2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

2017 FIFA Confederations Cup
Кубок конфедераций 2017
Tournament details
Host country Russia
Dates 17 June – 2 July 2017
Teams 8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities)
2017 FIFA Confederations Cup participating teams

The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup will be the 10th FIFA Confederations Cup, a quadrennial international men's football tournament organised by FIFA. It will be held in Russia, from 17 June to 2 July 2017, as a prelude to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[1]

Russia was announced as the host on 2 December 2010 after the country was awarded the hosting rights of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[2] The matches will be played in four different stadiums across four cities: Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, and Sochi. It will be the first time Russia hosts the tournament, and the third time the Confederations Cup is held in the European continent. As hosts, the Russia national football team qualified automatically for the tournament; they will be joined by the six winners of the FIFA confederation championships and the 2014 FIFA World Cup champions, Germany.

The final tournament will be 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 will compete in single-elimination matches, beginning with the semi-finals and ending with the final match of the tournament. A third-place match will also be played between the two losing semi-finalist teams.

The defending champions, Brazil, who won the previous three Confederation Cups (2005, 2009, 2013), failed to qualify (for the first time since 1995) following their loss on penalties to Paraguay in the quarter-finals of the 2015 Copa América. 2015 AFC Asian Cup winners Australia became the first team to qualify from multiple confederations, having previously represented the OFC in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

Qualification

The eight competing teams will be the host nation, the reigning FIFA World Cup champions, and the six holders of the FIFA confederation championships. If any team qualifies 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 against Argentina. Australia were the next team to qualify after beating South Korea 2–1 after extra time, in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final. This 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 4–1 on a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extra time, in the 2015 Copa América Final.

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 after extra time. New Zealand were the sixth team to qualify for the tournament after defeating Papua New Guinea 4–2 on 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 will take the eighth and final spot. This will be the first time in FIFA Confederations Cup history that three national teams from any single confederation (Russia, Germany and Portugal from UEFA) will participate in the tournament.

Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for the tournament.

Country Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Russia UEFA 2018 FIFA World Cup hosts 1 2 December 2010 0 (debut)
 Germany UEFA 2014 FIFA World Cup winners 2 13 July 2014 2 (1999, 2005)
 Australia AFC 2015 AFC Asian Cup winners 3 31 January 2015 3 (1997, 2001, 2005)
 Chile CONMEBOL 2015 Copa América winners 4 4 July 2015 0 (debut)
 Mexico CONCACAF 2015 CONCACAF Cup winners 5 10 October 2015 6 (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2013)
 New Zealand OFC 2016 OFC Nations Cup winners 6 11 June 2016 3 (1999, 2003, 2009)
 Portugal UEFA UEFA Euro 2016 winners 7 10 July 2016 0 (debut)
TBD CAF 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winners 8 5 February 2017 TBD
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

    CAF teams in contention

    Winners of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations

    Teams qualified for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations

    Venues

    Four cities will serve as the venues for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.[3][4] All four venues will also be among the 12 used for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

    On 8 October 2015, FIFA and the Local Organising Committee agreed on the official names of the stadiums used during the tournament.[5]

    Saint Petersburg Moscow
    Krestovsky Stadium
    (Saint Petersburg Stadium)    		 Otkrytiye Arena
    (Spartak Stadium)
    Capacity: 68,134
    (new stadium)    		 Capacity: 45,360
    Kazan Sochi
    Kazan Arena Fisht Olympic Stadium
    (Fisht Stadium)
    Capacity: 45,379 Capacity: 47,659

    Schedule

    The full schedule was announced by FIFA on 24 July 2015 (without kick-off times, which was confirmed later).[6] Russia was placed in position A1 in the group stage and will play in the opening match at the Zenit Arena in Saint Petersburg on 17 June. The distribution of the knockout stage matches are as follows:[7]

    Draw

    The draw took place on 26 November 2016, 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Tennis Academy in Kazan.[8]

    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):[9] 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 (regardless of their identity, they could not be among the four highest-ranked participating teams).[10]

    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.[11]

    Pot 1 Pot 2

    Squads

    Each team must first name a preliminary squad of 30 players. From the preliminary squad, the team must name a final squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad may be replaced due to serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match, where the replacement players do not need to be in the preliminary squad.[12]

    Group stage

    The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (regulations Article 19.6):[12]

    1. points obtained in all group matches;
    2. goal difference in all group matches;
    3. number of goals scored in all group matches;

    If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

    1. points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
    2. goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
    3. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
    4. fair play points
      • first yellow card: minus 1 point;
      • indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points;
      • direct red card: minus 4 points;
      • yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points;
    5. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

    All times are local, MSK (UTC+3).[13]

    Group A

    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
    1  Russia (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
    2  New Zealand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    3  Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    4  Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    First match(es) will be played on 17 June 2017. Source: FIFA
    (H) Host.

    17 June 2017 (2017-06-17)
    18:00
    Russia  Match 1  New Zealand

    18 June 2017 (2017-06-18)
    18:00
    Portugal  Match 2  Mexico

    21 June 2017 (2017-06-21)
    18:00
    Russia  Match 5  Portugal

    21 June 2017 (2017-06-21)
    21:00
    Mexico  Match 6  New Zealand

    24 June 2017 (2017-06-24)
    18:00
    Mexico  Match 9  Russia

    Group B

    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
    1 African Champion 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
    2  Chile 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    3  Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    4  Germany 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    First match(es) will be played on 18 June 2017. Source: FIFA

    18 June 2017 (2017-06-18)
    21:00
    African Champion Match 3  Chile

    19 June 2017 (2017-06-19)
    18:00
    Australia  Match 4  Germany

    22 June 2017 (2017-06-22)
    18:00
    African Champion Match 7  Australia

    22 June 2017 (2017-06-22)
    21:00
    Germany  Match 8  Chile

    25 June 2017 (2017-06-25)
    18:00
    Germany  Match 11 African Champion

    25 June 2017 (2017-06-25)
    18:00
    Chile  Match 12  Australia

    Knockout stage

    In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[12]

     
    		Semi-finalsFinal
     
    		      
     
    		28 June — Kazan
     
     
    		Winner Group A
     
    		2 July — Saint Petersburg
     
    		Runner-up Group B
     
    		Winner Match 13
     
    		29 June — Sochi
     
    		Winner Match 14
     
    		Winner Group B
     
     
    		Runner-up Group A
     
    		Third place play-off
     
     
    		2 July — Moscow
     
     
    		Loser Match 13
     
     
    		Loser Match 14

    Semi-finals

    28 June 2017 (2017-06-28)
    21:00
    Winner Group A Match 13 Runner-up Group B

    29 June 2017 (2017-06-29)
    21:00
    Winner Group B Match 14 Runner-up Group A

    Third place play-off

    2 July 2017 (2017-07-02)
    15:00
    Loser Match 13 Match 15 Loser Match 14

    Final

    2 July 2017 (2017-07-02)
    21:00
    Winner Match 13 Match 16 Winner Match 14

    Sponsorship

    FIFA partners FIFA World Cup sponsors Regional partners

    References

    External links

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