20 December 2015

Facts and figures from 2015 FIFA World Club Cup

Six confederations plus the host country's league winner, send their club champion to the FIFA final tournament each year just to see which team plays best football. After completion of today's games here is how final table looks like for the seven best clubs in the world:

PositionClubChampionsCountry
1BarcelonaEuropeSpain
2River PlateCONMEBOLArgentina
3Sanfrecce HiroshimahostJapan
4Guangzhou EvergrandeAsiaChina
5CF AmericaCONCACAFMexico
6TP MazembeAfricaDR Congo
7Auckland City FCOceaniaNew Zealand

At the twelfth edition of this competition, there was 21 goals scored or 2.6 per match. Eight goals were scored in the first half, while strikers was mostly in the mood for second half where even 13 times have touched the net. The only team which have not score a goal in its single game in this tournament is Auckland City FC. The New Zealand team lost the opener 2:0 against J-league winners and host Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
In eight games played in this tournament there was only 1 penalty given. It was for the European and Spanish champions Barcelona against Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao FC in the second semi-final game. In total 14 players managed to enter the score sheet.

Goal/sPlayer nameClub
5Luis SuarezBarcelona
2Tsukasa ShiotaniSanfrecce Hiroshima
2PaulinhoGuangzhou Evergrande
2DouglasSanfrecce Hiroshima
1Yusuke MinagawaSanfrecce Hiroshima
1Oribe PeraltaCF America
1Long ZhengGuangzhou Evergrande
1Kazuhiko ChibaSanfrecce Hiroshima
1Takuma AsanoSanfrecce Hiroshima
1Dario BenedettoCF America
1Martin ZunigaCF America
1Rainford KalabaTP Mazembe
1Lucas AlarioRiver Plate
1Lionel MessiBarcelona

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