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2001 FIFA Club World Championship

Campeonato Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA España 2001
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Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	28 July – 12 August (cancelled)
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
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The 2001 FIFA Club World Championship was a football tournament arranged by FIFA to take place in Spain from 28 July to 12 August 2001. It was supposed to be the second edition of the FIFA Club World Championship, after the first edition in 2000, but was cancelled owing to a combination of factors such as the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL. FIFA had originally planned to postpone the tournament until 2003.

Host bids

The FIFA Executive Committee appointed Spain as tournament hosts on 3 August 2000 during their meeting in Zürich, Switzerland.

Qualified teams

The clubs invited to the 2001 tournament were:

Team	Confederation	Qualification	Participation
Deportivo La Coruña	UEFA (host)	Winner of the 1999–2000 La Liga	1st
Hearts of Oak	CAF	Winner of the 2000 CAF Champions League	1st
Zamalek	CAF	Winner of the 2000 African Cup Winners' Cup	1st
Al-Hilal	AFC	Winner of the 2000 Asian Super Cup	1st
Júbilo Iwata	AFC	Winner of the 1999 Asian Super Cup	1st
Real Madrid	UEFA	Winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League	2nd (Previous: 2000)
Galatasaray	UEFA	Winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup	1st
Los Angeles Galaxy	CONCACAF	Winner of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions' Cup	1st
Olimpia	CONCACAF	Runner-up of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions' Cup	1st
Wollongong Wolves	OFC	Winner of the 2001 Oceania Club Championship	1st
Boca Juniors	CONMEBOL	Winner of the 2000 Copa Libertadores	1st
Palmeiras	CONMEBOL	Winner of the 1999 Copa Libertadores	1st

Notes

1. Participation number if the tournament would have been played

Venues

Matches were to be played in Madrid, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela.

Madrid
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu	Estadio Vicente Calderón
Capacity: 85,000	Capacity: 54,907
A CoruñaMadridSantiago de Compostela
A Coruña	Santiago de Compostela
Estadio Riazor	Estadio Multiusos de San Lazaro
Capacity: 32,660	Capacity: 12,000

Format

Due to the expansion of the tournament to 12 teams, the group stage saw the teams divided into three groups of four. The top team in each group and the best second-placed team qualified for the semi-finals.

Group stage

The group stage draw was held on 6 March 2001 at the Congress Centre in A Coruña; however, on 18 May 2001, FIFA confirmed that the tournament had been cancelled. They made plans to hold an expanded, 16-team tournament in 2003, again in Spain, but it was ultimately not until 2005 in Japan that the tournament was finally resurrected.

Group A

• Boca Juniors
• Deportivo La Coruña
• Wollongong Wolves
• Zamalek

Boca Juniors	Cancelled	Deportivo La Coruña

Wollongong Wolves	Cancelled	Zamalek

Deportivo La Coruña	Cancelled	Wollongong Wolves

Zamalek	Cancelled	Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors	Cancelled	Wollongong Wolves

Deportivo La Coruña	Cancelled	Zamalek

Group B

• Al-Hilal
• Galatasaray
• Olimpia
• Palmeiras

Palmeiras	Cancelled	Olimpia

Galatasaray	Cancelled	Al-Hilal

Olimpia	Cancelled	Galatasaray

Al-Hilal	Cancelled	Palmeiras

Palmeiras	Cancelled	Galatasaray

Olimpia	Cancelled	Al-Hilal

Group C

• Hearts of Oak
• Júbilo Iwata
• Los Angeles Galaxy
• Real Madrid

Real Madrid	Cancelled	Júbilo Iwata

Hearts of Oak	Cancelled	Los Angeles Galaxy

Júbilo Iwata	Cancelled	Hearts of Oak

Los Angeles Galaxy	Cancelled	Real Madrid

Real Madrid	Cancelled	Hearts of Oak

Júbilo Iwata	Cancelled	Los Angeles Galaxy

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Match for third place

Final

References

1. ^ "FIFA Club World Championship Spain 2001: Match Schedule" (PDF). FIFA. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2001. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
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3. "World Club Championship might grow". USA Today. 10 August 2001. Archived from the original on 22 February 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2007.
4. Jones, Grahame L. (19 May 2001). "Galaxy's World Is Rocked". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
5. "FIFA decides to postpone 2001 Club World Championship to 2003". FIFA. 18 May 2001. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
6. "Fifa agrees World Cup rotation". BBC Sport. 3 August 2000. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
7. "Arbitration CAS 2014/A/3776 Gibraltar Football Association (GFA) v. Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), award of 27 April 2016" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
8. "Global rights to FIFA's Club World Championship awarded to Brazilian sports marketing agency". PR Newswire. 26 February 2001. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
9. "Spain 2001: results of the draw". FIFA. 6 March 2001. Archived from the original on 20 May 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
10. "Remembering the ill-fated Club World Cup of 2001". The Football Times. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2023.

External links

• 2001 FIFA Club World Championship at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

• FIFA Club World Cup tournaments
• 2001 in association football
• Cancelled association football competitions
• 2001–02 in Spanish football