2001 Fifa Club World Championship

2001 FIFA Club World Championship
Campeonato Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA España 2001
	2001 FIFA Club World Championship ; official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	28 July – 12 August (cancelled)
Teams	12 (from 6 confederations)
	← 2000 2005 →

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

Location of the teams intending to participate in the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship

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
Real Madrid	UEFA	Winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League	2nd (Previous: 2000)
Galatasaray	UEFA	Winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup	1st
Boca Juniors	CONMEBOL	Winner of the 2000 Copa Libertadores	1st
Palmeiras	CONMEBOL	Winner of the 1999 Copa Libertadores	1st
Los Angeles Galaxy	CONCACAF	Winner of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions' Cup	1st
Olimpia	CONCACAF	Runner-up of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions' Cup	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
Wollongong Wolves	OFC	Winner of the 2001 Oceania Club Championship	1st

Notes

Venues

Matches were to be played in Madrid, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela.^{[citation needed]}

Madrid
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu	Estadio Vicente Calderón
Capacity: 85,000	Capacity: 54,907

A Coruña Madrid Santiago 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

28 July 2001