2000 FIFA Club World Championship

Host bids

Initially, there were nine candidates to host the competition: China, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Tahiti, Turkey, the United States and Uruguay; of the nine, only Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Brazil and Uruguay confirmed their interest to FIFA. On 7 June 1999, the FIFA Emergency Committee appointed Brazil as hosts of the competition during their meeting in Cairo, Egypt.

Qualified teams

The clubs that played in the tournament were:

Venues

Squads

For a list of the squads at the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship, see 2000 FIFA Club World Championship squads.

Match officials

Eight referees were appointed from the six continental confederations, each along with an accompanying assistant referee.

Format

Matches were played in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The teams were organised in two groups of four teams, with the top team in each group going through to the final and the two second-placed teams contesting a match for third place.

Group stage

Group A

Raúl Sávio

Fábio Luciano

El Moubarki El Karkouri Bahja Al-Bishi Saïb

Morientes Geremi Moustaoudia

Rincón

Group B

Edmundo

Edmundo

Delgado Cabrera

Romário

Knockout stage

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Match for third place

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Final

Main article: 2000 FIFA Club World Championship final

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Goalscorers

1 own goal

• KSA Fahad Al-Bishi (Al-Nassr, against Raja Casablanca)

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

Additionally, FIFA named an all-star team consisting of eleven starters and seven substitutes.

Aftermath and legacy

Following the inaugural Club World Cup, FIFA pledged further editions of the tournament. The first of these was slated for Spain in 2001, with an expected 12 participants. By March of that year, group draws had even taken place. However, the second edition of the tournament was called off due to a range of factors involving partners and sponsorships, with the collapse of International Sport and Leisure, FIFA's marketing partner at the time, being the most significant. The event was then rescheduled for 2003, but it didn't come to fruition either. It wasn't until 2004 that FIFA was able to officially announce the second edition of the tournament.

From the 2005 edition onwards, the competition has been held continuously but under a new format, featuring single-elimination tournament instead of a group stage plus final, and with a shorter duration, addressing scheduling concerns for national federations and continental confederations. While the two subsequent editions, 2005 and 2006, included only the six continental champions, from the 2007 edition onwards, the number of participants increased to seven – the seventh spot was typically reserved for the national champion of the host country. However, to prevent the recurrence of two clubs from the same country, as happened in 2000, FIFA introduced a mechanism: if the continental champion hailed from the host country, the national champion of that country would forfeit its spot, which would then go to the highest-ranked team from another country in the continental competition.

Notes

References

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