International football rival
The 2016 FIFA Club World Cup ( formally known as the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2016 presented by Alibaba YunOS Auto for sponsorship reasons ) [ 2 ] was the thirteenth edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA -organised international club football tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, vitamin a well as the host nation ‘s league champions. [ 3 ] The tournament was hosted by Japan. [ 4 ] Barcelona were the fight champions, but could not defend their title after being eliminated in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

real Madrid won their second Club World Cup, defeating hosts Kashima Antlers 4–2 after supernumerary time in the final .

Host bids [edit ]

The application serve for the 2015–16 vitamin a well as the 2017–18 editions, i.e. two hosts, each hosting two years, began in February 2014. [ 5 ] Member associations concerned in hosting had to submit a declaration of pastime by 30 March 2014, and provide the complete bent of bid documents by 25 August 2014. [ 6 ] The FIFA Executive Committee was to select the hosts at their touch in Morocco in December 2014. [ 7 ] however, no such decision regarding the 2015–2016 server was made until 2015. The follow countries expressed an interest in wish to host the tournament : [ 8 ]

  •  India (withdrew interest in November 2014)[9]
  •  Japan

Japan was officially confirmed as hosts of the 2015 and 2016 tournaments on 23 April 2015. [ 4 ]

Qualified teams [edit ]

Venues [edit ]

On 9 June 2016, Suita City Football Stadium in Osaka and International Stadium Yokohama in Yokohama were named as the two venues of the tournament. [ 10 ]

match officials [edit ]

The appointive match officials were : [ 11 ] [ 12 ]
Video adjunct referees were tested during the tournament. [ 13 ] The system was used for the first time when a penalty was awarded by referee Viktor Kassai in the first half of the semi-final between Atlético Nacional and Kashima Antlers after a review of video replay. [ 14 ]

Squads [edit ]

Each team had to name a 23-man squad ( three of whom must be goalkeepers ). injury replacements were allowed until 24 hours before the team ‘s beginning match. [ 3 ] The official squads ( excluding the host team, who was yet to be determined [ citation needed ] ) were announced on 1 December 2016. [ 15 ]

Matches [edit ]

The schedule of the tournament was announced on 15 July 2016. [ 16 ]

A draw was held on 21 September 2016, 11:00 CEST ( UTC+2 ), at the FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, to determine the positions in the bracket for the three teams which enter the quarter-finals. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] If a match was tied after normal meet fourth dimension : [ 3 ]

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

On 18 March 2016, the FIFA Executive Committee agreed that the contest would be part of the International Football Association Board ‘s trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra prison term. [ 20 ]
All times are local, JST ( UTC+9 ). [ 21 ]

Play-off for quarter-finals [edit ]

match for fifth home [edit ]

match for third base position [edit ]

concluding [edit ]

Goalscorers [edit ]

1 own goal

Final ranking [edit ]

Per statistical conventionality in football, matches decided in extra prison term are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draw .
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Awards [edit ]

The keep up awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament. [ 1 ]

FIFA besides named a homo of the match for the best player in each game at the tournament. [ 30 ]

References [edit ]