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Club World Championship: What’s It All About?
12/10/2005 11:38:00 AM
FIFA’s Cub World Championship Toyota Cup 2005 kicks off this weekend in Japan, involving the reigning continental club champions from the six FIFA Confederations:
Al Ittihad (Saudi Arabia – ASIA - AFC)
Al Ahly (Egypt – AFRICA - CAF)
Sydney FC (Australia – OCEANIA - OFC)
Deportivo Saprissa (Costa Rica – NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN - CONCACAF)
Sao Paulo (Brazil – SOUTH AMERICA - CONMEBOL)
Liverpool (England – EUROPE - UEFA)
Format & Fixtures
The matches kick off on Sunday 11th December when Al Ittihad take on Al Ahly in Match 1 (referred to by FIFA as one of two quarter-finals) in Tokyo (19:20 local time).
On Monday 13th December, Sydney FC play Deportivo Saprissa in Match 2 in Toyota (19:20).
The winners of Match 1 will then play Sao Paulo in Tokyo on 14th December (19:20), while the winners of Match 2 meet Liverpool on Thursday 15th December in Yokohama (19:20).
There are then matches for 5th place between the losers of Matches 1 and 2 (Tokyo, 19:20, 16th December) and for 3rd place between the losers of the two semi-finals (Yokohama, 18th, 16:20).
The Final takes place on Sunday, 18th December in Yokohama at 19:20 between the winners of the two semi-finals.
History & Origins
The idea of staging a championship (or more accurately, a match) to decide who is the world’s best club team first got off the ground in the late 1950s and involved a showdown between the holders of the European Cup (launched in 1955-56) and the Copa Libertadores (1960). It was called the Intercontinental Cup and was designed to highlight the contrasting styles between Europe and South America.
It was Real Madrid president Santiago Bernabeu, whose club had just won the first five editions of the European Cup, who first proposed staging a match to decide the best club side in the world.
In its early years, the Intercontinental Cup was a two-legged home-and-away affair. Real stormed to the first Cup with a 5-1 second leg win over Uruguayan side Penarol in 1960. Then Pele’s Santos defeated Eusebio’s Benfica and then AC Milan.
But there was a lot of controversy and bad tempoer surrounding many of the matches by the m id to late Sixties, and many European sides regarded the annual challenge as more trouble that it was worth. So European champions Ajax, Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest did not participate during the 1970s, and no competition was staged in 1975 and 1978.
However, Japan offered a solution in 1980 by proposing to host a one-off match, the Toyota Cup (initially in Tokyo, subsequently in Yokohama). The attraction of a largely neutral but enthusiastic crowd in the stadium, plus the all-important global television coverage, gave the world club championship new impetus.
Nacional beat Nottingham Forest in the first edition, and the Toyota Cup gradually grew in stature, continuing to pit South America’s finest against Europe’s.
But FIFA felt that a true world club tournament needed clubs from the whole world – that is to say, each of its confederations.
Before the eclipse of the old-style Intercon$tinental Toyota Cup this year, FIFA controversially launched, in 2000, its first Club World Championship in Brazil.
As a result Manchester United, European Cup holders, were given dispensation by the English FA not to defend the FA Cup they’d won the previous May. It was a deeply unpopular decision. The tournament (won by Corinthians of Brazil) was not exactly a raging success and the second one did not take place as scheduled because clubs and FIFA could not agree on a mutually acceptable compromise between finding space in an already seriously overcrowded fixture calendar, and staging a viable club competition involving champions from each continent.
But a compromise was reached in 2004. The second FIFA Club World Championship would involve the six continental champions participating in a knockout tournament. The four newcomers will play-off for the right to face the seeded European and South American sides in the semi-finals.
Past Winners
Intercontinental Cup
1960 Real Madrid
1961 Peñarol
1962 Santos
1963 Santos
1964 Internazionale
1965 Internazionale
1966 Peñarol
1967 Racing Club
1968 Estudiantes
1969 AC Milan
1970 Feyenoord
1971 Nacional
1972 Ajax Amsterdam
1973 Independiente
1974 Atlético Madrid
1975 No competition
1976 Bayern Munich
1977 Boca Juniors
1978 No competition
1979 Olimpia
Toyota Cup
1980 Nacional
1981 Flamengo
1982 Peñarol
1983 Grêmio
1984 Independiente
1985 Juventus
1986 River Plate
1987 Porto
1988 Nacional
1989 AC Milan
1990 AC Milan
1991 Red Star Belgrade
1992 São Paulo
1993 São Paulo
1994 Vélez Sarsfield
1995 Ajax Amsterdam
1996 Juventus
1997 Borussia Dortmund
1998 Real Madrid
1999 Manchester United
2000 Boca Juniors
2001 Bayern Munich
2002 Real Madrid
2003 Boca Juniors
2004 Porto
Club World Champonship
2000 Corinthians
Of the 11 different nations to have won the Intercontinental Cup or Toyota Cup, Argentine clubs have claimed the most titles – nine.
Boca Juniors, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Penarol and Nacional have all won the title three times.
To date, South America has won the title 22 times o Europe’s 21. |
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