2007 FIFA Club World Cup

2007 edition of the FIFA Club World Cup

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presented by Toyota
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Tournament details
Host country| Japan
Dates| 7–16 December
Teams| 7 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)| 3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions|  Milan (1st title)
Runners-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 (Urawa Red Diamonds)
3 goals
Best player(s)| Kaká (Milan)
Fair play award|  Urawa Red Diamonds

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The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2007 presented by Toyota for sponsorship reasons) was a football tournament played in Japan from 7 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.

Seven teams from the six confederations entered the tournament; the other team was the host country's representatives, usually the league champions. Defending champions Internacional did not qualify as they were eliminated in the second stage of the 2007 Copa Libertadores.

Italian side Milan became the first European team to win the Club World Cup with a 4–2 victory over Argentinian club Boca Juniors in the final. That title made them the most successful team in the world in terms of official international trophies won (18).

## Host bids

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The FIFA Executive Committee appointed Japan as hosts of the 2007 tournament on 15 September 2006 during their meeting in Zürich, Switzerland.[1]

## Qualified teams

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Sepahan

Étoile du Sahel

Urawa Red Diamonds

Pachuca

Waitakere United

Milan

Boca Juniors

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Location of teams of the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup

The qualified teams were decided during 2007 through the six 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.[2] 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,[3] which indeed happened as Urawa Red Diamonds won the 2007 AFC Champions League. Also, the fifth-place match was eliminated for this edition.

It was the first participation in the FIFA Club World Cup for all seven teams that qualified.

Team  | Confederation  | Qualification  | Participation

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Entering in the semi-finals
Milan | UEFA | Winners of 2006–07 UEFA Champions League | Debut
Boca Juniors | CONMEBOL | Winners of 2007 Copa Libertadores | Debut
Entering in the quarter-finals
Étoile du Sahel | CAF | Winners of 2007 CAF Champions League | Debut
Urawa Red Diamonds | AFC | Winners of 2007 AFC Champions League | Debut
Pachuca | CONCACAF | Winners of 2007 CONCACAF Champions' Cup | Debut
Entering in the play-off for quarter-finals
Sepahan | AFC (host)[note 1] | Runners-up of 2007 AFC Champions League[note 1] | Debut
Waitakere United | OFC | Winners of 2007 OFC Champions League | Debut

Notes

1. ^ a b Sepahan took the host Japan's slot as Urawa Red Diamonds won the 2007 AFC Champions League. As a result, the winners of the 2007 J.League Division 1, later determined to be Kashima Antlers on 1 December 2007, missed out on participating.

## Venues

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Tokyo, Yokohama and Toyota were the three cities to serve as venues for the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup.

Yokohama | Tokyo | Toyota

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International Stadium Yokohama | National Stadium | Toyota Stadium
35°30′36.16″N 139°36′22.49″E﻿ / ﻿35.5100444°N 139.6062472°E﻿ / 35.5100444; 139.6062472﻿ (International Stadium Yokohama) | 35°40′41.00″N 139°42′53.00″E﻿ / ﻿35.6780556°N 139.7147222°E﻿ / 35.6780556; 139.7147222﻿ (National Olympic Stadium) | 35°05′04.02″N 137°10′14.02″E﻿ / ﻿35.0844500°N 137.1705611°E﻿ / 35.0844500; 137.1705611﻿ (Toyota Stadium)
Capacity: 72,327 | Capacity: 57,363 | Capacity: 45,000
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Yokohama

Tokyo

Toyota

2007 FIFA Club World Cup (Japan)

## Squads

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

## Match officials

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Confederation  | Referee  | Assistant referees

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AFC | Mark Shield (Australia)
Hiroyoshi Takayama (Japan)  | Ben Wilson (Australia)
Nathan Gibson (Australia)
CAF | Coffi Codjia (Benin)  | Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon)
Celestin Ntagungira (Rwanda)
CONCACAF | Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico)  | Jose Luis Camargo (Mexico)
Pedro Rebollar (Mexico)
CONMEBOL | Jorge Larrionda (Uruguayan)  | Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguayan)
Miguel Nievas (Ecuador)
OFC | Peter O'Leary (New Zealand)  | Brent Best (New Zealand)
Matthew Taro (Solomon Islands)
UEFA | Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)  | Bill Hansen (Denmark)
Henryk Sonderby (Turkey)

## Matches

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| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Play-off for quarter-finals| | | Quarter-finals| | | Semi-finals| | | Final
| | 9 December – Tokyo| |
|  Étoile du Sahel| 1| 12 December – Tokyo
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|  Pachuca| 0| | |  Étoile du Sahel| 0
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| 7 December – Tokyo| | | |  Boca Juniors| 1| | | 16 December – Yokohama
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|  Sepahan| 3| 10 December – Toyota| |  Boca Juniors| 2
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|  Waitakere United| 1| | |  Sepahan| 1| 13 December – Yokohama| | |  Milan| 4
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| | | |  Urawa Red Diamonds| 3| | |  Urawa Red Diamonds| 0|
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| | | |  Milan| 1| | | Match for third place
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| | 16 December – Yokohama
| |  Étoile du Sahel| 2 (2)
| |  Urawa Red Diamonds (p)| 2 (4)
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All times local (UTC+9)

### Play-off for quarter-finals

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7 December 2007

19:45

Sepahan | 3–1|  Waitakere United

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Emad 3', 4'
Abu Al-Hail 47' | Report | Aghili 74' (o.g.)

National Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 24,788

Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)

### Quarter-finals

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9 December 2007

14:45

Étoile du Sahel | 1–0|  Pachuca

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Narry 85' | Report |

National Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 34,934

Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)

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10 December 2007

19:30

Sepahan | 1–3|  Urawa Red Diamonds

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Karimi 80' | Report | Nagai 32'
Washington 54'
Aghili 70' (o.g.)

Toyota Stadium, Toyota

Attendance: 33,263

Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)

### Semi-finals

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12 December 2007

19:30

Étoile du Sahel | 0–1|  Boca Juniors

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| Report | Cardozo 37'

National Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 37,255

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

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13 December 2007

19:30

Urawa Red Diamonds | 0–1|  Milan

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| Report | Seedorf 68'

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Attendance: 67,005

Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

### Match for third place

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16 December 2007

16:00

Étoile du Sahel | 2–2|  Urawa Red Diamonds

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Ben Frej 5' (pen.)
Chermiti 75' | Report | Washington 35', 70'
Penalties
Nafkha
Ghezal
Ben Nasser
Traoui | 2–4 |  Washington
Abe
Nagai
Hosogai

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Attendance: 53,363

Referee: Peter O'Leary (New Zealand)

### Final

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Main article: 2007 FIFA Club World Cup Final

16 December 2007

19:30

Boca Juniors | 2–4|  Milan

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Palacio 22'
Ledesma 85' | Report | Inzaghi 21', 71'
Nesta 50'
Kaká 61'

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Attendance: 68,263

Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)

## Goalscorers

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Rank  | Player  | Team  | Goals

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

2 own goals

* Hadi Aghili (Sepahan, against Waitakere United and Urawa Red Diamonds)

## Awards

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See also: FIFA Club World Cup awards

Adidas Golden Ball
Toyota Award  | Adidas Silver Ball  | Adidas Bronze Ball

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Kaká
(Milan)  |  Clarence Seedorf
(Milan)  |  Rodrigo Palacio
(Boca Juniors)
FIFA Fair Play Award
Urawa Red Diamonds

## References

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1. ^ "Code of Ethics approved – Lord Sebastian Coe to be chairman of Ethics Committee". FIFA. 15 September 2006. Archived from the original on 17 October 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
2. ^ "Green light for further special projects in Oceania, India and the Caribbean". Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
3. ^ "Organising Committee strengthens FIFA Club World Cup format". Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2007.

## External links

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