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2005 FIFA Confederations Cup Konföderationen-Pokal 2005 Tournament details Host country Germany
Dates 15 June – 29 June Teams 8 (from 6 confederations) Venue(s) 5 (in 5 host cities) Final positions Champions Brazil (2nd title)
Runners-up Argentina
Third place Germany
Fourth place Mexico
Tournament statistics Matches played 16 Goals scored 56 (3.5 per match) Attendance 603,106 (37,694 per match) Top scorer(s) Adriano (5 goals)
Best player Adriano
← 20032009 →The 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup football tournament was the seventh FIFA Confederations Cup. It was held in Germany between 15 June and 29 June 2005. The tournament was won by 2002 FIFA World Cup winners Brazil, who defeated Argentina 4–1 in the final Waldstadion in Frankfurt. It was Brazil's second win at the Confederations Cup.
Contents
Participating teams
Team Confederation Qualification Participation Germany
UEFA 2006 FIFA World Cup host 2nd Brazil
CONMEBOL 2002 FIFA World Cup winners 5th Mexico
CONCACAF 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners 5th Tunisia
CAF 2004 African Cup of Nations winners 1st Greece
UEFA UEFA Euro 2004 winners 1st Argentina
CONMEBOL Copa América 2004 runners-up1 3rd Japan
AFC 2004 AFC Asian Cup winners 4th Australia
OFC 2004 OFC Nations Cup winners 3rd 1Argentina was awarded a spot in the competition because Brazil had won both the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the Copa América 2004. Since both competitions award their winners a spot in the Confederations Cup, the runner-up in the Copa América 2004 was called to play.[1]
Venues
Frankfurt Cologne Hanover Leipzig Nuremberg Commerzbank-Arena[1] RheinEnergieStadion AWD-Arena Zentralstadion Frankenstadion Capacity: 48,132 Capacity: 46,120 Capacity: 44,652 Capacity: 44,200 Capacity: 41,926 - ^1 As the Waldstadion.
All five venues were reused for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Match officials
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- North America, Central America and Caribbean
- Oceania
- South America
Carlos Amarilla
Carlos Chandía
Squads
For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup squads
Group stage
Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Germany
3 2 1 0 9 5 +4 7 Argentina
3 2 1 0 8 5 +3 7 Tunisia
3 1 0 2 3 5 –2 3 Australia
3 0 0 3 5 10 –5 0 15 June 2005
18:00 CESTArgentina 2 – 1 Tunisia
RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Attendance: 28,033
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)Riquelme 33' (pen.)
Saviola57'
(Report) Guemamdia 72' (pen.)
15 June 2005
21:00 CESTGermany 4 – 3 Australia
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 46,466
Referee: Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)Kurányi 17'
Mertesacker23'
Ballack60' (pen.)
Podolski88'
(Report) Skoko 21'
Aloisi31', 90+2'
18 June 2005
18:00 CESTTunisia 0 – 3 Germany
RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Attendance: 44,337
Referee: Peter Prendergast (Jamaica)(Report) Ballack 74' (pen.)
Schweinsteiger80'
Hanke88'
18 June 2005
20:45 CESTAustralia 2 – 4 Argentina
Frankenstadion, Nuremberg
Attendance: 25,218
Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)Aloisi 61' (pen.), 70'
(Report) Figueroa 12', 53', 89'
Riquelme31' (pen.)
21 June 2005
20:45 CESTAustralia 0 – 2 Tunisia
Zentralstadion, Leipzig
Attendance: 23,952
Referee: Carlos Chandía (Chile)(Report) Santos 26', 70'
21 June 2005
20:45 CESTArgentina 2 – 2 Germany
Frankenstadion, Nuremberg
Attendance: 42,088
Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)Riquelme 33'
Cambiasso74'
(Report) Kurányi 29'
Asamoah51'
Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Mexico
3 2 1 0 3 1 +2 7 Brazil
3 1 1 1 5 3 +2 4 Japan
3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4 Greece
3 0 1 2 0 4 –4 1 16 June 2005
18:00 CESTJapan 1 – 2 Mexico
AWD-Arena, Hanover
Attendance: 24,036
Referee: Matthew Breeze (Australia)Yanagisawa 12'
(Report) Zinha 39'
Fonseca64'
16 June 2005
20:45 CESTBrazil 3 – 0 Greece
Zentralstadion, Leipzig
Attendance: 42,507
Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)Adriano 41'
Robinho46'
Juninho81'
(Report)
19 June 2005
18:00 CESTGreece 0 – 1 Japan
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 34,314
Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)(Report) Oguro 76'
19 June 2005
20:45 CESTMexico 1 – 0 Brazil
AWD-Arena, Hanover
Attendance: 43,677
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)Borgetti 59'
(Report)
22 June 2005
20:45 CESTGreece 0 – 0 Mexico
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 31,285
Referee: Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)(Report)
22 June 2005
20:45 CESTJapan 2 – 2 Brazil
RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Attendance: 44,922
Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)Nakamura 27'
Oguro88'
(Report) Robinho 10'
Ronaldinho32'
Knockout stage
Semifinals Final 25 June - Nuremberg Germany
2 Brazil
3 29 June - Frankfurt Brazil
4 Argentina
1 Third place 26 June - Hannover 29 June - Leipzig Mexico
1 (5) Germany (a.e.t.)
4 Argentina (pens.)
1 (6) Mexico
3 Semi-finals
25 June 2005
18:00 CESTGermany 2 – 3 Brazil
Frankenstadion, Nuremberg
Attendance: 42,187
Referee: Carlos Chandía (Chile)Podolski 23'
Ballack45+3' (pen.)
(Report) Adriano 21', 76'
Ronaldinho43' (pen.)
26 June 2005
18:00 CESTMexico 1 – 1
(a.e.t.)Argentina
AWD-Arena, Hanover
Attendance: 40,718
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)Salcido 104'
(Report) Figueroa 110'
Penalties Pérez
Pardo
Borgetti
Salcido
Pineda
Osorio5 – 6 Riquelme
Rodríguez
Aimar
Galletti
Sorín
Cambiasso
Third place playoff
29 June 2005
18:00 CESTGermany 4 – 3
(a.e.t.)Mexico
Zentralstadion, Leipzig
Attendance: 43,335
Referee: Matthew Breeze (Australia)Podolski 37'
Schweinsteiger41'
Huth79'
Ballack97'
(Report) Fonseca 40'
Borgetti58', 85'
Final
Main article: 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup Final29 June 2005
20:45 CESTBrazil 4 – 1 Argentina
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 45,591
Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)Adriano 11', 63'
Kaká16'
Ronaldinho47'
(Report) Aimar 65'
Awards
Golden Ball Winner Golden Shoe Winner FIFA Fair Play Trophy Adriano
Adriano
Greece
Silver Ball Winner Silver Shoe Winner Juan Riquelme
Michael Ballack
Bronze Ball Winner Bronze Shoe Winner Ronaldinho
John Aloisi
Goal scorers
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
Robinho
Kevin Kurányi
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Masashi Oguro
José Francisco Fonseca
Francileudo Santos
- 1 goal
References
- ^ "Argentina seal sixth FIFA Confederations Cup berth", FIFA.com, 22 July 2004
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