The 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup was the first Confederations Cup to be organized by FIFA. The tournament had previously been played in 1992 and 1995 as the King Fahd Cup. This edition of the tournament was hosted by Saudi Arabia (as with the previous editions) in December 1997, and was the first to feature representatives from all of the FIFA confederations.
It was won by Brazil, who, in a rematch of their goalless group stage encounter, beat Australia 6–0 in the final. After winning the 1997 tournament along with the 1994 FIFA World Cup and 1997 Copa América, Brazil became the first country to be the reigning champion of both major FIFA tournaments (the World Cup and the Confederations Cup), and champion of their respective confederation. This feat has since been accomplished once by France, victorious in the 1998 World Cup, UEFA Euro 2000, and the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup. Brazil repeated this feat again in 2005.
Qualified teams
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!Team
!Confederation
!Qualification method
!Date qualification secured
!Participation no.
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|AFC
|Hosts and 1996 AFC Asian Cup winners
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|align=center|3rd
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|CONMEBOL
|1994 FIFA World Cup winners
|align=center|17 July 1994
|align=center|1st
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|CONMEBOL
|1995 Copa América winners
|align=center|22 July 1995
|align=center|1st
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|CONCACAF
|1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners
|align=center|20 January 1996
|align=center|2nd
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|CAF
|1996 African Cup of Nations winners
|align=center|3 February 1996
|align=center|1st
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|UEFA
|UEFA Euro 1996 runners-up
|align=center|30 June 1996
|align=center|1st
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|OFC
|1996 OFC Nations Cup winners
|align=center|1 November 1996
|align=center|1st
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|AFC
|1996 AFC Asian Cup runners-up
|align=center|21 December 1996
|align=center|1st
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Venue
All matches were played in 67,000-seat King Fahd International Stadium in the city of Riyadh.
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!Riyadh
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|King Fahd International Stadium
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|Capacity: 67,000
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Match referees
;Africa
- Lucien Bouchardeau
- Ian McLeod
;Asia
- Saad Mane
- Pirom Un-Prasert
;Europe
- Nikolai Levnikov
;North America, Central America and Caribbean
- Ramesh Ramdhan
;South America
- Javier Castrilli
- René Ortubé
Squads
Group stage
300px|thumb|1997 FIFA Confederations Cup participating teams
Group A
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!width="175"|Team
!width="20"|Pld
!width="20"|W
!width="20"|D
!width="20"|L
!width="20"|GF
!width="20"|GA
!width="20"|GD
!width="20"|Pts
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|align=left|
|3||2||1||0||6||2||+4||7
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|align=left|
|3||1||1||1||3||2||+1||4
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|align=left|
|3||1||0||2||8||6||+2||3
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|align=left| (H)
|3||1||0||2||1||8||−7||3
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(H) Hosts
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Group B
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!width="175"|Team
!width="20"|Pld
!width="20"|W
!width="20"|D
!width="20"|L
!width="20"|GF
!width="20"|GA
!width="20"|GD
!width="20"|Pts
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|align=left|
|3||3||0||0||8||4||+4||9
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|align=left|
|3||1||1||1||9||5||+4||4
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|align=left|
|3||1||0||2||2||8||−6||3
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|align=left|
|3||0||1||2||5||7||−2||1
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Knockout stage
Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Awards
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!Golden Ball
!Golden Shoe
!FIFA Fair Play Trophy
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|align=center| Denílson
|align=center| Romário
|rowspan="5" align=center|
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!Silver Ball
!Silver Shoe
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|align=center| Romário
|align=center| Vladimír Šmicer
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!Bronze Ball
!Bronze Shoe
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|align=center| Vladimír Šmicer
|align=center| Ronaldo
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Statistics
Goalscorers
Romário received the Golden Shoe award for scoring seven goals. In total, 52 goals were scored by 32 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
;7 goals
- Romário
;5 goals
- Vladimír Šmicer
;4 goals
- Ronaldo
;3 goals
- Cuauhtémoc Blanco
;2 goals
- Pavel Nedvěd
- Francisco Palencia
- Helman Mkhalele
- Nicolás Olivera
- Darío Silva
;1 goal
- Mark Viduka
- John Aloisi
- Damian Mori
- Harry Kewell
- César Sampaio
- Denílson
- Júnior Baiano
- Horst Siegl
- Edvard Lasota
- Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
- Luis Hernández
- Braulio Luna
- Ramón Ramírez
- Pollen Ndlanya
- Lucas Radebe
- Brendan Augustine
- Hassan Mubarak
- Adnan Al Talyani
- Antonio Pacheco
- Marcelo Zalayeta
- Christian Callejas
- Álvaro Recoba
;Own goal
- Mohamed Obaid (against Czech Republic)
Tournament ranking
Team of the Tournament
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!Goalkeeper
!Defenders
!Midfielders
!Forwards
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Mohamed Al-Deayea
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Michal Horňák<br />
Mark Fish<br />
Júnior Baiano<br />
David Nyathi
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Ned Zelic<br />
Dunga<br />
Roberto Carlos<br />
Nicolás Olivera
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Vladimír Šmicer<br />
Romário
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See also
- 1997 Tournoi de France
Notes
References
External links
- FIFA Confederations Cup Saudi Arabia 1997, FIFA.com
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3)