The 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup football tournament was the sixth FIFA Confederations Cup, held in June 2003. Hosts France retained the title they had won in 2001, but the tournament was overshadowed by the death of Cameroonian midfielder Marc-Vivien Foé, who died of heart failure in his side's semi-final against Colombia. Foé's death united the French and Cameroonian teams in the final match, which was played even though players from both sides had explicitly stated that the match should not be played out of respect for Foé. France went on to win with a golden goal from Thierry Henry.
At the presentation of medals and trophies, two Cameroon players held a large photo of Foé and a runner-up medal was hung to the edge of the photo. When French captain Marcel Desailly was presented with the Confederations Cup, which he held in unison with Cameroon captain Rigobert Song. Foé finished third in media voting for player of the tournament and was posthumously awarded the Bronze Ball at its conclusion.
This was the last Confederations Cup that did not serve as a warm-up event to the FIFA World Cup.
Qualified teams
300px|thumb|2003 FIFA Confederations Cup participating teams<br><span style="color:red">Red</span> – Participated in Group A<br><span style="color:blue">Blue</span> – Participated in Group B
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!Team
!Confederation
!Qualification method
!Date qualification secured
!Participation no.
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|UEFA
|UEFA Euro 2000 winners<br />Hosts
|align=center|2 July 2000<br />24 September 2002
|align=center|2nd
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|CONMEBOL
|2002 FIFA World Cup winners
|align=center|30 June 2002
|align=center|4th
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|AFC
|2000 AFC Asian Cup winners
|align=center|29 October 2000
|align=center|3rd
|-
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|CONMEBOL
|2001 Copa América winners
|align=center|29 July 2001
|align=center|1st
|-
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|CONCACAF
|2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners
|align=center|2 February 2002
|align=center|3rd
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|CAF
|2002 African Cup of Nations winners
|align=center|10 February 2002
|align=center|2nd
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|UEFA
|2002 FIFA World Cup third place<sup>1</sup>
|align=center|22 October 2002
|align=center|1st
|-
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|OFC
|2002 OFC Nations Cup winners
|align=center|14 July 2002
|align=center|2nd
|}
<sup>1</sup>Italy, the UEFA Euro 2000 runners-up, declined to take part as did Germany, the 2002 FIFA World Cup runners-up. So did Spain, who were ranked second in the FIFA World Rankings at the time. They were replaced by Turkey, who came third in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
The host was selected on 24 September 2002, during a meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee.
Venues
The matches were played in:
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!Paris
!Lyon
!Saint-Étienne
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|Stade de France
|Stade de Gerland
|Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
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|
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|-
| Capacity: 80,000
| Capacity: 41,200
| Capacity: 36,000
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|180x180px
|180x180px
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! colspan="3" |
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Match officials
Africa
- Coffi Codjia (Benin)
Asia
- Masoud Moradi (Iran)
Europe
- Lucílio Batista (Portugal)
- Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
- Markus Merk (Germany)
North America, Central America and Caribbean
- Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
Oceania
- Mark Shield (Australia)
South America
- Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)
- Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)
Squads
Group stage
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||3||0||0||8||1||+7||9
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|align=left|
|3||2||0||1||4||2||+2||6
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|align=left|
|3||1||0||2||4||3||+1||3
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|align=left|
|3||0||0||3||1||11||−10||0
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Group B
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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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||2||1||0||2||0||+2||7
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|align=left|
|3||1||1||1||4||4||0||4
|-
|align=left|
|3||1||1||1||3||3||0||4
|-
|align=left|
|3||0||1||2||1||3||−2||1
|}
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Knockout stage
Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Awards
Golden Ball
The Golden Ball award is given to the tournament's best player, as voted by the media.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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! Awards
! Golden Ball
! Silver Ball
! Bronze Ball
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! Players
| Thierry Henry || Tuncay Şanlı || Marc-Vivien Foé
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! Team
| || ||
|-
! Votes
| 28% || 15% || 7%
|}
Golden Shoe
The Golden Shoe award is given to the tournament's top goalscorer.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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!Awards
!Golden Shoe
!Silver Shoe
!Bronze Shoe
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! Players
| Thierry Henry || Tuncay Şanlı || Shunsuke Nakamura
|-
! Team
| || ||
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! Goals
| 4 || 3 || 3
|}
FIFA Fair Play Award
FIFA presents the Fair Play Award to the team with the best fair play record, according to a points system and criteria established by the FIFA Fair Play Committee.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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!colspan="2"|FIFA Fair Play Award
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!Team
|
|-
!Total
|895
|-
!Matches played
|3
|-
!Maximum
|1,000
|}
Statistics
Goalscorers
Thierry Henry received the Golden Shoe award for scoring four goals. In total, 37 goals were scored by 22 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
;4 goals
- Thierry Henry
;3 goals
- Giovanni Hernández
- Robert Pires
- Shunsuke Nakamura
- Tuncay Şanlı
- Okan Yılmaz
;2 goals
- Adriano
- Gökdeniz Karadeniz
;1 goal
- Alex
- Samuel Eto'o
- Geremi
- Pius Ndiefi
- Jorge López
- Mario Yepes
- Djibril Cissé
- Ludovic Giuly
- Sidney Govou
- Olivier Kapo
- Sylvain Wiltord
- Hidetoshi Nakata
- Raf de Gregorio
- DaMarcus Beasley
Tournament ranking
References
External links
- FIFA Confederations Cup France 2003, FIFA.com
- 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup Official Site (Archived)
- FIFA Technical Report (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3) (Archived)
- FIFA Confederations Cup France 2003 Regulations