FIFA Club World Championship

Toyota Cup Japan 2005

– Final Match + related & curious details (page 2)

– IFFHS International Clubs' Rank (page 3)


	2005 Champion: São Paulo Football Club	2005 Runner-up: Liverpool Football Club

This is FIFA's current official Club World Championship, which is replacing, from 2005 onwards, the World tournament known as Toyota Cup. The official name of the tournament is FIFA Club World Championship TOYOTA Cup Japan 2005, as Toyota Motors' sponsorship has been maintained.

The tournament, now comprising six Champion teams (see below), one from each of FIFA's affiliated Confederations, was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 11 to 18 December 2005, offering a USD 15 million prize money to the Champion, in addition, of course, to a Trophy which was created especially for this tournament.

Cup Semi-Finalists:

	Al Ittihad Saudi Arabia Asian Champions' League (AFC) 2005 Champion	Al Ahly Egypt CAF Champions' League (Africa) 2005 Champion

	Deportivo Saprissa Costa Rica CONCACAF Champions' Cup (Central⁄North America) 2005 Champion	Sydney Australia OFC Champions' Cup (Oceania) 2005 Champion

	São Paulo Brazil Copa Libertadores (CONMEBOL, South America) 2005 Campion	Liverpool England UEFA Champions' League (Europe) 2004-5 Champion

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The tournament format used in 2005, which FIFA considers the ideal, is sketched below. Please note that, both São Paulo and Liverpool, as UEFA and CONMEBOL Champions, were automatically qualified for the Semi-Final Matches, each of these two clubs, thus, playing a winning club that emerged from the First Round Matches.

If this should mean anything in the context of the coming World Cup, the club from Costa Rica, Saprissa, managed third in the tournament! Out of the native countries of the clubs involved, it is also interesting to note that only Egypt will not be contesting the coming World Cup.

Please see the Championship format and match results below:

— First Round Matches: Al-Ittihad 1 X 0 Al-Ahly � Saprissa 1 X 0 Sydney

— Fifth-Place Match: Sydney 2 X 1 Al-Ahly

— Semi-Final Matches: São Paulo 3 X 2 Al-Ittihad � Liverpool 2 X 1 Saprissa

— Third-Place Match: Saprissa 3 X 2 Al-Ittihad

Final Match:

São Paulo 1 x 0 Liverpool

(all about the match: next page)

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