2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship
The 5th FIFA Futsal World Championship was held from 5 December 2004 in Taiwan on 21 November. The 16 participating teams played 40 games in the fifth Futsal World Champion under the auspices of FIFA.
The Spanish team defended by a 2-1 win over Italy in the final of the title successfully. The Brazilian team won the 3rd place match 7-4 against Argentina. The Brazilian Falcão was awarded both top scorer and the best player of the tournament.
- 5.1 Group E
- 5.2 Group F
- 6.1 Semi-finals
- 6.2 3rd place match
- 6.3 final
Hosts and venues
Taiwan taught for the first time the finals of a FIFA competition, though there was no experience with this sport up to the tournament. As alignment sites were selected two halls in the Greater Taipei.
- The NTU School of National Taiwan University in Taipei was the main venue of the fifth Futsal World Cup. Twelve preliminary round and six intermediate round games as well as the semi-finals and finals were held in the University of Halle. Up to 3,500 spectators could watch the games.
- The Linkou high school in the district Linkou of today's New Taipei City, was the venue of twelve preliminary round and six intermediate round games. The hall can hold up to 15,000 spectators and is located in close proximity to Taiwan Taoyuan Airport. The venue is located 15 kilometers outside the city center of Taipei.
Participant
To the 15 finals places who applied a total of 85 associations and thus 22 more than four years earlier. Taiwan as hosts qualified automatically.
In Europe, there were ten qualifying groups of three or four teams in each of which the group winners for the play- off matches qualified. The winners of the five play-off games qualified for the final tournament. Surprises were from mostly, only Russia, World Cup Fourth 2000 already failed in the first round of Bosnia - Herzegovina.
In South America, the qualifiers were determined as part of the Futsal World Grand Prix 2003. All ten CONMEBOL members took part in the competition, could qualify South American champions and runners-up Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
To the two places in the CONCACAF were were played in the CONCACAF Futsal Championship 2004. In addition to the United States, who won the tournament and qualified for the final tournament of Cuba again.
Again for Africa was only one place. In a chaotic qualifying with round-trip games, four teams withdrew during the eight teams entered to Egypt prevailed, which had to play as the only team in all rounds. Final match for the World Cup starting place and at the same time African Cup of Mozambique was that had come without a fight to the final.
In Asia, the participants were played during the Asia Futsal Championship 2004 in Macao. In addition to Iran, Japan and Thailand qualified. The Uzbek team missed on Rank 4 qualification scarce. World Cup hosts Taiwan was already eliminated in one of the four Qualfikationsgruppen.
In Oceania there was the end of July 2004, a qualifying tournament in Canberra ( Australia), which was the same as Ozeanienmeisterschaft. Australia dominated case, as with the previous sweeps the tournament and sat confidently without dot loss and 20:0 gates through.
Only the team of the host Taiwan, in 2004 for the first time participate in the final competition of the FIFA Futsal World Championship.
Mode
The mode was unchanged compared to the previous World Championships. The 16 teams played in the first four preliminary round groups of four teams. Within each group, each team played against each other team. The two best group of each group qualified for the second group stage, in which the eight teams into two groups of four (two each preliminary round winner and two first round second per group) were distributed again and again fought out against any team a game. The top two in each group qualified for the semi-finals, which took place in the knockout system. Case of a tie during the group phase, the goal difference over the placement decision.
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Second round
Group E
Group F
Final round
Semifinal
3rd Place Match
Final
Top scorers
Awards
The Golden Ball for the Most Valuable Player of the tournament went to the Brazilian Falcão. As the second - or third-best player of the tournament, the Spaniard Javier Rodriguez were awarded the Silver Ball and the Italian Vinicius Bacaro with the Bronze Ball. The Golden Boot for the top scorer also received the Brasileaner Falcão. His teammate Indian and Spaniard Marcelo received the Silver and Bronze Shoe. The Fair Play Award went for the third time in a row the team from Brazil.
Luis Amado (Tor ) Kike Marcelo Falcão Javier Rodriguez Coach: Javier Lozano
Farnaklin (Tor ) Salvatore Zaffiro Simi Euler Vinicius Bacaro Coach: Alessandro Nuccorini