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The FIFA Confederations Cup was an international football tournament held every four years by FIFA, contested by eight men's national teams. The participants were the six continental champions from the AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, and UEFA, plus the reigning FIFA World Cup holder and the host nation. Between 2001 and 2017, the competition was staged in the country scheduled to host the following year's World Cup.
Brazil won the FIFA Confederations Cup four times, in 1997, 2005, 2009, and 2013. No other country matched that total. Their 2013 title was claimed on home soil, as Brazil hosted that edition.
On the 15th of March 2019, FIFA officially announced the Confederations Cup would no longer be staged. In October 2017, FIFA had already outlined plans to replace it with a quadrennial 24-team FIFA Club World Cup. Plans for a 2021 edition in Qatar had previously collapsed due to concerns about Qatar's summer temperatures.
Ronaldinho is the all-time top scorer at the FIFA Confederations Cup with nine goals across all editions. Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Fernando Torres each scored eight career goals. Romário holds the single-tournament record, with seven goals at the 1997 edition.
The FIFA Confederations Cup was replaced by a quadrennial, 24-team FIFA Club World Cup. The 2021 FIFA Arab Cup was held in Qatar as a test event ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. UEFA and CONMEBOL also revived a bilateral competition: Argentina beat Italy in the 2022 Finalissima on the 1st of June 2022.
Germany won the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, defeating Chile 1-0 in the final. It was Germany's first title in the competition. Julian Draxler won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player.