Location of teams of the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Team For marketing purposes it was known as the FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup. 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. 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 champions of the four "weaker" confederations played in the quarter-finals the losers played in a fifth place play-off. The competition was a knockout tournament so each team played two or three matches. 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. Six clubs were invited to take part in the tournament, one representing each regional football confederation. To celebrate the marriage between the two competitions, a new trophy was introduced by FIFA.Īs 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.
The 2001 tournament had been cancelled when FIFA's marketing partner ISL went bankrupt. 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 2005 tournament was created as a merger between the Intercontinental Cup and the earlier FIFA Club World Championships.
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