South Africa 2009 - FIFA Confederations Cup (14 June 2009 - 28 June 2009)

The 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup will be the eighth Confederations Cup, and will be held in South Africa from 14 June to 28 June 2009, as a prelude to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The draw was held on 22 November 2008 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. The opening match will be played at Coca-Cola Park in Johannesburg. The defending champions are Brazil, who won in 2005.


Qualified teams
South Africa - CAF - 2010 FIFA World Cup host
Italy - UEFA - 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
United States - CONCACAF - 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner
Brazil - CONMEBOL - Copa América 2007 winner
Iraq - AFC - 2007 AFC Asian Cup winner
Egypt - CAF - 2008 African Cup of Nations winner
Spain - UEFA - UEFA Euro 2008 winner
New Zealand - OFC - 2008 OFC Nations Cup winner

The draw for the competition was held on 22 November 2008 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Each team was represented in the draw by its competitor in the Miss World 2008 competition, except for Iraq, which was represented by Miss World 2007, Zhang Zilin, from the People's Republic of China. The teams were divided into two pots:
Pot A: South Africa (automatically placed as Team A1), Brazil, Italy, Spain
Pot B: Egypt, Iraq, New Zealand, United States

Teams from the same confederation were not drawn into the same group, therefore Egypt was drawn into Group B. Also as result, Italy and Spain were drawn into different groups.

First Round Results (as at 14 June 2009)

Group A

14 June 09 South Africa 0 Iraq 0

14 June 09 New Zealand 0 Spain 5

17 June 09 Spain vs Iraq

17 June 09 South Africa vs New Zealand

20 June 09 Iraq vs New Zealand

20 June 09 Spain vs South Africa

Group B

15 June 09 Brazil vs Egypt

15 June 09 United States vs Italy

18 June 09 United States vs Brazil

18 June 09 Egypt vs Italy

21 June 09 Italy vs Brazil

21 June 09 Egypt vs United States

Semi-finals

24 June 09 Winners of Group A vs Runner-up of Group B

25 June 09 Winners of Group B vs Runner-up of Group A

Third place match

28 June 09

Final

28 June 09

Top Scorers Chart (as at 14 June 2009)

3 goals - Fernando Torres (Spain)

1 goal - Francesc Fabregas (Spain), David Villa (Spain)