2019 FIFA Club World Cup

2019 FIFA Club World Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Qatar
Dates	11–21 December 2019
Teams	7 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (1st title)
Runner-up	Flamengo
Third place	Monterrey
Fourth place	Al-Hilal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	30 (3.75 per match)
Attendance	166,426 (20,803 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Baghdad Bounedjah Hamdou Elhouni (3 goals each)
Best player	Mohamed Salah
Fair play award	Espérance de Tunis
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The 2019 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019 presented by Alibaba Cloud for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions. The tournament was hosted by Qatar between 11 and 21 December 2019, taking place at two venues in Doha.

Liverpool won the final 1–0 after extra time against Flamengo for their first FIFA Club World Cup title.

Host appointment

With proposals for an expanded Club World Cup, FIFA delayed the announcement of a host. A host was to be announced by FIFA on 15 March 2019, though this was later delayed. On 28 May 2019, FIFA announced that the 2019 and 2020 tournament host would be appointed at the FIFA Council meeting in Paris, France on 3 June 2019.

Qatar was appointed as the host for the 2019 and 2020 tournaments on 3 June 2019, serving as test events ahead of their hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Club World Cup will retain its original format ahead of the revamp in 2021.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team	Confederation	Qualification	Qualified date	Participation
Entering in the semi-finals
Flamengo	CONMEBOL	Winners of the 2019 Copa Libertadores	02019-11-23-23 November 2019	1st
Liverpool	UEFA	Winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League	02019-06-01-1 June 2019	2nd (Previous: 2005)
Entering in the second round
Al-Hilal	AFC	Winners of the 2019 AFC Champions League	02019-11-24-24 November 2019	1st
Espérance de Tunis	CAF	Winners of the 2018–19 CAF Champions League	02019-08-07-7 August 2019	3rd (Previous: 2011, 2018)
Monterrey	CONCACAF	Winners of the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League	02019-05-01-1 May 2019	4th (Previous: 2011, 2012, 2013)
Entering in the first round
Hienghène Sport	OFC	Winners of the 2019 OFC Champions League	02019-05-11-11 May 2019	1st
Al-Sadd	AFC (Hosts)	Winners of the 2018–19 Qatar Stars League	02019-08-13-13 August 2019	2nd (Previous: 2011)

Venues

FIFA announced the three venues for the tournament, along with the match schedule, on 30 September 2019. All three stadiums are located in Doha, with the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium and the Khalifa International Stadium having hosted matches at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, including the final for the latter. The newly built Education City Stadium, which was selected to host the final match, is also a host venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, as is the Khalifa International Stadium. On 7 December 2019, FIFA moved all three matches (the second semi-final on 18 December and the third place match and final on 21 December) that were due to be played at the Education City Stadium to Khalifa International Stadium after the opening of the Education City Stadium was postponed to early 2020.

	Doha
	Khalifa International Stadium	Jassim bin Hamad Stadium
	Capacity: 45,416	Capacity: 11,918

Match officials

A total of five referees, ten assistant referees, and six video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees	Video assistant referee
AFC	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Taleb Al-Marri Saoud Al-Maqaleh	Fu Ming
CAF	Mustapha Ghorbal	Mahmoud Abouelregal Mokrane Gourari	Bakary Gassama
CONCACAF	Ismail Elfath	Kyle Atkins Corey Parker	Alan Kelly
CONMEBOL	Roberto Tobar	Christian Schiemann Claudio Ríos Ortiz	Esteban Ostojich
UEFA	Ovidiu Hațegan	Octavian Șovre Sebastian Gheorghe	Juan Martínez Munuera Benoît Millot

Abdelkader Zitouni of Tahiti (OFC) was also named as a support referee.

Squads

Main article:2019 FIFA Club World Cup squads

Each team had 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 16 September 2019, 14:00 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 (against teams from CONMEBOL and UEFA). At the time of the draw, the identity of the teams from AFC 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

11 December – Doha (Jassim)

Al-Sadd (a.e.t.)

3

14 December – Doha (Jassim)

Hienghène Sport

1

Monterrey

3

18 December – Doha (Khalifa)

Al-Sadd

2

Monterrey

1

Liverpool

2

21 December – Doha (Khalifa)

Liverpool (a.e.t.)

1

14 December – Doha (Jassim)

Flamengo

0

Al-Hilal

1

17 December – Doha (Khalifa)

Espérance de Tunis

0

Flamengo

3

Fifth place

Third place

Al-Hilal

1

Al-Sadd

2

Monterrey (p)

2 (4)

Espérance de Tunis

6

Al-Hilal

2 (3)

17 December – Doha (Khalifa)

21 December – Doha (Khalifa)

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).

First round

11 December 2019 (2019-12-11) 20:30	Al-Sadd	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Hienghène Sport	Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha Attendance: 7,047 Referee: Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)
	Bounedjah  26' Hassan  100' Ró-Ró  114'	Report	Roine  46'

Second round

14 December 2019 (2019-12-14) 17:00	Al-Hilal	1–0	Espérance de Tunis	Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha Attendance: 7,726 Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)
	Gomis  73'	Report

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14 December 2019 (2019-12-14) 20:30	Monterrey	3–2	Al-Sadd	Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha Attendance: 4,878 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)
	Vangioni  23' Funes Mori  45+1' Rodríguez  77'	Report	Bounedjah  66' Hassan  89'

Match for fifth place

17 December 2019 (2019-12-17) 17:30	Al-Sadd	2–6	Espérance de Tunis	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 15,037 Referee: Abdelkader Zitouni (Tahiti)
	Bounedjah  32' (pen.) Al-Haydos  49' (pen.)	Report	Elhouni  6', 42', 74' Badri  13', 25' (pen.) Derbali  87'

Semi-finals

17 December 2019 (2019-12-17) 20:30	Flamengo	3–1	Al-Hilal	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 21,588 Referee: Ismail Elfath (United States)
	De Arrascaeta  49' Bruno Henrique  78' Al-Bulaihi  82' (o.g.)	Report	Al-Dawsari  18'

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18 December 2019 (2019-12-18) 20:30	Monterrey	1–2	Liverpool	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 45,416 Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)
	Funes Mori  14'	Report	Keïta  12' Firmino  90+1'

Match for third place

21 December 2019 (2019-12-21) 17:30	Monterrey	Match 7	Al-Hilal	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 19,318 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)
	A. González  55' Meza  60'	Report	Carlos Eduardo  35' Gomis  66'
		Penalties
	J. González Medina Funes Mori Vásquez Cárdenas	4–3	Gomis Giovinco Carlos Eduardo Jang Hyun-soo Kanno

Final

Main article:2019 FIFA Club World Cup Final

21 December 2019 (2019-12-21) 20:30	Liverpool	1–0	Flamengo	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 45,416 Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)
	Firmino  99'	Report

Goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd	3
	Hamdou Elhouni	Espérance de Tunis
3	Anice Badri	Espérance de Tunis	2
	Roberto Firmino	Liverpool
	Rogelio Funes Mori	Monterrey
	Bafétimbi Gomis	Al-Hilal
	Abdelkarim Hassan	Al-Sadd
8	Bruno Henrique	Flamengo	1
	Carlos Eduardo	Al-Hilal
	Salem Al-Dawsari	Al-Hilal
	Giorgian De Arrascaeta	Flamengo
	Sameh Derbali	Espérance de Tunis
	Alfonso González	Monterrey
	Hassan Al-Haydos	Al-Sadd
	Naby Keïta	Liverpool
	Maximiliano Meza	Monterrey
	Carlos Rodríguez	Monterrey
	Antoine Roïné	Hienghène Sport
	Ró-Ró	Al-Sadd
	Leonel Vangioni	Monterrey

1 own goal

• Ali Al-Bulaihi (Al-Hilal, against Flamengo)

Criticism

In 2017, three member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council along with Egypt cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and criminalised trips for their citizens to the country. In October, FIFA sold 200 Club World Cup tickets to fans from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and 500 to those from the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. In November 2019, Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticised FIFA for neglecting fan welfare and selling tickets for the Club World Cup to those banned by their governments. HRW stated that FIFA should be aware of the risks that the football supporters can face in their countries and ensure that they are not exposed to the risk of harassment or prosecution.

External links

• Official website