2013 FIFA Confederations Cup

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2013 FIFA Confederations Cup
Copa das Confederações da FIFA
Brasil 2013[1]
Tournament details
Host country Brazil
Dates 15–30 June
Teams 8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s) 6 (in 6 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 4
Goals scored 16 (4 per match)
Attendance 202,438 (50,610 per match)
Top scorer(s) Nigeria Nnamdi Oduamadi
(3 goals)
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The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, the ninth FIFA Confederations Cup, is an international association football tournament being held in Brazil in 2013, as a prelude to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[2] The tournament is held from 15 to 30 June 2013. Brazil are the defending champions.

As the competition partially overlaps with the fourth round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification in Asian zone, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) asked FIFA to consider a change of date.[3] However, the AFC decided that the match day will be adjusted only for Japan, the representative of AFC for the Confederations Cup.[4]

Uruguay, Italy and Spain will have the opportunity to become the third team (after Argentina and France) to win all three major FIFA tournaments: the World Cup, the Olympic football competition and the Confederations Cup.

Contents

Qualified teams

2013 FIFA Confederations Cup participating teams
Team Confederation Qualification method Date qualification secured Participation no.
 Brazil CONMEBOL Hosts 30 October 2007 7th
 Spain UEFA 2010 FIFA World Cup winner 11 July 2010 2nd
 Japan AFC 2011 AFC Asian Cup winner 29 January 2011 5th
 Mexico CONCACAF 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner 25 June 2011 6th
 Uruguay CONMEBOL 2011 Copa América winner 24 July 2011 2nd
 Tahiti OFC 2012 OFC Nations Cup winner 10 June 2012 1st
 Italy UEFA UEFA Euro 2012 runners-up1 28 June 2012 2nd
 Nigeria CAF 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner 10 February 2013 2nd

1Italy was awarded a spot in the competition because Spain had won both the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2012. Since both competitions award their winners a place in the FIFA Confederations Cup, the runner-up of UEFA Euro 2012 received an invitation to the tournament.

Venues

Six stadiums are used, each in a different city.

Belo Horizonte, MG Recife, PE
Estádio Mineirão
Capacity: 62,547[5]
Novo mineirão aérea.jpg		 Arena Pernambuco
Capacity: 44,248[6]
Itaipava Arena Pernambuco 2013.jpg
Brasília, DF Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha
Capacity: 68,009[7]
Estádio Nacional de Brasília.JPG		 Estádio do Maracanã
Capacity: 76,804[8]
Maracana internal view april 2013.jpg
Fortaleza, CE Salvador, BA
Estádio Castelão
Capacity: 64,846[9]
Fortaleza Arena.jpg		 Arena Fonte Nova
Capacity: 52,048[10]
Itaipava Arena - March 2013.jpg

Draw

The draw for the competition was held at the Palácio das Convenções in the Anhembi Convention Center in São Paulo, Brazil on 1 December 2012.[11][12]

Teams from the same confederation were not drawn into the same group, therefore one team from UEFA and one team from CONMEBOL were drawn in each group. Brazil and Spain had been automatically assigned respectively as A1 and B1, and therefore Italy and Uruguay were assigned respectively to Group A and Group B.[13]

Match officials

Internal view of the stadium in Belo Horizonte.

The ten referee trios were announced by FIFA on 13 May 2013.[14][15]

Confederation Referee Assistants
AFC Yuichi Nishimura (Japan) Toru Sagara (Japan)
Toshiyuki Nagi (Japan)
Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan) Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)
Bahadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan)
CAF Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria) Abdelhak Etchiali (Algeria)
Redouane Achik (Morocco)
CONCACAF Joel Aguilar (El Salvador) William Torres (El Salvador)
Juan Zumba (El Salvador)
CONMEBOL Diego Abal (Argentina) Hernán Maidana (Argentina)
Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina)
Enrique Osses (Chile) Sergio Román (Chile)
Carlos Astroza (Chile)
UEFA Howard Webb (England) Mike Mullarkey (England)
Darren Cann (England)
Felix Brych (Germany) Stefan Lupp (Germany)
Mark Borsch (Germany)
Björn Kuipers (Netherlands) Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)
Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)
Pedro Proença (Portugal) Bertino Miranda (Portugal)
Tiago Trigo (Portugal)

Squads

Main article: 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup squads

Teams had to name a 23-man squad (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline of 3 June 2013.[16] The squads were announced by FIFA on 7 June 2013.[17][18]

Group stage

A ticket used during the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brasília.

The official schedule was presented in Rio de Janeiro on 30 May 2012.[19]

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.[16] The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows:

  1. points obtained in all group matches;
  2. goal difference in all group matches;
  3. number of goals scored in all group matches;

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows:

  1. points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  2. goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  3. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

All times listed are Brasília official time (UTC−03:00).[20]

Group A

Main article: 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A
Team Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
 Brazil 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 3
 Italy 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 3
 Mexico 1 0 0 1 1 2 −1 0
 Japan 1 0 0 1 0 3 −3 0
15 June 2013
16:00
 Brazil  3–0  Japan Estádio Nacional, Brasília
Attendance: 67,423
Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)
Neymar Goal 3'
Paulinho Goal 48'
Jô Goal 90+3'		 Report
16 June 2013
16:00
 Mexico  1–2  Italy Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 73,123
Referee: Enrique Osses (Chile)
Hernández Goal 34' (pen.) Report Pirlo Goal 27'
Balotelli Goal 78'
19 June 2013
16:00
 Brazil  Match 5  Mexico Estádio Castelão, Fortaleza
Referee: Howard Webb (England)
Report
19 June 2013
19:00
 Italy  Match 6  Japan Arena Pernambuco, Recife
Referee: Diego Abal (Argentina)
Report
22 June 2013
16:00
 Italy  Match 9  Brazil Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
Report
22 June 2013
16:00
 Japan  Match 10  Mexico Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Report

Group B

Main article: 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B
Team Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
 Nigeria 1 1 0 0 6 1 +5 3
 Spain 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 3
 Uruguay 1 0 0 1 1 2 −1 0
 Tahiti 1 0 0 1 1 6 −5 0
16 June 2013
19:00
 Spain  2–1  Uruguay Arena Pernambuco, Recife
Attendance: 41,705
Referee: Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)
Pedro Goal 20'
Soldado Goal 32'		 Report Suárez Goal 88'
17 June 2013
16:00
 Tahiti  1–6  Nigeria Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Attendance: 20,187
Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
J. Tehau Goal 54' Report Vallar Goal 5' (o.g.)
Oduamadi Goal 10', 26', 76'
J. Tehau Goal 69' (o.g.)
Echiéjilé Goal 80'
20 June 2013
16:00
 Spain  Match 7  Tahiti Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Referee: Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)
Report
20 June 2013
19:00
 Nigeria  Match 8  Uruguay Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)
Report
23 June 2013
16:00
 Nigeria  Match 11  Spain Estádio Castelão, Fortaleza
Report
23 June 2013
16:00
 Uruguay  Match 12  Tahiti Arena Pernambuco, Recife
Report

Knockout stage

In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty spot to determine the winner.[16]

  Semi-finals Final
26 June – Belo Horizonte
 Winner Group A    
 Runner-up Group B    
 
30 June – Rio de Janeiro
     Winner Match 13  
   Winner Match 14  
Third place
27 June – Fortaleza 30 June – Salvador
 Winner Group B    Loser Match 13  
 Runner-up Group A      Loser Match 14  

Semifinals

26 June 2013
16:00
 Winner Group A Match 13 Runner-up Group B Estadio Mineirao, Belo Horizonte
27 June 2013
16:00
 Winner Group B Match 14 Runner-up Group A Estadio Castelao, Fortaleza

Third place play-off

30 June 2013
13:00
 Loser Match 13 Match 15 Loser Match 14 Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador

Final

30 June 2013
19:00
 Winner Match 13 Match 16 Winner Match 14 Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

Goalscorers

3 goals
1 goal
Own goal

Match ball

Adidas Cafusa — the official match ball of the tournament

The official match ball for the Cup is produced by Adidas. It was unveiled during the draw for the competition. The ball is named "Cafusa" (pronounced: [kaˈfuˈza]) – a portmanteau of the words "Carnaval" (Carnival), "Futebol" (Football) and "Samba".[21] Former Brazil captain Cafu was invited to officially unveil the ball.[21]

Prize money

The national football associations will receive prize money from FIFA based on their representative team's final finishing position.

Competition Stage Final Position Prize money (US Dollars)
Final Winner $4.1m
Runner-up $3.6m
Third place playoff Third place $3m
Fourth place $2.5m
Group stage Fifth to Eighth place $1.7m

Source: [22]

Goal-line technology

On 2 April 2013, FIFA announced that GoalControl GmbH was chosen as the official goal-line technology provider for the tournament.[23]

Controversy

During the opening ceremony, held at the Brasilia National Stadium on 15 June 2013, the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and the FIFA president Sepp Blatter were heavily booed by the nearly 70,000 fans attending the event. The boos started when Blatter and Rousseff were announced to do the inaugural speeches of the 2013 edition of the Confederations Cup.[24] Shortly after that, Twitter hashtags against the Brazilian president popped up and reached the worldwide top ten list of trending topics.[25]

Prior to the game, demonstrations outside of the stadium were organized by people unhappy with the amount of public money invested in both the Confederations Cup and the FIFA World Cup.[26] These demonstrations occur while other big cities in Brazil are experiencing riots due to the recent increase in bus fare prices and overall high inflation.[27][26] Similar protests took place prior to the game between Mexico and Italy at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.[28][29]

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