2000 FIFA Club World Championship

2000 FIFA Club World Championship

FIFA Club World Championship Brazil 2000
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	5 January - 14 January
Teams	8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Corinthians (1st title)
Runner-up	Vasco da Gama
Third place	Necaxa
Fourth place	Real Madrid
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	43 (3.07 per match)
Attendance	514,000 (36,714 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Romário (3 goals) Nicolas Anelka (3 goals)
2005 →

The 2000 FIFA Club World Championship was the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship held in Brazil from 5 January to 14 January 2000.

Contents 1 Qualifying teams 2 Squads 3 Referees 4 Format 5 First stage 5.1 Group A 5.2 Group B 6 Second stage 6.1 Match for 3rd place 6.2 Final 7 Tournament round-up 7.1 Final standings 7.2 Awards 8 Scorers 9 See also 10 External links

Qualifying teams

The clubs that qualified for the tournament were:

Al Nassr	Saudi Arabia	Asian Super Cup 1998 winners
Corinthians	Brazil	Brazilian Championship 1998 winners
Manchester United	England	UEFA Champions League 1998–99 winners
Necaxa	Mexico	CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1999 winners
Raja Casablanca	Morocco	CAF Champions League 1999 winners
Real Madrid	Spain	Intercontinental Cup 1998 winners
South Melbourne	Australia	Oceania Club Championship 1999 winners
Vasco da Gama	Brazil	Copa Libertadores 1998 winners

Squads

For a list of the squads at the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship, see 2000 FIFA Club World Championship squads.

Referees

Africa Daouda N'Doye Ali Tomusangue Asia Saad Mane Serguey Ufimtsev North, Central America and Caribbean William Mattus Haseeb Mohammed Oceania Derek Rugg Lavetala Siuamoa

South America Horacio Elizondo Oscar Ruiz Miguel Giacomuzzi Fernando Cresci Europe Stefano Braschi Dick Jol Jens Larsen Frederic Arnault Vincent Texier Jacek Pociegiel

Format

Matches were played in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The teams were organised in two groups of four teams, with the top team in each group going through to the final and the two second-placed teams contesting a third-place play-off.

First stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Corinthians	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7
Real Madrid	3	2	1	0	8	5	+3	7
Al Nassr	3	1	0	2	5	8	−3	3
Raja Casablanca	3	0	0	3	5	9	−4	0

2000-01-05 18:45	Real Madrid	3 – 1	Al Nassr	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	Anelka  21' Raúl  62' Sávio  69' (pen.)	(Report)	Al Husseini  45' (pen.)

---

2000-01-05 21:15	Corinthians	2 – 0	Raja Casablanca	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Braschi (Italy)
	Luizão  49' Fábio Luciano  64'	(Report)

---

2000-01-07 18:45	Real Madrid	2 – 2	Corinthians	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Mattus (Costa Rica)
	Anelka  20'  71'	(Report)	Edílson  29'  63'

---

2000-01-07 21:15	Raja Casablanca	3 – 4	Al Nassr	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Rugg (New Zealand)
	Nejjary  13' El Moubarki  81' El Karkouri  73'	(Report)	Amin  3' Bahja  48' Al-Husseini  50' Saïb  87'

---

2000-01-10 18:45	Real Madrid	3 – 2	Raja Casablanca	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
	Hierro  48' Morientes  52' Geremi  87'	(Report)	Achami  25' Moustaoudia  58'

---

2000-01-10 21:15	Al Nassr	0 – 2	Corinthians	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)
		(Report)	Ricardinho  24' Rincón  81'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Vasco da Gama	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	9
Necaxa	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
Manchester United	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
South Melbourne	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0

2000-01-06 18:15	Manchester United	1 – 1	Necaxa	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
	Yorke  81'	(Report)	Montecinos  14'

---

2000-01-06 20:45	Vasco da Gama	2 – 0	South Melbourne	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 66,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)
	Felipe  53' Edmundo  86'	(Report)

---

2000-01-08 18:15	Manchester United	1 – 3	Vasco da Gama	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 73,000 Referee: Saad Mane (Kuwait)
	Butt  80'	(Report)	Romário  23'  25' Edmundo  42'

---

2000-01-08 20:45	South Melbourne	1 – 3	Necaxa	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Falla Ndoye (Senegal)
	Anastasiadis  45'	(Report)	Montecinos  18' (pen.) Delgado  28' Cabrera  78' (pen.)

---

2000-01-11 18:15	Manchester United	2 – 0	South Melbourne	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Stefano Braschi (Italy)
	Fortune  8'  20'	(Report)

---

2000-01-11 20:45	Necaxa	1 – 2	Vasco da Gama	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	Aguinaga  4'	(Report)	Odvan  14' Romário  68'

Second stage

Match for 3rd place

14 January 2000 17:00	Real Madrid	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Necaxa	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	Raúl  15'	(Report)	Delgado  58'

		Penalties
	Eto'o Helguera McManaman Morientes Dorado	3 – 4	Vázquez Cabrera Perez Aguinaga Delgado

Final

14 January 2000 20:00	Vasco da Gama	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Corinthians	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 73,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)
		(Report)

		Penalties
	Romário Alex Oliveira Gilberto Viola Edmundo	3 – 4	Rincón Fernando Baiano Luizão Edu Marcelinho

FIFA Club World Cup 2000 Winners
Corinthians First Title

Tournament round-up

Final standings Pos Team Nation Confederation 1 Corinthians  Brazil CONMEBOL 2 Vasco da Gama  Brazil CONMEBOL 3 Necaxa  Mexico CONCACAF 4 Real Madrid  Spain UEFA 5 Manchester United  England UEFA 6 Al-Nasr  KSA AFC 7 Raja Casablanca  Morocco CAF 8 South Melbourne  Australia OFC

Awards Golden Ball Silver Ball Bronze Ball Edílson (Corinthians) Edmundo (Vasco da Gama) Romário (Vasco da Gama) Fair play Al-Nasr

Scorers

3 goals Nicolas Anelka (Real Madrid) Romário (Vasco da Gama) 2 goals Fahad Al-Husseini (Al-Nassr) Agustin Delgado (Necaxa) Edilson (Corinthians) Edmundo (Vasco da Gama) Quinton Fortune (Manchester United) Cristian Montecinos (Necaxa) Raúl (Real Madrid) 1 goal Youssef Achami (Raja Casablanca) Alex Aguinaga (Necaxa) Fuad Amin (Al-Nassr) John Anastasiadis (South Melbourne)

Ahmed Bahja (Al-Nassr) Nicky Butt (Manchester United) Salvador Cabrera (Necaxa) Talal El Karkouri (Raja Casablanca) Bouchaib El Moubarki (Raja Casablanca) Felipe (Vasco da Gama) Geremi (Real Madrid) Fernando Hierro (Real Madrid) Fábio Luciano (Corinthians) Luizão (Corinthians) Fernando Morientes (Real Madrid) Mustapha Moustaoudia (Raja Casablanca) Omar Nejjary (Raja Casablanca) Odvan (Vasco da Gama) Freddy Rincón (Corinthians) Moussa Saïb (Al-Nassr) Sávio (Real Madrid) Dwight Yorke (Manchester United)

See also

• FIFA Club World Cup

External links

• Info about tournament on FIFA site
• Info about Corinthians season 2000 and FIFA Club World Championshiop

v • d • e FIFA Club World Cup Seasons 2000 · 2001 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 Finals 2000 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 Squads 2000 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 Qualification AFC · CAF · CONCACAF · CONMEBOL · OFC · UEFA

v • d • e International club football FIFA · Club World Cup (stats) · Intercontinental Cup (defunct) (stats) · Player of the Year · List of international & official club competition winners · Teams Asia AFC – Champions League · AFC Cup · President's Cup Africa CAF – Champions League · Confederation Cup · Super Cup North America CONCACAF – Champions League South America CONMEBOL – Copa Libertadores · Copa Sudamericana · Recopa Sudamericana Oceania OFC – Champions League Europe UEFA – Champions League · Europa League · Super Cup