2013 FIFA Club World Cup

The FIFA Club World Cup 2013 ( English FIFA Club World Cup 2013) was the tenth edition of this international football competition for club teams and was held from December 11 to 21 for the first time held in Morocco. The winner was the team of Bayern Munich.

  • 7.1 Adidas Golden Ball
  • 7.2 FIFA Fair Play Trophy

Award

Originally, four States had applied to host the tournament in 2013 and 2014:

  • Iran Iran
  • Morocco Morocco
  • South Africa South Africa
  • United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates ( have hosted the tournament in 2009 and 2010 in Abu Dhabi )

On 17 December 2011, the FIFA Morocco awarded the contract.

Mode

Compared with the current competition format since 2007 there were no changes. The tournament was played with seven participants. In addition to the six winners of the continental champion competitions at club level from Asia ( AFC ), Africa ( CAF), the Caribbean, North and Central America ( CONCACAF ), South America ( CONMEBOL ), Europe ( UEFA ) and Oceania (OFC ) also played the Moroccan master, the first of a playoff game against the winner of the OFC Champions League had to deny. Had a club from Morocco won the CAF Champions League, then the best placed nichtmarokkanische club would have been qualified. The winner of the elimination game played with African, Asian and CONCACAF representatives of two participants in the semi-finals. For this, the teams from Europe and South America were as previously set and played only two games each. It was played in the knockout system. At eleven days eight games were held. The winning team received 3.65 million euros, the runner-up 2.92 million euros, the third-place 1.82 million euros and the fourth-placed 1.46 million euros.

Venues

Participant

The tournament at a glance

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on 9 October 2013. Kick-off times refer to local time UTC ± 0, which corresponds to the Central European Time minus one hour.

Final

After the surprising 3-1 win in the semifinals against Atlético Mineiro of Brazil Raja Casablanca was final opponents Bayern Munich. Dante and Thiago brought Bayern Munich early lead. After a one-sided first half run with almost 80 percent of possession Bavaria Casablanca was in the second half of carelessness in defense of Bavaria not use. In the final phase Xherdan Shaqiri recorded on the opposite side another hit the bar. Thus, the FC Bayern Munich FIFA Club World Cup and thus its fifth title secured the first German team in 2013.

Statistics

Honors

Adidas Golden Ball

The Golden Ball for the best player of the tournament went to Frenchman Franck Ribéry from the title holder FC Bayern Munich. The Silver Ball was awarded to his German teammate Philipp Lahm. The Bronze Ball received the Moroccans Mouhcine Iajour of Raja Casablanca.

FIFA Fair Play Trophy

The Fair Play Award for athletic proper appearance on and off the turf was able to secure the FC Bayern Munich.

Referee

On the part of FIFA was nominated by each continental federation, with the exception of Oceania, a team of referees. Africa presented in addition a reserve trio.

Assistive

The first time was at a club called the World Cup kick - spray for use. With free-kicks, the referee marked with a spray can to distance the football players had to comply to the ball when they formed a wall, and the place had to shoot from the shooter of the. The sprayed on the lawn line was no longer visible after about a minute. Critics complained, this news was delaying the game.

Also, turn the goal-line was tested. After two other systems were tested in the previous year, came in 2013 in Morocco Goal system Control -4D of the German company Goal Control is used, which is based on seven high-speed cameras per goal. During the tournament, the stadium visitors were first presented animations of disputed goal scenes on large display panels. These animations that were broadcast on television and based on the System Control Goal Replay made ​​visible whether a ball had crossed the goal line in full, a necessary condition for a correct score.

Television transmission

ARD will broadcast live the games of the UEFA Champions League winner FC Bayern Munich.

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