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2009 FIFA Club World Cup

The 2009 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota for sponsorship reasons) was a football tournament played from 9 to 19 December 2009. It was the sixth FIFA Club World Cup and was played in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009
presented by Toyota
كأس العالم للأندية لكرة القدم
الإمارات العربية المتحدة 2009

United Arab Emirates

9–19 December

7 (from 6 confederations)

2 (in 1 host city)

Spain Barcelona (1st title)

8

25 (3.13 per match)

156,350 (19,544 per match)

Denílson (Pohang Steelers)
4 goals

Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

Defending champions Manchester United did not qualify as they lost the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final to Barcelona, who went on to win the Club World Cup for the first time. After coming from behind to beat Mexican side Atlante in the semi-finals, they did the same against the South American entrants, Estudiantes, in the final, winning 2–1 after extra time.[1] Mauro Boselli put Estudiantes ahead in the 37th minute, but Pedro equalised with a minute left in normal time before Lionel Messi scored the winning goal five minutes into the second half of extra time.


This win made Barcelona the first Spanish side to win the Club World Cup, and it also meant that they had won six competitions in the 2009 calendar year, beating Liverpool's European record of five trophies won in 2001.

Host bids[edit]

On 13 August 2007, FIFA announced that an open tender for the bidding process for the 2009 tournament would be opened in November 2007.[2] The FIFA Executive Committee appointed the United Arab Emirates as hosts for the 2009 and 2010 tournaments on 27 May 2008 during their meeting in Sydney, Australia.[3][4] Australia, Japan and Portugal also placed bids to host the tournament, but Portugal later withdrew from the process.[5]

Match ball[edit]

The Adidas Jabulani, the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, served as the match ball of the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.

Winners: 5 million

$

Runners-up: $4 million

Third place: $2.5 million

Fourth place: $2 million

Fifth place: $1.5 million

Sixth place: $1 million

Seventh place: $0.5 million

Total: $16.5 million

FIFA.com

FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009

(Archived)

2009 FIFA Club World Cup Official Site

FIFA Technical Report