The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship (officially known as the FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005 for sponsorship reasons) was the second FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition organised by FIFA for the champion clubs of the six continental confederations. It was the first to be held after by the merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Championship (which had been played in a first edition in 2000).

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2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup

FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup Japan 2005 FIFAクラブワールドチャンピオンシップトヨタカップジャパン2005
FIFA CWCTC 2005 official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Japan
Dates	11–18 December
Teams	6 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	São Paulo (1st title)
Runners-up	Liverpool
Third place	Saprissa
Fourth place	Al-Ittihad
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Goals scored	19 (2.71 per match)
Attendance	261,456 (37,351 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Amoroso (São Paulo) Mohammed Noor (Al-Ittihad) Peter Crouch (Liverpool) Álvaro Saborío (Saprissa) 2 goals each
Best player(s)	Rogério Ceni (São Paulo)
Fair play award	Liverpool
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The tournament was held in Japan from 11 to 18 December 2005 and won by Brazilian club São Paulo, who defeated English side Liverpool 1–0 in the final.

The 2005 tournament was created as a merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the earlier FIFA Club World Championships. The previous of these had been running as an annual tournament between the champions of Europe and South America since 1960; the latter had undergone just one tournament, the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. The 2001 tournament had been cancelled when FIFA's marketing partner ISL went bankrupt. To celebrate the marriage between the two competitions, a new trophy was introduced by FIFA.

As a result of this merger, the tournament was conceived as being smaller than the original Club World Championship, which had lasted two weeks, yet building on the one game format of the Intercontinental Cup. Six clubs were invited to take part in the tournament, one representing each regional football confederation. The competition's name, which was the simple union between the name of the two previous merging competitions, was evidently too long, and was going to be reduced the following year, becoming the FIFA Club World Cup.

The competition was a knockout tournament so each team played two or three matches. The champions of the four "weaker" confederations played in the quarter-finals; the losers played in a fifth place play-off. The winners were then joined by the European and South American champions in the semi-finals; the losers played in a third place play-off.

The matches were held in Tokyo's National (Olympic) Stadium, Toyota Stadium in Toyota, Aichi, near Nagoya and the International Stadium in Yokohama, where the final was played. For marketing purposes it was known as the FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup.

São Paulo

Liverpool

Al-Ittihad

Al Ahly

Saprissa

Sydney FC

Location of teams of the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship

It was all six clubs' first appearance in the FIFA Club World Championship.

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Team	Confederation	Qualification
Entering in the semi-finals
Liverpool	UEFA	2004–05 UEFA Champions League winners
São Paulo	CONMEBOL	2005 Copa Libertadores winners
Entering in the quarter-finals
Al Ahly	CAF	2005 CAF Champions League winners
Al-Ittihad	AFC	2005 AFC Champions League winners
Saprissa	CONCACAF	2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup winners
Sydney FC	OFC	2005 Oceania Club Championship winners

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Tokyo, Yokohama and Toyota were the three cities to serve as venues for the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup.

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Yokohama	Tokyo	Toyota
International Stadium Yokohama	National Stadium	Toyota Stadium
35°30′36.16″N 139°36′22.49″E	35°40′41.00″N 139°42′53.00″E	35°05′04.02″N 137°10′14.02″E
Capacity: 72,327	Capacity: 57,363	Capacity: 45,000
Yokohama Tokyo Toyota 2005 FIFA Club World Championship (Japan)

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The tournament was quite well received, although some commentators have stated that, excluding São Paulo and Liverpool, the quality of football was quite poor leading to a view that it might have been better retaining the two continent format of the European/South American Cup.^[1]