FIFA Club World Cup 2015

FIFA Club World Cup 2015
FIFA Club World Cup 2015
Number of clubs	7th
winner	FC Barcelona (3rd title)
venue	Japan
Opening game	December 10, 2015
Endgame	20th December 2015
Games	8th
Gates	21  (⌀: 2.63 per game)
spectator	272,312  (⌀: 34,039 per game)
Top scorer	Luis Suárez (5 goals)
Best player	Luis Suarez
yellow cards	30  (⌀: 3.75 per game)
Yellow-red cards	0
Red cards	0

The FIFA Club World Cup 2015 ( Engl. : FIFA Club World Cup in 2015 ) was the twelfth edition of this global soccer competition for club teams and took place from 10 December to 20 December 2015 for the seventh time in Japan instead. In addition to Japan, India originally applied to host the 2015 and 2016 tournaments. On April 23, 2015, FIFA Japan awarded the contract.

mode

There were no changes compared to the competition mode that has been in effect since 2007. The tournament was held with seven participants. In addition to the six winners of the continental championship competitions at club level from Asia (AFC), Africa (CAF), the Caribbean, North and Central America (CONCACAF), South America (CONMEBOL), Europe (UEFA) and Oceania (OFC), the national champions of the Host country, which first had to play an elimination match against the winners of the OFC Champions League. Should a club from Japan win the AFC Champions League, the best-placed non-Japanese club in the AFC Champions League would qualify instead of the champions of the Japanese league. The winner of the qualifying match played two participants in the semi-finals with the representatives of Africa, Asia and CONCACAF. For this, the participants from Europe and South America were already set and therefore only played two games each. The game was played in a knockout system . Eight games took place over eleven days.

Venues

Osaka	Osaka Yokohama Venues in Japan	Yokohama
Nagai Stadium		Nissan Stadium
Capacity: 47,816		Capacity: 72,327

Attendees

Participants were the winners of the following competitions:

club	qualification	Continental Association
Guangzhou Evergrande	AFC Champions League 2015	AFC
FC Barcelona	UEFA Champions League 2014/15	UEFA
Club America	CONCACAF Champions League 2014/15	CONCACAF
Tout Puissant Mazembe	CAF Champions League 2015	CAF
River Plate	Copa Libertadores 2015	CONMEBOL
Auckland City FC	OFC Champions League 2014/15	OFC
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	J1 League 2015	AFC (champions of Japan)

The tournament at a glance

game	date	Local time (CET)	Stadion	Team 1	Result	Team 2
Elimination game	10th of December	7:45 pm (11:45 am)	Nissan Stadium	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2: 0 (1: 0)	Auckland City FC
Quarter finals 1	13th December	4:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m.)	Nagai Stadium	Club America	1: 2 (0: 0)	Guangzhou Evergrande
Quarter finals 2	13th December	7:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m.)	Nagai Stadium	Tout Puissant Mazembe	0: 3 (0: 1)	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Play for 5th place	December 16	4:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m.)	Nagai Stadium	Club America	2: 1 (2: 1)	Tout Puissant Mazembe
Semi-final 1	December 16	7:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m.)	Nagai Stadium	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	0: 1 (0: 0)	River Plate
Semi-final 2	December 17th	7:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m.)	Nissan Stadium	FC Barcelona	3: 0 (1: 0)	Guangzhou Evergrande
3rd place match	20th of December	4:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m.)	Nissan Stadium	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2: 1 (0: 1)	Guangzhou Evergrande

final

River Plate		FC Barcelona
	December 20, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. CET ) in Yokohama ( Nissan Stadium ) Result: 0: 3 (0: 1) Spectators: 66,853 Referee: Alireza Faghani ( Iran )   Match report
	Marcelo Barovero - Gabriel Mercado , Jonathan Maidana , Éder Álvarez Balanta , Leonel Vangioni - Matías Kranevitter - Carlos Sánchez , Leonardo Ponzio (46th Luis González ) - Tabaré Viúdez (56th Sebastián Driussi ) - Rodrigo Mora (46th Gonzalo Martínez ), Lucas Alario coach: Marcelo Gallardo	Claudio Bravo - Dani Alves , Gerard Pique , Javier Mascherano (81. Thomas Vermaelen ), Jordi Alba - Ivan Rakitić (67 Sergi Roberto ), Sergio Busquets , Andres Iniesta - Lionel Messi , Luis Suarez , Neymar (89 ' Jérémy Mathieu ) coach : Luis Enrique
		0: 1 Lionel Messi (36.) 0: 2 Luis Suárez (49.) 0: 3 Luis Suárez (68.)
	Matías Kranevitter (10th), Leonardo Ponzio (23rd)	Jordi Alba (16.), Ivan Rakitić (43.), Neymar (61.), Sergi Roberto (72.)

FC Barcelona squad

The following players were in the 23-man squad of FC Barcelona:

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FC Barcelona

Goal : Claudio Bravo (2 games / 0 goals), Jordi Masip (-), Marc-André ter Stegen (-) Defense : Adriano (1/0), Jordi Alba (2/0), Dani Alves (2/0), Marc Bartra (-), Douglas (-), Javier Mascherano (2/0), Jérémy Mathieu (1/0 ), Gerard Piqué (2/0), Thomas Vermaelen (1/0) Midfield : Sergio Busquets (2/0), Gerard Gumbau (-), Andrés Iniesta (2/0), Ivan Rakitić (2/0), Sergi Roberto (2/0), Sergi Samper (1/0) Forward : Lionel Messi (1/1), Munir (1/0), Neymar (1/0), Sandro (1/0), Luis Suárez (2/5) Coach : Luis Enrique

statistics

Club ranking rank club 1 FC Barcelona 2 River Plate 3 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 4th Guangzhou Evergrande 5 Club America 6th Tout Puissant Mazembe 7th Auckland City FC

List of goalscorers rank player club Gates 1  Luis Suarez FC Barcelona 5 2  Douglas Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2  Paulinho Guangzhou Evergrande 2  Tsukasa Shiotani Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 5  Lucas Alario River Plate 1  Dario Benedetto Club America 1  Takuma Asano Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1  Kazuhiko Chiba Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1  Rainford Kalaba Tout Puissant Mazembe 1  Zheng Long Guangzhou Evergrande 1  Lionel Messi FC Barcelona 1  Yūsuke Minagawa Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1  Oribe Peralta Club America 1  Martín Eduardo Zúñiga Club America 1

Honors

Adidas Golden Ball

The golden ball for the best player of the tournament went to Luis Suárez from the title holder FC Barcelona. The Silver Ball was awarded to his teammate Lionel Messi . The bronze ball went to the captain of the Catalan club, Andrés Iniesta .

FIFA Fair Play Trophy

The Fair Play award for sporty correct stepping on and off the pitch was the FC Barcelona .

referee

FIFA nominated a referee team from each continental association. Only the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) provided a second team, which was kept as a reserve.

Association	referee	vintage	Assistant 1	vintage	Assistant 2	vintage
AFC	Alireza Faghani	1978	Reza Sokhandan	1974	Mohammadreza Mansouri	1978
CAF	Sidi Alioum	1982	Evarist Menkouande	1974	Elvis Guy Noupue Nguegoue	1983
CONCACAF	Joel Aguilar	1975	Juan Francisco Zumba	1982	Marvin Cesar Torrentera	1971
CONMEBOL	Wilmar Roldán	1980	Alexander Guzman	1985	Cristian Jairo de la Cruz	1978
OFC	Matthew Conger	1978	Simon Lount	1981	Tevita Makasini	1976
UEFA	Jonas Eriksson	1974	Mathias Klasenius	1975	Daniel Wärnmark	1974
AFC (reserve)	Ryūji Satō	1977	Akane Yagi	1974

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Japan receives continental champions in 2015 and 2016. In: fifa.com. FIFA , April 23, 2015, accessed April 23, 2015 . 
2. ↑ High interest in hosting FIFA competitions. In: fifa.com. FIFA , May 9, 2014, accessed July 25, 2014 . 
3. ↑ All information about the FIFA Club World Cup 2015
4. ^ FC Barcelona. Player. (No longer available online.) In: fifa.com. FIFA, archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; accessed on December 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ List of goalscorers. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed December 17, 2015 . 

Web links

• FIFA website for the 2015 tournament