2005 FIFA Confederations Cup

2005 FIFA Confederations Cup

Konföderationen-Pokal 2005
Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Dates	15 June – 29 June
Teams	8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (2nd title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	56 (3.5 per match)
Attendance	603,106 (37,694 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Adriano (5 goals)
Best player	Adriano
← 2003 2009 →

The 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup football tournament was the seventh FIFA Confederations Cup. It was held in Germany between 15 June and 29 June 2005. The tournament was won by 2002 FIFA World Cup winners Brazil, who defeated Argentina 4–1 in the final Waldstadion in Frankfurt. The final was a rematch of the Copa América final also won by Brazil. It was Brazil's second win at the Confederations Cup.

Participating teams

2005 FIFA Confederations Cup participating teams

Team	Confederation	Qualification	Participation
Germany	UEFA	2006 FIFA World Cup host	2nd
Brazil	CONMEBOL	2002 FIFA World Cup winners	5th
Mexico	CONCACAF	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners	5th
Tunisia	CAF	2004 African Cup of Nations winners	1st
Greece	UEFA	UEFA Euro 2004 winners	1st
Argentina	CONMEBOL	Copa América 2004 runners-up1	3rd
Japan	AFC	2004 AFC Asian Cup winners	4th
Australia	OFC	2004 OFC Nations Cup winners	3rd

¹Argentina was awarded a spot in the competition because Brazil had won both the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the Copa América 2004. Since both competitions award their winners a spot in the Confederations Cup, the runner-up in the Copa América 2004 was called to play.

Venues

Frankfurt	Cologne	Hanover	Leipzig	Nuremberg
Commerzbank-Arena	RheinEnergieStadion	AWD-Arena	Zentralstadion	Frankenstadion
Capacity: 48,132	Capacity: 46,120	Capacity: 44,652	Capacity: 44,200	Capacity: 41,926

• ^1 As the Waldstadion.

All five venues were reused for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Match officials

Africa Mourad Daami Asia Shamsul Maidin Europe Herbert Fandel Ľuboš Micheľ Roberto Rosetti

North America, Central America and Caribbean Peter Prendergast Oceania Matthew Breeze South America Carlos Amarilla Carlos Chandía

Final kick-off

Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup squads

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	3	2	1	0	9	5	+4	7
Argentina	3	2	1	0	8	5	+3	7
Tunisia	3	1	0	2	3	5	–2	3
Australia	3	0	0	3	5	10	–5	0

15 June 2005 18:00 CEST	Argentina	2 – 1	Tunisia	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne Attendance: 28,033 Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
	Riquelme  33' (pen.) Saviola  57'	(Report)	Guemamdia  72' (pen.)

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15 June 2005 21:00 CEST	Germany	4 – 3	Australia	Waldstadion, Frankfurt Attendance: 46,466 Referee: Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)
	Kurányi  17' Mertesacker  23' Ballack  60' (pen.) Podolski  88'	(Report)	Skoko  21' Aloisi  31', 90+2'

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18 June 2005 18:00 CEST	Tunisia	0 – 3	Germany	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne Attendance: 44,337 Referee: Peter Prendergast (Jamaica)
		(Report)	Ballack  74' (pen.) Schweinsteiger  80' Hanke  88'

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18 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Australia	2 – 4	Argentina	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg Attendance: 25,218 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
	Aloisi  61' (pen.), 70'	(Report)	Figueroa  12', 53', 89' Riquelme  31' (pen.)

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21 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Australia	0 – 2	Tunisia	Zentralstadion, Leipzig Attendance: 23,952 Referee: Carlos Chandía (Chile)
		(Report)	Santos  26', 70'

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21 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Argentina	2 – 2	Germany	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg Attendance: 42,088 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
	Riquelme  33' Cambiasso  74'	(Report)	Kurányi  29' Asamoah  51'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2	4
Japan	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Greece	3	0	1	2	0	4	–4	1

16 June 2005 18:00 CEST	Japan	1 – 2	Mexico	AWD-Arena, Hanover Attendance: 24,036 Referee: Matthew Breeze (Australia)
	Yanagisawa  12'	(Report)	Zinha  39' Fonseca  64'

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16 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Brazil	3 – 0	Greece	Zentralstadion, Leipzig Attendance: 42,507 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
	Adriano  41' Robinho  46' Juninho  81'	(Report)

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19 June 2005 18:00 CEST	Greece	0 – 1	Japan	Waldstadion, Frankfurt Attendance: 34,314 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
		(Report)	Oguro  76'

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19 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Mexico	1 – 0	Brazil	AWD-Arena, Hanover Attendance: 43,677 Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
	Borgetti  59'	(Report)

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22 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Greece	0 – 0	Mexico	Waldstadion, Frankfurt Attendance: 31,285 Referee: Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)
		(Report)

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22 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Japan	2 – 2	Brazil	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne Attendance: 44,922 Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)
	Nakamura  27' Oguro  88'	(Report)	Robinho  10' Ronaldinho  32'

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	25 June - Nuremberg
	Germany	2
	Brazil	3
					29 June - Frankfurt
					Brazil	4
					Argentina	1
					Third place
	26 June - Hannover			29 June - Leipzig
	Mexico	1 (5)		Germany (a.e.t.)	4
	Argentina (pens.)	1 (6)			Mexico	3

Semi-finals

25 June 2005 18:00 CEST	Germany	2 – 3	Brazil	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg Attendance: 42,187 Referee: Carlos Chandía (Chile)
	Podolski  23' Ballack  45+3' (pen.)	(Report)	Adriano  21', 76' Ronaldinho  43' (pen.)

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26 June 2005 18:00 CEST	Mexico	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Argentina	AWD-Arena, Hanover Attendance: 40,718 Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
	Salcido  104'	(Report)	Figueroa  110'
		Penalties
	Pérez Pardo Borgetti Salcido Pineda Osorio	5 – 6	Riquelme Rodríguez Aimar Galletti Sorín Cambiasso

Third place playoff

29 June 2005 18:00 CEST	Germany	4 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Mexico	Zentralstadion, Leipzig Attendance: 43,335 Referee: Matthew Breeze (Australia)
	Podolski  37' Schweinsteiger  41' Huth  79' Ballack  97'	(Report)	Fonseca  40' Borgetti  58', 85'

Final

Main article: 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup Final

29 June 2005 20:45 CEST	Brazil	4 – 1	Argentina	Waldstadion, Frankfurt Attendance: 45,591 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
	Adriano  11', 63' Kaká  16' Ronaldinho  47'	(Report)	Aimar  65'

Awards

Golden Ball Winner	Golden Shoe Winner	FIFA Fair Play Trophy
Adriano	Adriano	Greece

Silver Ball Winner	Silver Shoe Winner
Juan Riquelme	Michael Ballack
Bronze Ball Winner	Bronze Shoe Winner
Ronaldinho	John Aloisi

Goal scorers

5 goals

• Adriano

4 goals

• Luciano Figueroa
• John Aloisi
• Michael Ballack

3 goals

• Juan Román Riquelme
• Ronaldinho
• Lukas Podolski
• Jared Borgetti

2 goals

• Robinho
• Kevin Kurányi
• Bastian Schweinsteiger
• Masashi Oguro
• José Francisco Fonseca
• Francileudo Santos

1 goal

• Esteban Cambiasso
• Pablo Aimar
• Javier Saviola
• Josip Skoko
• Kaká
• Juninho
• Gerald Asamoah
• Robert Huth
• Per Mertesacker
• Mike Hanke
• Atsushi Yanagisawa
• Shunsuke Nakamura
• Sinha
• Carlos Salcido
• Haykel Guemamdia

External links

• Official Confederations Cup 2005 site