2012 FIFA Club World Cup
The 2012 FIFA Club World Cup was a football tournament that was played from 6 to 16 December 2012. It was the ninth edition of the FIFA [Club World Cup], a FIFA-organised tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations as well as the host nation's league champions. The tournament was hosted by Japan.
Defending champions Barcelona did not qualify as they were eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011–12 [UEFA Champions League] by eventual champions Chelsea.
Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians] won the title for the second time, winning 1–0 in the semi-finals against Al Ahly before beating Chelsea by the same margin in the 2012 [FIFA Club World Cup Final|final].
Host bids
The FIFA Executive Committee appointed Japan as hosts for the 2011 and 2012 tournaments on 27 May 2008 during their meeting in Sydney, Australia.Match officials
The appointed referees are:| Confederation | Referee | Assistant referees |
| AFC | Nawaf Shukralla | Ebrahim Saleh Yaser Tulefat |
| AFC | Alireza Faghani ' | Hassan Kamranifar ' Reza Sokhandan |
| CAF | Djamel Haimoudi | Abdelhak Etchiali Redouane Achik |
| CONCACAF | Marco Antonio Rodríguez | Marvin Torrentera Marcos Quintero |
| CONMEBOL | Carlos Vera | Christian Lescano Byron Romero |
| OFC | Peter O'Leary | Mark Rule Ravinesh Kumar |
| UEFA | Cüneyt Çakır | Bahattin Duran Tarık Ongun |
Squads
Each team submitted a squad of 23 players, three of them goalkeepers. The squads were announced on 29 November 2012.Venues
The venues for the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup were Yokohama and Toyota.| Toyota | Yokohama | |
| Toyota Stadium (Japan) | Nissan Stadium (Yokohama) | |
| Capacity: 45,000 | Capacity: 72,327 | |
Goal-line technology
The 2012 FIFA Club World Cup was the first FIFA tournament to use goal-line technology following its approval by the International [Football Association Board] in July 2012. The two systems approved by FIFA, GoalRef and Hawk-Eye, were used in the two stadiums.Matches
The draw for the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup was held at the FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, on 24 September 2012 at 11:30 CEST. The draw decided the "positions" in the bracket for the three representatives which entered the quarter-finals.If a match was tied after normal playing time:
- For elimination matches, extra time was played. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out was held to determine the winner.
- For the matches for fifth place and third place, no extra time was played, and a penalty shoot-out was held to determine the winner.
''All times Japan Standard Time.''