From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The FIFA Club World Cup
is a competition in the sport of Club
football
. The
Federation Internationale de Football Association
(FIFA) organizes the World Cup every one year. The tournament officially assigns the world title.
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It is normally contested between the Champions of each continent, and the champion of the host country.
Real Madrid
is the most successful team in the tournament, with 5 titles.
List of champions and statistics
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See also:
Clubs of football world champions
Pre Fifa Club World Cup Competition
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- Intercontinental Cup
(1960-2004); in 2017 FIFA officially recognized all of them as official
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club world champions (
de jure
) with the same status to the FIFA Club World Cup winners or world champions FIFA.
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In synthesis FIFA has two types of world champions, those deriving from the Intercontinental Cup and those deriving from the Club World Cup, the two competitions confer the same title.
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- ↑
"FIFA Club World Championship TOYOTA Cup 2005"
(PDF)
.
FIFA Report 2005
.
Zurich
: Federation Internationale de Football Association: 5, 19. December 2005. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2017-08-08
. Retrieved
2018-01-31
.
- ↑
"FIFA Club World Cup 2017"
(PDF)
.
FIFA Report 2017
.
Zurich
: Federation Internationale de Football Association: 15, 40, 41, 42. December 2017. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2017-12-30
. Retrieved
2018-01-31
.
- ↑
"FIFA Club World Cup 2017"
(PDF)
.
FIFA Regulation CWC 2017 Page 37
.
Zurich
: Federation Internationale de Football Association. December 2017. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2017-12-15
. Retrieved
2018-01-31
.
- ↑
"Official (
plural
officials), from the Latin
offici?lis.
1. The official word is also used to refer to what is recognized or derives from an authority. cfr.
dictionary.com.
"Official, definition"
.
2. Approved by the government or someone in power. cfr.
dictionary.cambridge.org.
"official"
.
It is synonymous with legal, legitimate, approved. cfr.
thesaurus.com.
"Synonyms for official"
.
- ↑
“While it does not promote the statistical unification of tournaments, that is, has not absorbed to the Intercontinental Cup (merged with FIFA Club World Cup in 2005), the title was conferred by an official document from the world federation so it is legally a FIFA world title" cfr.
"FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019™"
(PDF)
. p. 12.
cfr.
- ↑
FIFA Council approves key organisational elements of the FIFA World Cup
Archived
2017-10-27 at the
Wayback Machine
- Recognition of all European and South American teams that won the Intercontinental Cup ? played between 1960 and 2004 ? as club world champions./ www.fifa.com
- ↑
"FIFA Club World Cup 2017"
(PDF)
.
FIFA Report 2017
.
Zurich
: Federation Internationale de Football Association: 15, 40, 41, 42. December 2017. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2017-12-30
. Retrieved
2018-01-31
.
- ↑
“While it does not promote the statistical unification of tournaments, that is, has not absorbed to the Intercontinental Cup, FIFA is the only organization with worldwide jurisdiction over continental confederations and, then, the only one that can confer a title on that level, indeed the title was assigned by FIFA and therefore, the title awarded by the same world federation to the winners of the Intercontinental Cup is legally a FIFA world title. cfr.
"FIFA Statutes, April 2016 edition"
(PDF)
. p. 19.
cfr.
- ↑
"FIFA Club World Cup 2017"
(PDF)
.
FIFA Report 2017
.
Zurich
: Federation Internationale de Football Association: 15, 40, 41, 42. December 2017. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2017-12-30
. Retrieved
2018-01-31
.