2007 FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2007
FIFA Club World Cup 2007 official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Japan
Dates	7 December - 16 December
Teams	7 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Milan (1st title)
Runner-up	Boca Juniors
Third place	Urawa Red Diamonds
Fourth place	Étoile du Sahel
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Goals scored	21 (3 per match)
Attendance	315,279 (45,040 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Washington (3 goals)
Best player	Kaká
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The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup was a football tournament played in Japan from 7 December to 16 December 2007. It was the fourth FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament organised by FIFA for the winners of each confederation's top continental club tournament.

The trophy was won by Milan, who became the most successful team in the world in terms of international trophies won (18).

Contents 1 Qualifying teams 2 Squads 3 Referees 4 Matches 4.1 Bracket 4.2 Play-off 4.3 Quarter-finals 4.4 Semi-finals 4.5 Match for third place 4.6 Final 5 Scorers 6 Tournament round-up 6.1 Final standings 6.2 Awards 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Qualifying teams

The qualifying teams were decided during 2007 through the 6 major continental competitions. The winner of each regional club championship participated in the 2007 Club World Cup. In March 2007, the FIFA executive committee introduced a qualifying playoff between the 2007 OFC Champions League champion and the host nation's 2007 J. League champion, as opposed to previous years in which the Oceania champions were given direct entry into the tournament.^[1] In order to avoid the participation of two teams from the same country, the best-placed non-Japanese team in the AFC Champions League would take the "host" berth if a Japanese team won that competition,^[2] which indeed happened as Urawa Red Diamonds won the 2007 AFC Champions League. Also, the fifth-place match was eliminated for this edition.

Team	Association	Qualification
Boca Juniors	CONMEBOL	Winner of Copa Libertadores 2007
Milan	UEFA	Winner of UEFA Champions League 2006-07
Étoile du Sahel	CAF	Winner of CAF Champions League 2007
Pachuca	CONCACAF	Winner of CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2007
Urawa Red Diamonds	AFC	Winner of AFC Champions League 2007
Play-in qualification
Sepahan	JFA	Runner up of AFC Champions League 2007†
Waitakere United	OFC	Winner of OFC Champions League 2007

† Sepahan took Japan's slot due to a Japanese team winning the AFC Champions League.

[edit] Squads

For a list of all the squads of this tournament, see the article 2007 FIFA Club World Cup squads.

[edit] Referees

Africa Coffi Codjia Assistants: Evarist Menkouande Celestin Ntagungira Asia Mark Shield Hiroyoshi Takayama Assistants: Ben Wilson Nathan Gibson North, Central America and Caribbean Marco Rodríguez Assistants: Jose Luis Camargo Pedro Rebollar

South America Jorge Larrionda Assistants: Mauricio Espinosa Miguel Nievas Europe Claus Bo Larsen Assistants: Bill Hansen Henryk Sonderby Oceania Peter O'Leary Assistants: Brent Best Matthew Taro

[edit] Matches

[edit] Bracket

Play-off

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

7 December - Tokyo

Sepahan

3

10 December - Toyota City

Waitakere United

1

Sepahan

1

13 December - Yokohama

Urawa Red Diamonds

3

Urawa Red Diamonds

0

Milan

1

16 December - Yokohama

Milan

4

9 December - Tokyo

Boca Juniors

2

Étoile du Sahel

1

12 December - Tokyo

Pachuca

0

Étoile du Sahel

0

Third place

Boca Juniors

1

Urawa Red Diamonds

2 (4)

Étoile du Sahel

2 (2)

16 December - Yokohama

All times local (UTC+9)

[edit] Play-off

2007-12-07 19:45	Sepahan	3 – 1	Waitakere United	National Stadium, Tokyo Attendance: 24,788 Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)
	Emad Mohammed  3', 4' Abdul-Wahab  47'	(Report)	Aghili  74' (o.g.)

[edit] Quarter-finals

2007-12-09 14:45	Étoile du Sahel	1 – 0	Pachuca	National Stadium, Tokyo Attendance: 34,934 Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)
	Narry  85'	(Report)

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2007-12-10 19:30	Sepahan	1 – 3	Urawa Red Diamonds	Toyota Stadium, Toyota City Attendance: 33,263 Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)
	Karimi  80'	(Report)	Nagai  32' Washington  54' Aghili  70' (o.g.)

[edit] Semi-finals

2007-12-12 19:30	Étoile du Sahel	0 – 1	Boca Juniors	National Stadium, Tokyo Attendance: 37,255 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
		(Report)	Cardozo  37'

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2007-12-13 19:30	Urawa Red Diamonds	0 – 1	Milan	International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama Attendance: 67,005 Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)
		(Report)	Seedorf  68'

[edit] Match for third place

2007-12-16 16:00	Étoile du Sahel	2 – 2	Urawa Red Diamonds	International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama Attendance: 53,363 Referee: Peter O'Leary (New Zealand)
	Ben Frej  5' (pen.) Chermiti  75'	(Report)	Washington  35', 70'

		Penalties
	Nafkha Ghezal Ben Nasser Traoui	2 – 4	Washington Abe Nagai Hosogai

[edit] Final

2007-12-16 19:30	Boca Juniors	2 – 4	Milan	International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama Attendance: 68,263 Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)
	Palacio  22' Ambrosini  85' (o.g.)	(Report)	Inzaghi  21', 71' Nesta  50' Kaká  61'

FIFA Club World Cup 2007 Winners
Milan First Title

[edit] Scorers

3 goals Washington (Urawa Red Diamonds) 2 goals Filippo Inzaghi (Milan) Emad Mohammed (Sepahan) 1 goal Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail (Sepahan) Saber Ben Frej (Étoile du Sahel) Neri Cardozo (Boca Juniors) Mohamed Amine Chermiti (Étoile du Sahel) Kaká (Milan)

1 goal Mahmoud Karimi (Sepahan) Yuichiro Nagai (Urawa Red Diamonds) Moussa Narry (Étoile du Sahel) Alessandro Nesta (Milan) Rodrigo Palacio (Boca Juniors) Clarence Seedorf (Milan) 1 own goal Massimo Ambrosini (Milan) 2 own goals Hadi Aghili (Sepahan)

[edit] Tournament round-up

[edit] Final standings Pos Team Nation Confederation 1 Milan  Italy UEFA 2 Boca Juniors  Argentina CONMEBOL 3 Urawa Red Diamonds  Japan AFC 4 Étoile du Sahel  Tunisia CAF 5 Sepahan  Iran AFC 6 Pachuca  Mexico CONCACAF 7 Waitakere United  New Zealand OFC

[edit] Awards Golden Ball Silver Ball Bronze Ball Kaká (Milan) Seedorf (Milan) Palacio (Boca Juniors) Fair play Urawa Red Diamonds

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• FIFA Club World Cup 2007 official site

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