1999 FIFA Confederations Cup

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1999 FIFA Confederations Cup

Copa Confederaciones México '99
1999 FIFA Confederations Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Mexico
Dates	25 July - 4 August
Teams	8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (1st title)
Runner-up	Brazil
Third place	United States
Fourth place	Saudi Arabia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	55 (3.44 per match)
Attendance	970,000 (60,625 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ronaldinho Cuauhtémoc Blanco Marzouq Al-Otaibi (6 goals)
Best player	Ronaldinho

The 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup was the fourth FIFA Confederations Cup, and the second organized by FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Mexico between 25 July and 4 August 1999. It was won by Mexico, who beat Brazil 4–3 in the final. The competition was to originally be held in three stadiums, in three cities in the country. However, since the stadiums in Monterrey were sponsored by a competing beer company than the official advertiser, the city was left out of the tournament all together.

Contents 1 Participating teams 2 Venues 3 Match officials 4 Squads 5 Group stage 5.1 Group A 5.2 Group B 6 Knockout stage 6.1 Semi-finals 6.2 Third place play-off 6.3 Final 7 Title 8 Awards 9 Top scorers 10 Notes

[edit] Participating teams

Team	Confederation	Qualification	Participation
Mexico	CONCACAF	hosts and 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners	3rd
Bolivia	CONMEBOL	Copa América 1997 runners-up	1st
Brazil	CONMEBOL	Copa América 1997 winners and 1998 FIFA World Cup runners-up1	2nd
Egypt	CAF	1998 African Cup of Nations winners	1st
Germany	UEFA	UEFA Euro 1996 winners	1st
New Zealand	OFC	1998 OFC Nations Cup winners	1st
Saudi Arabia	AFC	1996 AFC Asian Cup winners	4th
United States	CONCACAF	1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup runners-up	2nd

¹France, the 1998 FIFA World Cup winner declined to participate.

[edit] Venues

The matches were played in:

Mexico City	Guadalajara
Estadio Azteca	Estadio Jalisco
Capacity:115,000	Capacity:66,700

[edit] Match officials

Africa Coffi Codjia Asia Young-Joo Kim Europe Anders Frisk

North America, Central America and Caribbean Gilberto Alcala Brian Hall South America Ubaldo Aquino Óscar Ruiz

[edit] Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament see, 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup squads

[edit] Group stage

[edit] Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	8	3	+5	7
Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	6	6	0	4
Bolivia	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
Egypt	3	0	2	1	5	9	−4	2

1999-07-25	Bolivia	2 – 2	Egypt	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Gutiérrez  21' Ribera  40'		Sabry  8' Radwan  63'

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1999-07-25	Mexico	5 – 1	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Óscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	Blanco  12'  19'  68'  77' Abundis  21'		Al-Temyat  62' (pen.)

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1999-07-27	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Bolivia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Brian Hall (United States)

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1999-07-27	Mexico	2 – 2	Egypt	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
	Pardo  15' Abundis  26'		A. Hassan  79' S. Ibrahim  85'

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1999-07-29	Egypt	1 – 5	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	S. Ibrahim  70' (pen.)		Al-Otaibi  8'  34'  78'  85' Al-Shahrani  64'

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1999-07-29	Mexico	1 – 0	Bolivia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Oscar Ruíz (Colombia)
	Palencia  52'

[edit] Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9
United States	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
Germany	3	1	0	2	2	6	−4	3
New Zealand	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

1999-07-24	Brazil	4 – 0	Germany	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Gilberto Alcala (Mexico)
	Zé Roberto  62' Ronaldinho  72' (pen.) Alex  86'  87'

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1999-07-24	New Zealand	1 – 2	United States	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	Zoricich  90'		McBride  25' Kirovski  58'

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1999-07-28	Germany	2 – 0	New Zealand	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)
	Preetz  6' Matthäus  33'

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1999-07-28	Brazil	1 – 0	United States	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 54,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Ronaldinho  13'

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1999-07-30	United States	2 – 0	Germany	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 53,000 Referee: Gilberto Alcala (Mexico)
	Olsen  23' Moore  50'

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1999-07-30	New Zealand	0 – 2	Brazil	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 53,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
			Marcos Paulo  47' Ronaldinho  88'

[edit] Knockout stage

	Semi finals				Final
	1 August - Mexico City
	Mexico	1
	United States	0
					4 August - Mexico City
					Mexico	4
					Brazil	3
					Third place
	1 August - Guadalajara			3 August - Guadalajara
	Brazil	8		United States	2
	Saudi Arabia	2			Saudi Arabia	0

[edit] Semi-finals

1999-08-01	Mexico	1 – 0 (asdet)	United States	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 82,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
	Blanco  97'

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1999-08-01	Brazil	8 – 2	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	João Carlos  8' Ronaldinho  11'  65'  90' Zé Roberto  33' Alex  36'  86' Roni  62'		Al-Otaibi  22'  31'

[edit] Third place play-off

1999-08-03	United States	2 – 0	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	Bravo  27' McBride  78'

[edit] Final

1999-08-04	Mexico	4 – 3	Brazil	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 110,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Zepeda  13'  51' Abundis  28' Blanco  62'		Serginho  43' (pen.) Roni  47' Zé Roberto  63'

[edit] Title

1999 Confederations Cup Winner
Mexico First title

[edit] Awards

Golden Shoe Winner	Golden Ball Winner	FIFA Fair Play Trophy
Ronaldinho	Ronaldinho	Brazil  New Zealand

Silver Ball Winner	Bronze Ball Winner
Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Marzouq Al-Otaibi
Silver Shoe Winner	Bronze Shoe Winner
Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Marzouq Al-Otaibi

[edit] Top scorers

6 goals

• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Marzouq Al-Otaibi
• Ronaldinho

4 goals

• Alex

3 goals

• José Manuel Abundis
• Zé Roberto

[edit] Notes

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