FIFA Confederations Cup

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FIFA Confederations Cup
Sport	Association football
Founded	1992
No. of teams	8
Continent	International (FIFA)
Most recent champion(s)	Brazil

The FIFA Confederations Cup is a Association football tournament for national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships (CAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, AFC, OFC, CONCACAF), along with the FIFA World Cup winner and the host country, to bring the number of teams up to eight. Artemio Franchi Trophy and 1980 Mundialito, or Copa D'Oro, are its precursors. When the World champion is also winner of its confederation championship, then the World Cup runner-up also enters the Confederations Cup, ensuring eight teams for the tournament. In the 2005 tournament, however, Brazil, as World champion, and World Cup runner-up Germany, as host, had qualified. When Brazil also won the Copa América, the vacant eighth spot was awarded to Argentina, runner-up in the Copa América.

On three previous occasions have teams declined to participate in the tournament. The Euro 96 winner Germany declined to participate in the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup, and was replaced by the Czech Republic, the runner-up in that tournament. France, 1998 FIFA World Cup winner, declined to participate in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup, and was replaced by Brazil, the 1998 World Cup runner-up (and also 1997 Copa America champion). Germany, the runner-up in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, declined to take part in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, and was replaced by Turkey, the third-placed team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

The tournament was originally organised by and held in Saudi Arabia and called the King Fahd Cup (or Intercontinental Championship), contested in 1992 and 1995 by the Saudi national side and some continental champions. In 1997, FIFA took over the organization of the tournament, named it the FIFA Confederations Cup and staged the competition every two years.

From 2005, the Confederations Cup is to be held once in every four years, one year prior to each World Cup in the host country of the forthcoming World Cup. It is now considered a dress-rehearsal for the World Cup it precedes; it uses around half of the stadia intended for use at the following year's World Cup and gives the host nation, who qualify for that tournament automatically, a vital taste of competitive football during two years of friendlies.

For the next edition of the tournament, host nation South Africa, Italy (2006 FIFA World Cup winner), the USA (2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner), Brazil (Copa América 2007 winner), Iraq (2007 AFC Asian Cup winner) and Egypt (2008 African Cup of Nations winner) are already qualified. However, starting with this tournament, the South American and European champions will no longer be obliged to take part.

1 Results
- 1.1 Summaries
- 1.2 Successful national teams
2 Broadcasting rights
3 Goalscorers
- 3.1 Top scorers
- 3.2 Overall Topscorers
4 Summary
- 4.1 Participations Details
- 4.2 General Statistics
5 References

[edit] Results

[edit] Summaries

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
1992 Details	Saudi Arabia	Argentina	3–1	Saudi Arabia	USA	5–2	Côte d'Ivoire
1995 Details	Saudi Arabia	Denmark	2–0	Argentina	Mexico	1–1 (5–4 pens)	Nigeria
1997 Details	Saudi Arabia	Brazil	6–0	Australia	Czech Republic	1–0	Uruguay
1999 Details	Mexico	Mexico	4–3	Brazil	USA	2–0	Saudi Arabia
2001 Details	South Korea & Japan	France	1–0	Japan	Australia	1–0	Brazil
2003 Details	France	France	1–0 asdet	Cameroon	Turkey	2–1	Colombia
2005 Details	Germany	Brazil	4–1	Argentina	Germany	4–3 aet	Mexico
2009 Details	South Africa
2013 Details	Brazil

NOTE: The 1992 and 1995 tournaments were named the King Fahd Cup. FIFA recognizes them officially as Confederations Cups now.^[1]

[edit] Successful national teams

Team	Titles	Runners-up
Brazil	2 (1997, 2005)	1 (1999)
France	2 (2001, 2003*)	-
Argentina	1 (1992)	2 (1995, 2005)
Denmark	1 (1995)	-
Mexico	1 (1999*)	-
Australia	-	1 (1997)
Saudi Arabia	-	1 (1992*)
Japan	-	1 (2001*)
Cameroon	-	1 (2003)

* = hosts

[edit] Broadcasting rights

United Kingdom: Live coverage of selected matches has been shown on terrestrial channel Five, formerly known as Channel 5. Delayed coverage is usually shared between Five and satellite/cable network British Eurosport. Seen as a lower key event, the Confederations Cup has never been shown on main BBC and ITV channels. The rights are generally bought up quietly, around six months before the main event for much less money than the FIFA World Cup.
In Italy RAI must, by law, broadcast the Azzurri matches, therefore the state broadcaster is very likely to buy part of the rights (if not all of them, since they are cheaper than the World Cup ones) for the Confederations Cup when Italy participates. In the past, the 2003 edition was broadcasted by a syndication of local televisions, the 2005 edition instead, by SKY.
Australia: In the past, Australia frequently qualified for the tournament as champions of Oceania. This meant the tournament was considered quite significant for Australian soccer, and the vast majority of games were shown live on SBS, a public Free-to-air network. Now that Australia has entered the Asian Football Confederation, qualification for this tournament, and therefore transmission of the Cup on Australian television, will be less likely.

[edit] Goalscorers

see FIFA Confederations Cup goalscorers.

[edit] Top scorers

Year	Player	Goals
1992	Gabriel Batistuta Bruce Murray	2
1995	Luis García	3
1997	Romário	7
1999	Ronaldinho Cuauhtémoc Blanco Marzouq Al-Otaibi	6
2001	Eric Carrière Robert Pirès Patrick Vieira Sylvain Wiltord Shaun Murphy Takayuki Suzuki Hwang Sun-Hong	2
2003	Thierry Henry	4
2005	Adriano	5

[edit] Overall Topscorers

Player	Country	Goals
Cuauhtémoc Blanco	MEX	9
Ronaldinho	BRA	9
Romário	BRA	7
Adriano	BRA	7
Robert Pirès	FRA	6
Marzouq Al-Otaibi	KSA	6
John Aloisi	AUS	5
Vladimír Šmicer	CZE	5

[edit] Summary

[edit] Participations Details

Team	1992	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2009	Total
	-	-	W	F	4°	1R	W	Q	6
	-	3º	1R	W	1R	-	4°	-	5
	F	1R	1R	4°	-	-	-	-	4
	-	1R	-	-	F	1R	1R	-	4
	W	F	-	-	-	-	F	-	3
	-	-	F	-	3°	-	1R	-	3
	3°	-	-	3°	-	1R	-	Q	4
	-	-	-	-	1R	F	-	-	2
	-	-	-	-	W	W	-	-	2
	-	-	-	1R	-	-	3°	-	2
	-	-	-	1R	-	1R	-	-	2
	-	-	-	1R	-	-	-	Q	2
	-	-	1R	-	-	-	-	Q	2
	-	-	-	1R	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	1R	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	4°	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	1R	-	-	-	1
	4°	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	W	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	1R	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	1R	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	1
	-	4°	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	3°	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	1R	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	3°	-	-	1
	-	-	4°	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	1

1R: eliminated in the First Round
F: Finalist
W: Champion
Q: Qualified

[edit] General Statistics

Team		P	W	D	L	GF	GC	Dif	Pts	%
1	France	10	9	0	1	24	5	+19	27	90,0%
2	Denmark	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7	77,7%
3	South Korea	3	2	0	1	3	6	-3	6	66,6%
4	Brazil	23	13	5	5	50	20	+30	44	63,7%
5	Argentina	10	5	3	2	22	14	+18	18	60,0%
6	Uruguay	5	3	0	2	8	6	+2	9	60,0%
7	Nigeria	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	5	55,5%
8	Germany	8	4	1	3	17	17	0	13	54,1%
9	Cameroon	8	4	1	3	5	5	0	13	54,1%
10	Mexico	19	8	5	6	33	28	+5	29	50,8%
11	Czech Republic	5	2	1	2	10	7	+3	7	46,6%
12	Turkey	5	2	1	2	8	8	0	7	46,6%
13	Japan	13	5	2	6	15	16	-1	17	43,5%
14	USA	10	4	1	5	12	11	+1	13	43,3%
15	Australia	13	5	1	7	13	20	-7	16	41,0%
16	Colombia	5	2	0	3	5	5	0	6	40,0%
17	Tunisia	3	1	0	2	3	5	-2	3	33,3%
18	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	2	8	-6	3	33,3%
19	Saudi Arabia	12	3	1	8	13	31	-18	10	27,7%
20	Bolivia	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1	2	22,2%
21	Egypt	3	0	2	1	5	9	-4	2	22,2%
22	South Africa	3	0	1	2	5	7	-2	1	11,1%
23	Greece	3	0	1	2	0	4	-4	1	11,1%
24	Canada	3	0	1	2	0	5	-5	1	11,1%
25	Ivory Coast	2	0	0	2	2	9	-7	0	0,0%
26	New Zealand	6	0	0	6	2	17	-15	0	0,0%