2018 FIFA Club World Cup

2018 FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018
Tournament details
Host country	United Arab Emirates
Dates	12–22 December 2018
Teams	7 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (4th title)
Runner-up	Al-Ain
Third place	River Plate
Fourth place	Kashima Antlers
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	33 (4.13 per match)
Attendance	152,675 (19,084 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gareth Bale Rafael Santos Borré (3 goals each)
Best player	Gareth Bale
Fair play award	Real Madrid
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The 2018 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018 presented by Alibaba Cloud for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between the champion clubs from each of the six continental confederations, as well as the national league champion from the host country. The tournament was hosted by the United Arab Emirates from 12 to 22 December 2018.

Real Madrid were the defending champions, having won the last two editions, and have qualified for this edition as well.

Host bids

The application process for the 2017–2018 as well as the 2015–2016 editions, i.e. two hosts, each hosting two years, began in February 2014. Member associations interested in hosting must submit a declaration of interest by 30 March 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 25 August 2014. The FIFA Executive Committee was to select the hosts at their meeting in Morocco in December 2014, but the final decision was delayed until the FIFA's executive committee meetings on 19–20 March 2015.

The following countries expressed an interest in bidding to host the tournament:

• Brazil
• India
• Japan
• United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates was officially announced as hosts of the 2017 and 2018 tournaments on 21 March 2015.

Qualified teams

Team	Confederation	Qualification	Qualified date	Participation
Enter in the semi-finals
River Plate	CONMEBOL	Winners of the 2018 Copa Libertadores	9 December 2018	2nd (Previous: 2015)
Real MadridTH	UEFA	Winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League	26 May 2018	5th (Previous: 2000, 2014, 2016, 2017)
Enter in the second round
Kashima Antlers	AFC	Winners of the 2018 AFC Champions League	10 November 2018	2nd (Previous: 2016)
Espérance de Tunis	CAF	Winners of the 2018 CAF Champions League	9 November 2018	2nd (Previous: 2011)
Guadalajara	CONCACAF	Winners of the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League	25 April 2018	1st
Enter in the first round
Team Wellington	OFC	Winners of the 2018 OFC Champions League	20 May 2018	1st
Al-Ain	AFC (Hosts)	Winners of the 2017–18 UAE Pro-League	14 May 2018	1st

Venues

The two venues are the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi and the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain.

Abu Dhabi	Al Ain
Zayed Sports City Stadium	Hazza bin Zayed Stadium
Capacity: 43,000	Capacity: 22,717

Match officials

A total of six referees, twelve assistant referees, and six video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament. FIFA announced on 22 November 2018 that the trio of referees and assistant referees from CAF were changed.

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees	Video assistant referee
AFC	Ryuji Sato	Toru Sagara Hiroshi Yamauchi	Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed
CAF	Bamlak Tessema Weyesa	Zakhele Thusi Siwela Waleed Ahmed
CONCACAF	Jair Marrufo	Frank Anderson Corey Rockwell	Mark Geiger
CONMEBOL	Wilton Sampaio	Rodrigo Figueiredo Bruno Boschilia	Mauro Vigliano
OFC	Matthew Conger	Tevita Makasini Mark Rule
UEFA	Gianluca Rocchi	Elenito Di Liberatore Mauro Tonolini	Paweł Gil Massimiliano Irrati Danny Makkelie

Squads

Main article: 2018 FIFA Club World Cup squads

Each team have to name a 23-man squad (three of whom must be goalkeepers). Injury replacements are allowed until 24 hours before the team's first match.

Matches

The draw of the tournament was held on 4 September 2018, 10:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the FIFA Headquarters in Zürich, to decide the matchups of the second round (between the first round winner and teams from AFC, CAF, and CONCACAF), and the opponents of the two second round winners in the semi-finals (teams from CONMEBOL and UEFA). At the time of the draw, the identity of the teams from AFC, CAF and CONMEBOL were not known.

If a match is tied after normal playing time:

• For elimination matches, extra time is played. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out is held to determine the winner.
• For the matches for fifth place and third place, no extra time is played, and a penalty shoot-out is held to determine the winner.

Play-off

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

12 December – Al Ain

Al-Ain (p)

3 (4)

15 December – Al Ain

Team Wellington

3 (3)

Espérance de Tunis

0

18 December – Al Ain

Al-Ain

3

River Plate

2 (4)

Al Ain (p)

2 (5)

22 December – Abu Dhabi

Real Madrid

4

15 December – Al Ain

Al-Ain

1

Kashima Antlers

3

19 December – Abu Dhabi

Guadalajara

2

Kashima Antlers

1

Fifth place

Third place

Real Madrid

3

Espérance de Tunis (p)

1 (6)

Kashima Antlers

0

Guadalajara

1 (5)

River Plate

4

18 December – Al Ain

22 December – Abu Dhabi

All times are local, GST (UTC+4).

First round

12 December 2018 (2018-12-12) 19:30	Al-Ain	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Team Wellington	Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain Attendance: 15,279 Referee: Ryuji Sato (Japan)
	Shiotani  45' Doumbia  49' Berg  85'	Report	Barcia  11' Clapham  15' Ilich  44'
		Penalties
	Diaky Berg El Shahat Shiotani Caio	4–3	Allen Kilkolly Ilich Watson Gulley

Second round

15 December 2018 (2018-12-15) 17:00	Kashima Antlers	3–2	Guadalajara	Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain Attendance: 3,997 Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)
	Nagaki  49' Serginho  69' (pen.) Abe  84'	Report	Zaldívar  3' Léo Silva  90+4' (o.g.)

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15 December 2018 (2018-12-15) 20:30	Espérance de Tunis	0–3	Al-Ain	Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain Attendance: 21,333 Referee: Jair Marrufo (United States)
		Report	Ahmed  2' El Shahat  16' Al-Ahbabi  60'

Match for fifth place

18 December 2018 (2018-12-18) 17:30	Espérance de Tunis	1–1	Guadalajara	Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain Attendance: 5,883 Referee: Matthew Conger (New Zealand)
	Belaïli  38' (pen.)	Report	Sandoval  5' (pen.)
		Penalties
	Belaïli Machani Chemmam Bguir Khenissi Derbali Coulibaly Dhaouadi	6–5	Zaldívar Marín Godínez Van Rankin Salcido Pineda Ponce Brizuela

Semi-finals

18 December 2018 (2018-12-18) 20:30	River Plate	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Al-Ain	Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain Attendance: 21,383 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)
	Borré  11', 16'	Report	Berg  3' Caio  51'
		Penalties
	Scocco Quintero Pratto Borré Pérez	4–5	Caio Shiotani Al-Ahbabi Abdulrahman Yaslam

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19 December 2018 (2018-12-19) 20:30	Kashima Antlers	1–3	Real Madrid	Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi Attendance: 30,554 Referee: Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)
	Doi  78'	Report	Bale  44', 53', 55'

Match for third place

22 December 2018 (2018-12-22) 17:30	Kashima Antlers	0–4	River Plate	Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi Attendance: 13,550 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)
		Report	Zuculini  24' G. Martínez  73', 90+3' Borré  89' (pen.)

Final

Main article: 2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final

22 December 2018 (2018-12-22) 20:30	Real Madrid	4–1	Al-Ain	Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi Attendance: 40,696 Referee: Jair Marrufo (United States)
	Modrić  14' Llorente  60' Ramos  79' Nader  90+1' (o.g.)	Report	Shiotani  86'

Goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Gareth Bale	Real Madrid	3
2	Marcus Berg	Al-Ain	2
	Rafael Santos Borré	River Plate
4	Hiroki Abe	Kashima Antlers	1
	Mohamed Ahmed	Al-Ain
	Bandar Al-Ahbabi	Al-Ain
	Mario Barcia	Team Wellington
	Youcef Belaïli	Espérance de Tunis
	Caio	Al-Ain
	Aaron Clapham	Team Wellington
	Shoma Doi	Kashima Antlers
	Tongo Doumbia	Al-Ain
	Hussein El Shahat	Al-Ain
	Mario Ilich	Team Wellington
	Ryota Nagaki	Kashima Antlers
	Gael Sandoval	Guadalajara
	Serginho	Kashima Antlers
	Tsukasa Shiotani	Al-Ain
	Ángel Zaldívar	Guadalajara

1 own goal

• Léo Silva (Kashima Antlers, against Guadalajara)

External links

• Official website