1999 FIFA Confederations Cup

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox international football competition The 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup was the fourth FIFA Confederations Cup, and the second organised by FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Mexico between 24 July and 4 August 1999.

The tournament was won by Mexico, who beat Brazil 4–3 in the final. Mexico became the first host nation to win the FIFA Confederations Cup. The competition was to originally be held in three stadiums, in three cities in the country. However, since the stadiums in Monterrey were sponsored by a competing beer company other than the official advertiser, the city was left out of the tournament altogether. The tournament was originally scheduled for 8–20 January 1999, but was rescheduled by FIFA on 17 November 1998 to accommodate the scheduling of the participating European teams.

The tournament was organized in two groups of four teams, in which two teams from both groups advanced to the semi-finals.

Venues

Matches were played at two venues: the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City served as the venue for matches in Group A, while the Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara hosted matches in Group B. Each of the venues also hosted one of the semi-finals; the final was played at the Azteca and the third place play-off was played at the Jalisco.

Mexico City	Template:Location map+	Guadalajara
Estadio Azteca		Estadio Jalisco
Capacity: 115,000		Capacity: 66,700
File:Estadio Azteca 07a.jpg		File:Estadio jalisco.jpg

Teams

Qualification

The tournament featured eight teams, representing the six continental confederations. Mexico qualified as both the host nation and the winners of the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, so the CONCACAF berth was given to the United States. France also qualified automatically as winners of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, but they declined to participate; World Cup runners-up Brazil took their place, which meant Bolivia replaced Brazil as the CONMEBOL representatives, having finished as runners-up in the 1997 Copa América. The other four places went to the winners of the most recent continental competitions: Germany (UEFA), Saudi Arabia (AFC), Egypt (CAF) and New Zealand (OFC).

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournamentTemplate:Efn
Template:Fb	CONCACAF	Hosts and 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners	Template:Hs Template:N/A	2 (1995, 1997)
Template:Fb	UEFA	UEFA Euro 1996 winners	Template:Hs 30 June 1996	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	AFC	1996 AFC Asian Cup winners	Template:Hs 21 December 1996	3 (1992, 1995, 1997)
Template:Fb	CONMEBOL	1997 Copa América runners-upTemplate:Efn	Template:Hs 29 June 1997	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	CONCACAF	1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup runners-upTemplate:Efn	Template:Hs 15 February 1998	1 (1992)
Template:Fb	CAF	1998 African Cup of Nations winners	Template:Hs 28 February 1998	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	CONMEBOL	1998 FIFA World Cup runners-upTemplate:Efn	Template:Hs 12 July 1998	1 (1997)
Template:Fb	OFC	1998 OFC Nations Cup winners	Template:Hs 4 October 1998	0 (debut)

Match officials

Africa

• Template:Flagicon Coffi Codjia

Asia

• Template:Flagicon Kim Young-joo

Europe

• Template:Flagicon Anders Frisk

North America, Central America and Caribbean

• Template:Flagicon Gilberto Alcalá
• Template:Flagicon Brian Hall

South America

• Template:Flagicon Ubaldo Aquino
• Template:Flagicon Óscar Ruiz

Group stage

All times CST (UTC−6).

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each). If still tied after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.

Bracket

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Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

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Final

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Statistics

Goalscorers

Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Marzouk Al-Otaibi and Ronaldinho are the top scorers in the tournament with six goals each. Ronaldinho won the Golden Shoe award by having more assists than Blanco and Al-Otaibi. In total, 55 goals were scored by 29 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

6 goals

• Template:Flagicon Ronaldinho
• Template:Flagicon Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Template:Flagicon Marzouk Al-Otaibi

4 goals

• Template:Flagicon Alex

3 goals

• Template:Flagicon Zé Roberto
• Template:Flagicon José Manuel Abundis

2 goals

• Template:Flagicon Rôni
• Template:Flagicon Samir Ibrahim
• Template:Flagicon Miguel Zepeda
• Template:Flagicon Brian McBride

1 goal

• Template:Flagicon Limberg Gutiérrez
• Template:Flagicon Renny Ribera
• Template:Flagicon Marcos Paulo
• Template:Flagicon João Carlos
• Template:Flagicon Serginho
• Template:Flagicon Abdel Sattar Sabry
• Template:Flagicon Yasser Radwan
• Template:Flagicon Ahmed Hassan
• Template:Flagicon Michael Preetz
• Template:Flagicon Lothar Matthäus
• Template:Flagicon Pável Pardo
• Template:Flagicon Francisco Palencia
• Template:Flagicon Chris Zoricich
• Template:Flagicon Nawaf Al-Temyat
• Template:Flagicon Ibrahim Al-Shahrani
• Template:Flagicon Jovan Kirovski
• Template:Flagicon Ben Olsen
• Template:Flagicon Joe-Max Moore
• Template:Flagicon Paul Bravo

Tournament ranking

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Awards

The following Confederations Cup awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: the Golden Boot (top scorer), and Golden Ball (best overall player).

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Template:Fbicon Ronaldinho	Template:Fbicon Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Template:Fbicon Marzouk Al-Otaibi
Golden Boot	Silver Boot	Bronze Boot
Template:Fbicon Ronaldinho	Template:Fbicon Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Template:Fbicon Marzouk Al-Otaibi
6 goals, 2 assists 376 minutes played	6 goals, 0 assists 465 minutes played	6 goals, 0 assists 315 minutes played
FIFA Fair Play Award
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External links

• FIFA Confederations Cup Mexico 1999, FIFA.com
• FIFA Technical Report (Part 1) and (Part 2)