2009 FIFA Club World Cup

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The 2009 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota for sponsorship reasons) was a football tournament played from 9 to 19 December 2009. It was the sixth FIFA Club World Cup and was played in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Defending champions Manchester United did not qualify as they lost the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final to Barcelona, who went on to win the Club World Cup for the first time. After coming from behind to beat Mexican side Atlante in the semi-finals, they did the same against the South American entrants, Estudiantes, in the final, winning 2–1 after extra time.^[1] Mauro Boselli put Estudiantes ahead in the 37th minute, but Pedro equalised with a minute left in normal time before Lionel Messi scored the winning goal five minutes into the second half of extra time.

This win made Barcelona the first Spanish side to win the Club World Cup, and it also meant that they had won six competitions in the 2009 calendar year, beating Liverpool's European record of five trophies won in 2001.

Host bids

On 13 August 2007, FIFA announced that an open tender for the bidding process for the 2009 tournament would be opened in November 2007.^[2] The FIFA Executive Committee appointed the United Arab Emirates as hosts for the 2009 and 2010 tournaments on 27 May 2008 during their meeting in Sydney, Australia.^[3]^[4] Australia, Japan and Portugal also placed bids to host the tournament, but Portugal later withdrew from the process.^[5]

Qualified teams

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Team	Confederation	Qualification	Participation
Entering in the semi-finals
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Template:Fbaicon Estudiantes	CONMEBOL	Winners of the 2009 Copa Libertadores	Debut
Entering in the quarter-finals
Template:Fbaicon Atlante	CONCACAF	Winners of the 2008–09 CONCACAF Champions League	Debut
Template:Fbaicon Pohang Steelers	AFC	Winners of the 2009 AFC Champions League	Debut
Template:Fbaicon TP Mazembe	CAF	Winners of the 2009 CAF Champions League	Debut
Entering in the play-off for quarter-finals
Template:Fbaicon Al-Ahli	AFC (host)	Winners of the 2008–09 UAE Pro-League	Debut
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Venues

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Closing ceremony of the tournament

All of the matches at the tournament were played in Abu Dhabi, with three matches at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium and five at the Zayed Sports City Stadium, including the final and the play-offs for third and fifth place.^[6]

Abu Dhabi
Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium	Zayed Sports City Stadium
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Capacity: 42,056	Capacity: 50,000
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Match ball

The Adidas Jabulani, the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, served as the match ball of the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.

Match officials

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees
AFC	Matthew Breeze (Australia)	Jason Power (Australia) Benjamin Wilson (Australia)
AFC	Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)	Rafael Ilyasov (Uzbekistan) Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)
CAF	Coffi Codjia (Benin)	Alexis Fassinou (Benin) Desire Gahungu (Burundi)
CONCACAF	Benito Archundia (Mexico)	Marvin Torrentera (Mexico) Hector Vergara (Canada)
CONMEBOL	Carlos Simon (Brazil)	Roberto Braatz (Brazil) Altemir Hausmann (Brazil)
OFC	Peter O'Leary (New Zealand)	Brent Best (New Zealand) Matthew Taro (Solomon Islands)
UEFA	Roberto Rosetti (Italy)	Stefano Ayroldi (Italy) Cristiano Copelli (Italy)

Squads

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Matches

The official draw was held in Abu Dhabi on 12 November 2009 to decide the opposition to be faced by the three teams that begin the tournament at the quarter-final stage.^[7]

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All times are local, GST (UTC+4).