FIFA Club World Cup

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This article is about the current tournament involving the champion clubs of all continents. For the trophy called the World Club Championship from 1960-2004, see Intercontinental Cup.

The FIFA Club World Cup (formerly the FIFA Club World Championship) is a football competition contested between the leading clubs from all 6 continental confederations. The new name will be used for the first time in the 2006 edition.

The first competition took place in Brazil in January 2000. It was intended by FIFA to be a replacement for the Intercontinental Cup (also known as the Toyota Cup), which was contested annually in Tokyo, Japan by the champions of Europe and South America.

The new tournament was not universally popular, but nevertheless a second edition was pencilled in for Spain in 2001, to feature 12 teams. This was cancelled owing to a combination of factors, most importantly the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL. It was then intended to hold the event in 2003, but this also failed to happen. FIFA eventually agreed terms with the Toyota Cup to merge the two competitions, with the first installment of the relaunched Club World Championship held in Japan between December 11 and December 18 2005 with Brazilian Copa Libertadores da América champions São Paulo winning the competition in a narrow 1-0 victory over UEFA Champions Liverpool.

1 Champions
2 Championships by Team
3 Championships by Country
4 Championships by Confederation
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Champions

For finals including both Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Championship, see Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Championship statistics.

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue
2006 Details				International Stadium, Yokohama Image:Flag of Japan.svg
2005 Details	São Paulo FC (BRA)	1 - 0	Liverpool FC (ENG)	International Stadium, Yokohama Image:Flag of Japan.svg
2004 2003 2002	Not Held
2001 Details	CANCELLED</br>Cancelled due to the bankruptcy of ISL			Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Image:Flag of Spain.svg
2000 Details	Corinthians (BRA)	0 - 0 aet (4-3 in penalty shootout)	Vasco da Gama (BRA)	Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Image:Flag of Brazil.svg