2007 FIFA Club World Cup final

The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup final took place at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan on 16 December 2007.

2007 FIFA Club World Cup final

Event	2007 FIFA Club World Cup
Boca Juniors Milan 2 4
Date	16 December 2007
Venue	Nissan Stadium Yokohama, Japan[1]
Referee	Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)[1]
Attendance	68,263[1]
Weather	Clear night 8 °C (46 °F) 33% humidity
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The match pitted Milan of Italy, the UEFA club champions, against Boca Juniors of Argentina, the CONMEBOL club champions. Milan won 4–2 in a match watched by 68,263 people. In doing so, Milan became the first non-Brazilian team – and first European – to win the Club World Cup. They won their fourth FIFA Club World Cup/Intercontinental Cup which was a repeat of the 2003 Intercontinental Cup where Milan had lost to Boca Juniors. Milan also overtook Boca Juniors, Nacional, Peñarol, Real Madrid and São Paulo as the only team to have won the competition four times. Kaká was named as man of the match.^[2]

Road to final

Boca Juniors	Team	Milan
CONMEBOL	Confederation	UEFA
Winner of the 2007 Copa Libertadores	Qualification	Winner of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League
Bye	Play-off round	Bye
Bye	Quarter-finals	Bye
1–0 Étoile du Sahel	Semi-finals	1–0 Urawa Red Diamonds

Match

Details

Boca Juniors	2–4	Milan
Palacio 22' Ledesma 85'	Report	Inzaghi 21', 71' Nesta 50' Kaká 61'

16 December 2007

19:30 (UTC+9)

Nissan Stadium, Yokohama

Attendance: 68,263^[1]

Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)^[1]

Boca Juniors

Milan

GK 12 Mauricio Caranta CB 20 Jonatan Maidana CB 29 Gabriel Paletta  73' CB 3 Claudio Morel DM 5 Sebastián Battaglia  55' RM 4 Hugo Ibarra  40' CM 15 Álvaro González  67' CM 24 Éver Banega LM 19 Neri Cardozo  68' CF 14 Rodrigo Palacio CF 9 Martín Palermo (c) Substitutions: MF 8 Pablo Ledesma  88'  67' MF 11 Leandro Gracián  68' Manager Miguel Ángel Russo

GK 1 Dida RB 25 Daniele Bonera CB 13 Alessandro Nesta CB 3 Paolo Maldini (c) LB 4 Kakha Kaladze  77' CM 21 Andrea Pirlo CM 23 Massimo Ambrosini  22' CM 8 Gennaro Gattuso  65' AM 22 Kaká  62' AM 10 Clarence Seedorf  87' CF 9 Filippo Inzaghi  76' Substitutions: MF 5 Emerson  65' DF 2 Cafu  76' MF 32 Cristian Brocchi  87' Manager Carlo Ancelotti

Assistant referees: José Luis Camargo (Mexico)[1] Pedro Rebollar (Mexico)[1] Fourth official: Mark Shield (Australia)[1]

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Twelve named substitutes, of which three may be used

Statistics

Overall^[3]

	Boca Juniors	Milan
Goals scored	2	4
Total shots	17	14
Shots on target	9	7
Ball possession	49%	51%
Corner kicks	5	2
Fouls committed	22	14
Offsides	4	3
Yellow cards	3	2
Red cards	1	1

See also

• 2003 Intercontinental Cup – contested between same teams
• A.C. Milan in European football