championship from 1960-2004, see 'Intercontinental Cup'''.
The 'FIFA Club World Cup', formerly known as the 'FIFA Club World Championship', is a football competition contested between the champion clubs from all 6 continental confederations, although since 2007 the champions of Oceania must play a qualifying play-off against the champion club of the host country.
The first competition took place in Brazil in January 2000. It was intended by FIFA to be a replacement for the Intercontinental Cup (also known as the Toyota Cup), which was contested annually in Tokyo, Japan by the champions of Europe and South America.
The new tournament was not popular in Europe, but nevertheless a second edition was penciled in for Spain in 2001, to feature 12 teams. This was cancelled owing to a combination of factors, most importantly the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL. It was then intended to hold the event in 2003, but this also failed to happen. FIFA eventually agreed terms with the Toyota Cup to merge the two competitions, with the first installment of the relaunched Club World Championship held in Japan between December 11 and December 18 2005.
Japan has hosted the yearly competition since, but open bidding processes for hosting it will begin with the 2009 edition.^[1]

Contents

Champions

Honours

Championships by team

Championships by Country

Championships by Confederation

Participations by Country

See also

References

External links

Champions

''For finals including both Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, see Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup statistics.''

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue
2007 ''Details''
2006 ''Details''	'Internacional'	'1 - 0' '	FC Barcelona	International Stadium, Yokohama
2005 ''Details''	'São Paulo FC'	'1 - 0 '	Liverpool FC	International Stadium, Yokohama
2001-2004 ''2001 Details''	'Not Held'
2000 ''Details''	'Corinthians'	0 - 0 (pen) '4 - 3'	Vasco da Gama	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro

Honours

Year	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball	Golden Shoe	Fair Play Award
2006	Deco	Iarley	Ronaldinho	Mohamed Aboutrika (3)	FC Barcelona
2005	Rogerio Ceni	Steven Gerrard	Cristian Bolaños	Amoroso (2) Peter Crouch (2) Alvaro Saborio (2) Mohammed Noor (2)	Liverpool FC
2000	Edílson	Edmundo	Romário	Romário (3) Nicolas Anelka (3)	Al-Nassr

Championships by team

''For statistics including both Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, see Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup statistics.''

Team	FCC	Cup(s)	Year(s)
Corinthians	BRA	1	(2000)
Internacional	BRA	1	(2006)
São Paulo FC	BRA	1	(2005)

Championships by Country

Country	Teams	Cups	Years
Brazil	3	3	(2000, 2005, 2006)

Championships by Confederation

★ CONMEBOL 3 times

Participations by Country

''see FIFA Club World Cup participants''

See also

★ Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup statistics

★ Intercontinental Cup

★ FIFA

References

1. Organising Committee strengthens FIFA Club World Cup format

External links

★ 2000 Competition official site

★ 2005 Competition official site

★ 2006 Competition official site

★ OleOle's LIVE Coverage of the FIFA Club World Cup 2006

★ Sports Illustrated coverage of the FIFA World Club Championship