2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

Кубок конфедераций 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Russia
Dates	17 June – 2 July
Teams	8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (1st title)
Runner-up	Chile
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	43 (2.69 per match)
Attendance	628,304 (39,269 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Leon Goretzka Lars Stindl Timo Werner (3 goals each)
Best player	Julian Draxler
Best goalkeeper	Claudio Bravo
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The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup was the 10th edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup, a quadrennial international men's football tournament organised by FIFA. It was held in Russia from 17 June to 2 July 2017 as a prelude to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Russia was announced as the host on 2 December 2010 after the country was awarded the hosting rights of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The matches were played in four different stadiums across four cities: Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and Sochi. It was the first time Russia has hosted the tournament, and the third time the Confederations Cup has been held within the European continent. As hosts, Russia automatically qualified for the tournament. The six winners of the FIFA confederation championships as well as the 2014 FIFA World Cup champions, Germany, also qualified.

The final tournament was played in two stages: a group stage and a latter knockout stage. In the group stage each team will play three games in a group of four, with the winners and runners-up from each group advancing to the knockout stage. In the knockout stage the four teams competed in single-elimination matches, beginning with the semi-finals and ending with the final match of the tournament. A third-place match was also be played between the two losing teams of the semi-finals.

The defending champions, Brazil, who won the previous three Confederation Cups (2005, 2009, 2013) failed to qualify following their loss on penalties to Paraguay in the quarter-finals of the 2015 Copa América. 2015 AFC Asian Cup winners Australia also became the first team to qualify from multiple confederations, having previously represented the OFC in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

Qualification

The eight competing teams were the host nation, the reigning FIFA World Cup champions, and the six holders of the FIFA confederation championships. If any team qualified for multiple berths (such as, if the World Cup champions also won their continental championship), the next best-placed team from their continental championship qualifies.

After Russia secured a spot in the tournament as hosts, Germany were the first team to qualify via competition, after winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The final match saw the Germans clinch the country's fourth world title through a 1–0 extra-time win to Argentina. Australia were the next team to qualify after beating South Korea 1–2 in extra-time in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final. The victory marked Australia's first Asian Cup win since their move from the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in 2006. It was also the first time a team had become champions of two confederations, following Australia's four OFC Nations Cup titles. Chile were the fourth team to secure a spot at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup after defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final on a penalty shootout after a goalless draw.

As 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions Mexico's qualifying path saw them face 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions United States in the 2015 CONCACAF Cup play-off match. The new format, in which the two most recent CONCACAF Gold Cup winners compete to decide the representative team of CONCACAF, was won by the Mexicans 3–2. New Zealand were the sixth team to qualify for the tournament after defeating Papua New Guinea 4–2 in a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extra-time in the 2016 OFC Nations Cup Final.

Portugal were the seventh team to qualify, after defeating host nation France 1–0 after extra time, in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final. The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winning team, Cameroon, took the eighth and final spot with their 2–1 win against Egypt in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Final. This was the first time in FIFA Confederations Cup history that three national teams from any single confederation (Russia, Germany and Portugal from UEFA) participated in the tournament.

Qualified teams

Team	Confederation	Qualification method	Date of qualification secured	Appearance
Russia	UEFA	2018 FIFA World Cup hosts	12 December 2010	0 (debut)
Germany	UEFA	2014 FIFA World Cup winners	213 July 2014	2 (1999, 2005)
Australia	AFC	2015 AFC Asian Cup winners	331 January 2015	3 (1997, 2001, 2005)
Chile	CONMEBOL	2015 Copa América winners	44 July 2015	0 (debut)
Mexico	CONCACAF	2015 CONCACAF Cup winners	510 October 2015	6 (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2013)
New Zealand	OFC	2016 OFC Nations Cup winners	611 June 2016	3 (1999, 2003, 2009)
Portugal	UEFA	UEFA Euro 2016 winners	7 10 July 2016	0 (debut)
Cameroon	CAF	2017 Africa Cup of Nations winners	8 5 February 2017	2 (2001, 2003)

Venues

Four cities served as the venues for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Saint Petersburg	Moscow
Zenit Arena	Otkrytie Arena
Capacity: 66,881 (new stadium)	Capacity: 44,829
Kazan	Sochi
Kazan Arena	Fisht Olympic Stadium
Capacity: 45,015	Capacity: 47,659

All four venues will also be among the 12 used for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Schedule

The full schedule was announced by FIFA on 24 July 2015 (without kick-off times, which were confirmed later). Russia was placed in position A1 in the group stage and play in the opening match against New Zealand at the Zenit Arena in Saint Petersburg on 17 June. The distribution of the knockout stage matches are as follows:

• The Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg hosted the final on 2 July.
• The Kazan Arena in Kazan hosted the first semi-final on 28 June.
• The Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi hosted the second semi-final on 29 June.
• The Otkrytiye Arena in Moscow hosted the third place match on 2 July.

The draw was held on 26 November 2016 in Kazan.

All times are local Moscow time (UTC+3)

Draw

The draw took place on 26 November 2016, 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Tennis Academy in Kazan.

For the draw, the eight teams were allocated to two pots. Pot 1 contained the hosts Russia and the three highest-ranked teams in the November 2016 edition of the FIFA World Rankings (shown in parentheses below): Germany, Chile, and Portugal. Pot 2 contained the remaining four teams: Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and the winners of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, and regardless of their identity, could not be among the three highest-ranked participating teams), which was won by Cameroon on 5 February 2017 to complete the line-up.

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four, with each group containing two teams from Pot 1 and two teams from Pot 2. During the draw procedure, teams were drawn into alternating groups (Group A, then Group B, repeating), and assigned a position within the group by drawing another ball. As hosts, Russia were automatically assigned to Position A1 in the draw. Since there were three teams from Europe, one of the two groups was certain to contain two teams from the same confederation (Russia and Portugal), the first time this happened in a FIFA Confederations Cup.

Pot 1	Pot 2
Russia (55; hosts) Germany (3) Chile (4) Portugal (8)	Mexico (18) Australia (48) Cameroon (65) New Zealand (110)

Match officials

A total of 9 refereeing trios (a referee and two assistant referees), 1 support referee, and 8 video assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.

Confederation	Referee	Assistant referees	Support referee	Video assistant referee
AFC	Fahad Al-Mirdasi	Abdullah Al-Shalawi Mohammed Al-Abakry	–	Ravshan Irmatov
	Alireza Faghani	Reza Sokhandan Mohammadreza Mansouri
CAF	Bakary Gassama	Jean-Claude Birumushahu Marwa Range	–	Malang Diedhiou
CONCACAF	Mark Geiger	Joe Fletcher Charles Justin Morgante	–	Jair Marrufo
CONMEBOL	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana Juan Pablo Belatti	–	Enrique Cáceres Sandro Ricci
	Wilmar Roldán	Alexander Guzman Cristian De La Cruz
OFC	–	–	Abdelkader Zitouni	–
UEFA	Milorad Mažić	Milovan Ristić Dalibor Đurđević	–	Artur Soares Dias Ovidiu Hațegan Clément Turpin
	Gianluca Rocchi	Elenito Di Liberatore Mauro Tonolini
	Damir Skomina	Jure Praprotnik Robert Vukan

Squads

Main article: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup squads

Each team had to first name a preliminary squad of 30 players. From the preliminary squad, the team had to name a final squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad could be replaced due to serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match, where the replacement players did not need to be in the preliminary squad. The official squads were announced by FIFA on 8 June 2017.

Group stage

The group stage of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup took place from 17–25 June 2017. After each team played three games, the winners and runners-up from each group advancing to the knockout stage.

Tiebreaking criteria for group stage

The teams will be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: Goal difference in all matches Goal scored in all matches Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned Drawing of lots

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Portugal (Q)	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7	Advance to knockout phase
Mexico (Q)	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
Russia (E)	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
New Zealand (E)	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

17 June 2017 (2017-06-17) 18:00	Russia	2–0	New Zealand	Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Attendance: 50,251 Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)
	Boxall  31' (o.g.) Smolov  69'	Report

18 June 2017 (2017-06-18) 18:00	Portugal	2–2	Mexico	Kazan Arena, Kazan Attendance: 34,372 Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)
	Quaresma  34' Cédric  86'	Report	Hernández  42' Moreno  90+1'

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21 June 2017 (2017-06-21) 18:00	Russia	0–1	Portugal	Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow Attendance: 42,759 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)
		Report	Ronaldo  8'

21 June 2017 (2017-06-21) 21:00	Mexico	2–1	New Zealand	Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Attendance: 25,133 Referee: Bakary Gassama (Gambia)
	Jiménez  54' Peralta  72'	Report	Wood  42'

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24 June 2017 (2017-06-24) 18:00	Mexico	2–1	Russia	Kazan Arena, Kazan Attendance: 41,585 Referee: Fahad Al-Mirdasi (Saudi Arabia)
	Araujo  30' Lozano  52'	Report	Samedov  25'

24 June 2017 (2017-06-24) 18:00	New Zealand	0–4	Portugal	Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Attendance: 56,290 Referee: Mark Geiger (United States)
		Report	Ronaldo  33' (pen.) B. Silva  37' A. Silva  80' Nani  90+1'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Germany	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7	Advance to knockout phase
Chile	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
Australia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2
Cameroon	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

18 June 2017 (2017-06-18) 21:00	Cameroon	0–2	Chile	Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow Attendance: 33,492 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
		Report	Vidal  81' Vargas  90+1'

19 June 2017 (2017-06-19) 18:00	Australia	2–3	Germany	Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Attendance: 28,605 Referee: Mark Geiger (United States
	Rogic  41' Juric  56'	Report	Stindl  5' Draxler  44' (pen.) Goretzka  48'

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22 June 2017 (2017-06-22) 18:00	Cameroon	1–1	Australia	Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Attendance: 35,021 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
	Zambo Anguissa  45+1'	Report	Milligan  60' (pen.)

22 June 2017 (2017-06-22) 21:00	Germany	1–1	Chile	Kazan Arena, Kazan Attendance: 38,222 Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran)
	Stindl  41'	Report	Sánchez  6'

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25 June 2017 (2017-06-25) 18:00	Germany	3–1	Cameroon	Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Attendance: 30,230 Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)
	Demirbay  48' Werner  66', 81'	Report	Aboubakar  78'

25 June 2017 (2017-06-25) 18:00	Chile	1–1	Australia	Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow Attendance: 33,639 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)
	Rodríguez  67'	Report	Troisi  42'

Knockout stage

Main article: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage

In all matches in the knockout stage, if the score was level at the end of 90 minutes, two 15-minute periods of extra time was played. If the score was still level after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 June — Kazan
	Portugal	0 (0)
	Chile (p)	0 (3)
					2 July — Saint Petersburg
					Chile	0
					Germany	1
					Third place
	29 June — Sochi			2 July — Moscow
	Germany	4		Portugal (a.e.t.)	2
	Mexico	1			Mexico	1

Semi-finals

28 June 2017 (2017-06-28) 21:00	Portugal	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Chile	Kazan Arena, Kazan Attendance: 40,855 Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran)
		Report
		Penalties
	Quaresma Moutinho Nani	0–3	Vidal Aránguiz Sánchez

29 June 2017 (2017-06-29) 21:00	Germany	4–1	Mexico	Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Attendance: 37,923 Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)
	Goretzka  6', 8' Werner  59' Younes  90+1'	Report	Fabián  89'

Third place match

2 July 2017 (2017-07-02) 15:00	Portugal	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Mexico	Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow Attendance: 42,659 Referee: Fahad Al-Mirdasi (Saudi Arabia)
	Pepe  90+1' Adrien  104' (pen.)	Report	Neto  54' (o.g.)

Final

Main article: 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Final

2 July 2017 (2017-07-02) 21:00 MSK	Chile	0–1	Germany	Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Attendance: 57,268 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
		Report	Stindl  20'

Goalscorers

There have been 34 goals scored in 13 matches, for an average of 2.62 goals per match.

Note: Players marked in bold are still active in the competition.

3 goals

• Leon Goretzka
• Timo Werner

2 goals

• Lars Stindl
• Cristiano Ronaldo

1 goal

• Tomi Juric
• Mark Milligan
• Tom Rogic
• James Troisi
• Vincent Aboubakar
• André-Frank Zambo Anguissa
• Martín Rodríguez
• Alexis Sánchez
• Eduardo Vargas
• Arturo Vidal
• Kerem Demirbay
• Julian Draxler
• Amin Younes
• Néstor Araujo
• Marco Fabián
• Javier Hernández
• Raúl Jiménez
• Hirving Lozano
• Héctor Moreno
• Oribe Peralta
• Chris Wood
• Cédric
• Nani
• Ricardo Quaresma
• André Silva
• Bernardo Silva
• Aleksandr Samedov
• Fyodor Smolov

1 own goal

• Michael Boxall (against Russia)

Source: FIFA

Prize money

Based on final position, teams will receive prize money from FIFA.

Competition stage	Final position	Prize money (US dollars)
Final	Winner	$5,000,000
	Runner-up	$4,500,000
Match for third place	Third place	$3,500,000
	Fourth place	$3,000,000
Group stage	Fifth to eighth place	$2,000,000

Ticketing

Tickets were distributed in four stages: pre-sale for VISA owners, random draw, first come first served and last minute sales.

Sponsorship

FIFA partners	FIFA World Cup sponsors	European supporters
Adidas Coca-Cola Gazprom Hyundai–Kia Qatar Airways VISA Wanda Group	Anheuser-Busch InBev Hisense McDonald's Vivo	Alfa-Bank

External links

• FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA.com
• 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, FIFA.com