2005 FIFA Confederations Cup

The 2005 Confederations Cup football tournament was held in Germany, between June 15 and June 29, 2005.

Participating teams

Germany (host)
Brazil (winner of the 2002 FIFA World Cup)
Argentina¹ (runner-up to Brazil in the 2004 Copa América)
Greece (winner of Template:Ec2)
Mexico (winner of the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup)
Tunisia (winner of the 2004 African Nations Cup)
Japan (winner of the 2004 Asian Cup)
Australia (winner of the 2004 Oceania Nations Cup)

¹Argentina was awarded a spot in the competition because Brazil had won both the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2004 Copa América. Since both competitions award their winners a spot in the Confederations Cup, the runner-up in the World Cup would be called to play. Said runner-up, however, was Germany, which already had a spot as hosts of the 2005 Confederations Cup. Argentina, as the runner-up in the Copa América, was then granted a place in the 2005 edition of the tournament.

Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Frankfurt	Commerzbank-Arena	48,132
Cologne	RheinEnergieStadion	46,120
Hanover	AWD-Arena	44,652
Leipzig	Zentralstadion	44,199
Nuremberg	easyCredit-Stadion	41,926

All 5 venues will be reused for the 2006 World Cup.

Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament see, 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup (squads)

Group Stage

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Template:GERf	7	3	2	1	0	9	5
Template:ARGf	7	3	2	1	0	8	5
Template:TUNf	3	3	1	0	2	3	5
Template:AUSf	0	3	0	0	3	5	10

All times given in local time [UTC/GMT+2]


June 15, 2005
Argentina	2 – 1	Tunisia	18:00	Cologne
Juan Román Riquelme pen 33 Javier Saviola 57		Haykel Gmamdia pen 73

Germany	4 – 3	Australia	20:45	Frankfurt
Kevin Kurányi 17 Per Mertesacker 23 Michael Ballack pen 60 Lukas Podolski 88		Josip Skoko 21 John Aloisi 31, 90

June 18, 2005
Germany	3 – 0	Tunisia	18:00	Cologne
Michael Ballack (pen) 74 Bastian Schweinsteiger 80 Mike Hanke 89

Australia	2 – 4	Argentina	20:45	Nuremberg
John Aloisi pen 61, 70		Lucho Figueroa 12, 54, 89 Juan Román Riquelme pen 31

June 21, 2005
Australia	0 – 2	Tunisia	20:45	Leipzig
		Francileudo dos Santos 26, 70

Argentina	2 – 2	Germany	20:45	Nuremberg
Juan Román Riquelme 33 Esteban Cambiasso 74		Kevin Kurányi 29 Gerald Asamoah 51

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Template:MEXf	7	3	2	1	0	3	1
Template:BRAf	4	3	1	1	1	5	3
Template:JPNf	4	3	1	1	1	4	4
Template:GREf	1	3	0	1	2	0	4


June 16, 2005
Japan	1 – 2	Mexico	18:00	Hanover
Atsushi Yanagisawa 12		Antonio Naelson 39 Francisco Fonseca 64

Brazil	3 – 0	Greece	20:45	Leipzig
Adriano 41 Robinho 46 Juninho 81

June 19, 2005
Mexico	1 – 0	Brazil	18:00	Hanover
Jared Borgetti 59

Greece	0 – 1	Japan	20:45	Frankfurt
		Masashi Oguro 76

June 22, 2005
Greece	0 – 0	Mexico	20:45	Frankfurt
Japan	2 – 2	Brazil	20:45	Cologne
Shunsuke Nakamura 27 Masashi Oguro 88		Robinho 10 Ronaldinho 32

Semi-finals


June 25, 2005
Germany	2 – 3	Brazil	18:00	Nuremberg
Lukas Podolski 23 Michael Ballack pen 45		Adriano 21, 76 Ronaldinho pen 43

June 26, 2005
Mexico	1 – 1 5 – 6 (shootout)	Argentina	18:00	Hanover
Carlos Salcido 104		Lucho Figueroa 110

Third Place Playoff


June 29, 2005
Germany	4 – 3 aet	Mexico	17:45	Leipzig
Lukas Podolski 37 Bastian Schweinsteiger 41 Robert Huth 79 Michael Ballack 97		Francisco Fonseca 40 Jared Borgetti 58, 85