FIFA Confederations Cup 2017

FIFA Confederations Cup 2017
FIFA Confederations Cup 2017
Number of nations	8th
winner	Germany (1st title)
venue	Russia
Opening game	17th June 2017
Endgame	2nd July 2017
Games	16
Gates	43  (⌀: 2.69 per game)
spectator	628,304  (⌀: 39,269 per game)
Top scorer	Timo Werner
Best player	Julian Draxler
Best goalkeeper	Claudio Bravo
yellow cards	59  (⌀: 3.69 per game)
Yellow-red cards	3  (⌀: 0.19 per game)
Red cards	1  (⌀: 0.06 per game)

The FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 (officially English FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 ; Russian Кубок конфедераций 2017 Kubok konfederazi 2017 ) was the tenth and final edition of this intercontinental football competition for national teams. The tournament took place in Russia between June 17 and July 2, 2017 . As the world football body FIFA in principle has been awarding the 2005 Confederations Cup as a sporting and organizational rehearsal of the country the following year, the football World Cup aligns, Russia was the awarding of the 2018 FIFA World Cup to the Russian Football Federation as organizer of the Confederations Cup fest. Russia's host role was announced on December 2, 2010.

By beating Chile in the final , Germany was able to win the tournament for the first time.

Venues

Stadiums in four cities served as the venue for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. These will also be used for the 2018 World Cup .

St. Petersburg	Moscow	Moscow Kazan St. Petersburg Sochi	Kazan	Sochi
Krestowski Stadium	Otkrytije Arena		Kazan Arena	Sochi Olympic Stadium
Capacity: 69,500 (new build)	Capacity: 42,000		Capacity: 45,015 (new build)	Capacity: 47,659 (new build)

Attendees

The following national teams were qualified for the competition (place in the FIFA world rankings in November 2016):

1.  Russia as hosts (55th)
2.  Germany as world champion 2014 (3rd)
3.  Australia as Asian champions 2015 (48th)
4.  Chile as the winner of the Copa América 2015 (4th)
5.  Mexico as the winner of the CONCACAF Cup 2015 ¹ (18th)
6.  New Zealand as Oceania Champion 2016 (110.)
7.  Portugal as European Champion 2016 (8th)
8.  Cameroon as Africa Champion 2017 (65th)

¹After extra time 3-2 winner in the playoff against the 2013 Gold Cup winner ( USA ) 

draw

The draw took place in Kazan on November 26, 2016 . The schedule was announced on July 24, 2015. For the draw, hosts Russia, world champions Germany, South American champions Chile and European champions Portugal, who occupied the highest places in the FIFA world rankings in November 2016, were placed in pot 1. Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and the African champions of 2017 (Cameroon), who had not yet been determined at the time, were placed in pot 2. In addition, Russia was selected as the group head of Group A. There were changes to the previous lottery procedure: On the one hand, the reigning world champion was no longer placed as the second group head. On the other hand, with the participation of three European teams, the rule no longer applied that two teams from the same continental association were not allowed to meet in the group stage, now there could be a maximum of two.

Groups and squads

Group A	Group B
Russia	Cameroon
New Zealand	Chile
Portugal	Australia
Mexico	Germany

Preliminary round

Time information in local time UTC + 3 , followed by Central European Summer Time (CEST) (UTC + 2) in brackets .

Group A

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Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	1	0	007: 200	+5	07th
2.	Mexico	3	2	1	0	006: 400	+2	07th
3.	Russia	3	1	0	2	003: 300	± 0	03
4th	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	001: 800	−7	00

Sat, June 17, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Russia	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (1: 0)
Sun., June 18, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Portugal	-	Mexico	2: 2 (1: 1)
Wed, June 21, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Russia	-	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 1)
Wed, June 21, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Mexico	-	New Zealand	2: 1 (0: 1)
Sat., June 24, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Mexico	-	Russia	2: 1 (1: 1)
Sat, June 24, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
New Zealand	-	Portugal	0: 4 (0: 2)

Group B

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Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	007: 400	+3	07th
2.	Chile	3	1	2	0	004: 200	+2	05
3.	Australia	3	0	2	1	004: 500	−1	02
4th	Cameroon	3	0	1	2	002: 600	−4	01

Sun., June 18, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Cameroon	-	Chile	0: 2 (0: 0)
Mon., June 19, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Australia	-	Germany	2: 3 (1: 2)
Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Cameroon	-	Australia	1: 1 (1: 0)
Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Germany	-	Chile	1: 1 (1: 1)
Sun., June 25, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Germany	-	Cameroon	3: 1 (0: 0)
Sun., June 25, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Chile	-	Australia	1: 1 (0: 1)

Final round

→ Main article : 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup / Final Round

Semifinals

Wed., June 28, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Portugal	-	Chile	0: 0 n.V., 0: 3 i. E.
Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Germany	-	Mexico	4: 1 (2: 0)

3rd place match

Sun., July 2, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Portugal	-	Mexico	2: 1 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 0)

final

Sun., July 2, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Chile	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 1)

List of goalscorers

Timo Werner,
winner of the Golden Shoe

Lars Stindl,
winner of the Silver Shoe

Leon Goretzka,
winner of the Silver Shoe

Listed below are the final scorers. The sorting takes place according to the number of goals scored, if the number of hits is the same, the templates and then the game minutes are decisive.

rank	player	Gates	templates	Game minutes
1	Timo Werner "Golden Shoe"	3	2	292
2	Lars Stindl "Silver Shoe"	3	0	336
2	Leon Goretzka "Silver Shoe"	3	0	337
4th	Cristiano Ronaldo	2	1	367
5	Marco Fabián	1	1	133
6th	Ricardo Quaresma	1	1	252
7th	Alexander Samedov	1	1	270
8th	André Silva	1	1	372
9	Eduardo Vargas	1	1	421
10	Alexis Sánchez	1	1	422
11	Julian Draxler	1	1	431
12	Arturo Vidal	1	1	480
13	Amin Younes	1	0	19th
14th	Kerem Demirbay	1	0	77
15th	Martin Rodriguez	1	0	87
16	James Troisi	1	0	134
17th	Tom Rogic	1	0	150
18th	Oribe Peralta	1	0	162
19th	Hirving Lozano	1	0	194
20th	Nani	1	0	195
21st	Bernardo Silva	1	0	218
	Tomi Juric	1	0	218
23	Adrien Silva	1	0	255
24	Fyodor Smolov	1	0	258
25th	André Zambo Anguissa	1	0	269
26th	Mark Milligan	1	0	270
	Chris Wood	1	0	270
	Vincent Aboubakar	1	0	270
29	Raúl Jiménez	1	0	286
30th	Cédric Soares	1	0	300
31	Chicharito	1	0	355
32	Pepe	1	0	390
33	Néstor Araujo	1	0	413
34	Héctor Moreno	1	0	425

Michael Boxall ( New Zealand ) also scored an own goal in the opening game against Russia and Neto ( Portugal ) in the game for third place against Mexico .

Awards

Golden ball

Julian Draxler was awarded the Golden Ball by FIFA as the best player in the Confederations Cup 2017 . The Silver Ball went to Chilean Alexis Sánchez , the Bronze Ball to Leon Goretzka .

Golden Shoe

Timo Werner received the golden shoe for the top scorer of the tournament for his three goals and two assists. His teammates Lars Stindl and Leon Goretzka shared the Silver Shoe ; they also scored three goals, but, unlike Werner, could not post any assists.

Golden glove

Chilean goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was named the tournament's best goalkeeper by FIFA.

Fair play award

Germany received the FIFA fair play award. The national team only received eight yellow cards during the tournament and, according to FIFA, also received positive attention off the field.

Goal of the tournament

In an internet vote on the FIFA website, viewers were asked to choose the most beautiful goal from five suggestions. Thousands of fans took part. With 55 percent of the vote, the goal of the Mexican Marco Fabián was chosen as the goal of the tournament to mean 1: 3 in the semifinals against Germany.

Banned players and coaches

•  Pepe for the semi-finals against Chile after two yellow cards in the group stage
•  Andrés Guardado for the semi-finals against Germany after two yellow cards in the group stage
•  Yuri Schirkow is expected to play in the opening game of the World Cup after a yellow-red card in the last group game against Mexico
•  Ernest Mabouka is expected to play at least one World Cup qualifier after red card in the last group game against Germany
•  Juan Carlos Osorio (Mexico coach) for six competitive games, u. a. at the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2017 , due to defamatory words and aggressive behavior towards the match officials in the game for third place

referee

On April 27, 2017, FIFA announced a list of nine referees from five continental associations to be used in the 2017 Confederations Cup. The nine referees were each supported by two assistants . The field was completed by eight video referees from five continental associations and the supporting referee Abdelkader Zitouni from Tahiti ( Oceania Football Confederation ). For the first time since the 1999 event, arbitrators from German-speaking countries had not been nominated. The referees Gassama, Geiger, Pitana, Roldán and Mažić were already in action at the 2014 World Cup , this year's video referees Ermatov and Ricci were also nominated as main referee at the 2014 World Cup, and Ermatov was also nominated as main referee at the 2013 Confederations Cup .

Association	referee	Assistants	Games	Games ( 4th opening )				Video referee
AFC	Fahad Al-Mirdasi	Abdulah Alshalwai Mohammed Al-abakry	2	1	10	3	0	Ravshan Ermatov
	Alireza Faghani	Mohammadreza Mansouri Reza Sokhandan	2	1	11	0	0
CAF	Bakary Gassama	Jean-Claude Birumushahu Marwa Range	1	0	4th	0	0	Malang Diedhiou
CONCACAF	Mark Geiger	Joe Fletcher Charles Morgante	2	2	6th	0	0	Jair Marrufo
CONMEBOL	Néstor Pitana	Juan Pablo Belatti Hernán Maidana	2	2	5	0	0	Enrique Cáceres Sandro Ricci
	Wilmar Roldán	Cristian de la Cruz Alexander Guzman	2	1	1	0	1
UEFA	Milorad Mažić	Dalibor Đurđević Milovan Ristić	2	2	10	0	0	Artur Dias Ovidiu Hațegan Clément Turpin
	Gianluca Rocchi	Elenito Di Liberatore Mauro Tonolini	2	1	11	0	0
	Damir Skomina	Jure Praprotnik Robert Vukan	1	3	1	0	0

particularities

• For the first time, three players on a team took the first three places on the top scorer list.
• With Germany, the youngest team to date won the tournament, which was on average 24 years and 4 months old. With an average of 16.6 internationals, the players used in the final were also the most inexperienced before Denmark in 1995 (18.2).
• Three players made their 100th international match during the tournament: Igor Akinfejew (Russia's first goalkeeper) against Portugal, João Moutinho (Portugal) against New Zealand and Tim Cahill (Australia's first outfield player) against Chile.
• Alexis Sánchez (Chile) became the sole Chilean top scorer with his goal in the group game against Germany and set Claudio Bravo's national record in the game with his 112th international match , which both then increased to 115 in the next games. The goal was also the 400th goal in the history of the Confederation Cup.
• Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 75th international goal in the game against New Zealand, drawing level with the Hungarian Sándor Kocsis . Both are only surpassed in Europe by Ferenc Puskás (Hungary, 84 goals).
• The group game of the German team against Cameroon was the 150th game and the 100th victory under coach Joachim Löw .
• New Zealand's England coach Anthony Hudson is now the youngest Confed Cup coach at 36 years and 96 days.
• With its participation Mexico set the record of Brazil (both seven times).
• With an average age of 29 years and one month, the Chilean team is now the oldest Confed Cup team to date.
• Portugal are the first team to fail in a penalty shoot-out at the Confederations Cup.
• Chile are the first team to play three consecutive draws at the Confederations Cup.

Sources: resources.fifa.com, Russia 2017 facts and figures

Marketing, organization and environment

Television broadcast

Germany

In Germany, the games were broadcast by the public television channels Das Erste and ZDF . Tom Bartels and Gerd Gottlob commented for ARD, Claudia Neumann and Béla Réthy for ZDF . The first broadcast the opening game, the ZDF broadcast the final. The broadcasts of the parallel games of the preliminary round on the third match day, which were played simultaneously for competitive reasons , were broadcast in a conference call in Group A, with the main focus on the match between Russia and Mexico. From the parallel games of group B, the game of the German team was shown. Three games of the preliminary round were broadcast by Sport1 , including the parallel game on the last match day, which was not shown live by ZDF. The broadcast of the final game on ZDF achieved a new rating record for the FIFA Confederations Cup on German television with 14.69 million viewers (market share: 42.7%) .

Austria

In Austria the games were broadcast by the public television channels ORF eins and ORFSport + .

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the television broadcaster SRF two broadcast all the games. Rainer Maria Salzgeber and Matthias Hüppi were engaged as moderators, Sascha Ruefer and Dani Kern as commentators .

Cue ball

The official match ball was made by Adidas , as it was at the world championships and was named Krasava at this tournament , which means “beautiful” in Russian. In addition to the white cue ball, there was an orange winter ball for the first time, which should also be recognized when it is snowing. The technology and structure were based on the 2014 World Cup model , but only six congruent panels were now used.

Shirt supplier

Adidas (Germany, Russia, Mexico), Nike (Australia, Chile, Portugal, New Zealand) and Puma (Cameroon) were the three suppliers of the eight participants.

logo

The design of the logo is based on the trophy of the Confederations Cup. A fire bird , a magical creature from Slavic mythology, is depicted on the cup . In addition to the bird, there are several windows that are supposed to create a connection with the logo of the 2018 World Cup . They show the transformation of the firebird into a fireball, which can be seen in the World Cup logo. Eight red dots are visible in the base of the cup; they represent the eight participating teams. The dominant Russian national color is red .

Opening and closing ceremonies

Before the first game of the tournament, hundreds of singers and dancers performed in the St. Petersburg stadium in just under half an hour. At that time, however, the stadium was still largely empty. In addition to an overview of Russian history and culture, the four venues were also presented. The theme of the celebration was based on the ballet The Firebird . Before the game started, Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino each gave a speech.

A closing ceremony lasting around twenty minutes took place in the run-up to the final. The presentation took up the culture, history and art of the St. Petersburg venue . Motifs from the Confederations Cup , its previous winners and the participating teams were also incorporated.

Impact on the FIFA World Ranking

The tournament brought about some changes in the FIFA world rankings . Winner Germany returned to first place after two years (previously third place). Final opponent Chile , who only won one regular game in the tournament, lost three places and fell back to 7th place. This is due to the fact that three games, including the semi-final against Portugal, which was decided on penalties, ended in a draw. In addition, the Chileans lost in preparation in Romania and only achieved a 1-1 draw in a friendly against Russia. Third place Portugal improved by four (now 4th), fourth Mexico by one place (now 16th).

Of the teams eliminated in the group stage, Australia gained three places (now 45th) and Russia one place (now 62nd), while Cameroon lost four (now 36th) and New Zealand even 27 places and fell to 122nd place.

Web links

Commons : FIFA Confederations Cup 2017  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website for the Confederations Cup 2017 (de.fifa.com)
• Schedule of the Confed Cup 2017 (PDF; 0.6 MB; 1 page) (confed-cup.de)
• FIFA Confederations Cup - Statistical Overview (PDF; 4.4 MB)

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