2009 FIFA Confederations Cup

Qualified teams

Draw

The draw for the competition was held on 22 November 2008 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Each team was represented in the draw by its competitor in the Miss World 2008 competition, except for Iraq, which was represented by Miss World 2007, Zhang Zilin, from China. The teams were divided into two pots:

• Pot A: South Africa (automatically placed as Team A1), Brazil, Italy, Spain
• Pot B: Egypt, Iraq, New Zealand, United States

Teams from the same confederation were not drawn into the same group, therefore Egypt was drawn into Group B. Also as result, Italy and Spain were drawn into different groups.

Match ball

The official match ball for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup was the Adidas Kopanya. The name means "bring (or join) together" in Southern Sesotho, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The panel configuration of the ball is the same as that of the Teamgeist and Europass balls that came before it. The ball is white, accentuated with bold black lines and detailed with typical Ndebele designs in red, yellow, green and blue.

Venues

Four cities served as the venues for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. All four venues were also used for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Originally, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth was also chosen as a venue. On 8 July 2008, however, Port Elizabeth withdrew as a host city because its stadium was deemed unlikely to meet the 30 March 2009 deadline for completion. The Nelson Mandela Bay stadium was subsequently completed before the Confederations Cup and was opened on 7 June 2009. It acted as a venue for the 2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa on 16 June. All of these stadia hosted matches during the Lions tour, but a minimum of nine days was allowed for pitch recovery between a rugby match and a Confederations Cup match.

Match officials

The referees were announced on 5 May. Two referee teams (led by Carlos Batres and Carlos Amarilla respectively) withdrew due to injuries. Replacements from the same confederation, led by Benito Archundia and Pablo Pozo, were selected.

Squads

Main article: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup squads

Group stage

;Tie-breaking criteria The ranking of each team in each group was determined as follows:

1. Greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.

Had two or more teams been equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings would have been determined as follows:

1. Greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
4. Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

Group A

Main article: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A

Group B

Main article: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B

Knockout stage

Main article: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage

|24 June – Bloemfontein||0||2 |25 June – Johannesburg||1||0 |28 June – Johannesburg||2||3 |28 June – Rustenburg| (aet)|3||2

Semi-finals

Dempsey

Match for third place

Alonso

Final

Main article: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup final

Donovan Lúcio

Awards

Source: FIFA

Source: FIFA

Statistics

Main article: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup statistics

Goalscorers

Luís Fabiano received the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals. In total, 44 goals were scored by 27 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

;5 goals

• BRA Luís Fabiano

;3 goals

• ESP Fernando Torres
• ESP David Villa
• USA Clint Dempsey

;2 goals

• BRA Kaká
• EGY Mohamed Zidan
• RSA Katlego Mphela
• RSA Bernard Parker
• ITA Giuseppe Rossi
• ESP Dani Güiza
• USA Landon Donovan

;1 goal

• BRA Dani Alves
• BRA Felipe Melo
• BRA Juan
• BRA Lúcio
• BRA Maicon
• BRA Robinho
• EGY Homos
• EGY Mohamed Shawky
• ITA Daniele De Rossi
• ESP Xabi Alonso
• ESP Cesc Fàbregas
• ESP Fernando Llorente
• USA Jozy Altidore
• USA Michael Bradley
• USA Charlie Davies

;Own goal

• ITA Andrea Dossena (against Brazil)

Tournament ranking

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

group stage

References

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