FIFA Confederations Cup
The FIFA Confederations Cup, colloquially Confed Cup (after eng. FIFA Confederations Cup), is an intercontinental tournament for football teams. 1992 and 1995 it was held as the King Fahd Cup since 1997 by football 's world governing body FIFA. The tournament was played until 2005 initially every two years and has since been held every four years. Eligible are the current champions of the six confederations, the reigning world champion and the respective hosts.
Meanwhile, the Confederations Cup also serves as host country of the next World Cup, as happened as organizational dress rehearsal at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2001, which took place as the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Even Germany, South Africa and Brazil carried the tournament a year before the World Cup 2006, World Cup 2010 and World Cup 2014 in their own country.
Brazil has seven participations record attendance and with four titles record winner of the FIFA Confederations Cup. Brazil won the first team title three times in a row and has since the competition will be held as a FIFA Confederations Cup ever attended, but was not qualified as King Fahd Cup in the first two sweeps or not invited as a world champion.
History
As a precursor applies in the years 1992 and 1995 in Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia) under the name of King Fahd Cup discharged Intercontinental Championship. The Saudi Arabian King Fahd ibn Abd al - Aziz ( 1921/23-2005 ) was named and initiator of this competition. Eligible to play were the current continental champions at the level of national teams and the host. Thus were these tournaments the logical continuation of competitions such as the Afro - Asian Cup for national teams and the Artemio Franchi Cup.
Participated in the first tournament in 1992, four teams from four continents (Africa, Asia, North and Central America and the Caribbean, and South America) in part, the number of participants increased in the second playout in 1995 on six teams from five continents (Africa, Asia [ continental champions host ], North and Central America, Europe and South America). Winner in 1992 was South American champions Argentina and 1995 European champions Denmark.
Qualification
At the tournament are eligible to the winners of the six continental championships, the current world champion and the respective hosts.
If the host or the world champion at the same time winner in the contest of his continent, moves the runner-up of the respective competition by: So taking for example the FIFA Confederations Cup 2005 South American representatives Argentina second in the Copa America 2004 in part because of South America champion Brazil was already qualified as a world champion. The same was true for Spain in 2013, so that European Vice Champion Italy was also eligible to play.
Several times it came at the Confederations Cup before already that qualified teams refrained from participation.
Game Mode
Since the takeover by FIFA and renamed Confederations Cup in 1997, the competition will be held in a single game mode. The winners of the continental federation competitions, the world champion and the host are a total of eight teams participating in the tournament. The four teams entered the two groups (A and B) in the championship system against each other, ie, each team plays once against every other team in the group. In the group stage, counts a victory three, one for a draw, one defeat does not score.
Case of a tie between two teams decided in the following order on the next round: the goal difference and goals scored in all group matches, the matches between the teams in question (number of points, goal difference, goals scored ), ultimately the Fairplay list or the lot. The first and second in each group progress to the semifinals. At the Confederations Cup, there are due to the small number of participants no eighth - and quarter-finals.
In the semifinals, the third-place match and final will be played in the knockout system. Is it at the games of the final round after the regular time of 90 minutes in a draw, it comes to renewal, and possibly (if still firmly stands no winner) the penalty shoot-out.
Erstteilnahmen
So far there have been in every tournament at least a nation that took part for the first time.
The tournaments at a glance
Rankings
* One winner will qualify simultaneously on two or three ways for the competition. ** The starting place for the continental champions of South America was reserved for the winner of the Copa América 1995. World champions Brazil won but this year even the Copa América 1997.
Records
Awards
At the end of each FIFA Confederations Cup several awards will be awarded to the best players and the fairest team. Currently there are four different awards:
- The Adidas Golden Ball for best player
- The Adidas Golden Shoe for top scorer
- The Adidas Golden Glove for the Best Goalkeeper
- The FIFA Fair Play Award for the fairest team
In the two previous tournaments around the King Fahd Cup in 1992 and 1995 there were no official awards.