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World Football Challenge
Tournament details

Host country	United States
Dates	July 19 – July 26
Teams	4 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Chelsea (1st title)
Runner-up	América
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	14 (2.33 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Didier Drogba (2 goals) Diego Milito

The World Football Challenge was an exhibition international club football (soccer) competition featuring football club teams from Europe and North America, which was held in the summer of 2009. Each team played the other three teams in the tournament once in a round-robin tournament format, with each game played at a neutral venue in the United States. Chelsea F.C. emerged as the World Football Challenge champion for 2009.

1 Teams
2 Venues
3 Rules
4 Standings
- 4.1 Fixtures
5 Top scorers
6 References
7 External links

Teams

The following four clubs participated in the 2009 tournament:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Chelsea from the Premier League in England
América from the Primera División in Mexico
Internazionale from the Serie A in Italy
Milan from the Serie A in Italy

Venues

Six cities served as the venues of the 2009 World Football Challenge.^[3]

Palo Alto, California	Pasadena, California	Atlanta, Georgia	Baltimore, Maryland	Foxborough, Massachusetts	Arlington, Texas
Stanford Stadium	Rose Bowl	Georgia Dome	M&T Bank Stadium	Gillette Stadium	Cowboys Stadium
Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 92,542	Capacity: 71,228	Capacity: 71,008	Capacity: 68,756	Capacity: 80,000

Rules

Chelsea vs Club America at the Cowboys Stadium

Clubs received one point for each goal scored in regulation (up to three goals per game). Clubs earned three points for a win that does not go into penalty kicks. After 90 minutes of play, if the match was tied, each team received one point and the winner of the penalty kicks received an additional point. The team with the highest overall number of points determined the World Football Challenge champion.^[4]

Standings

Team	Pld	W	WPk	LPk	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chelsea	3	3	0	0	0	6	1	+5	15
América	3	1	1	0	1	3	4	−1	8
Internazionale	3	1	0	1	1	3	3	0	7
Milan	3	0	0	0	3	2	6	−4	2

Fixtures

July 19, 2009 19:00 EST	América	1 – 1	Internazionale	Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto, CA Attendance: 31,026 Referee: Baldomero Toledo (United States)
	Silva 51'	Report	Córdoba 61'

		Penalties
	Chitiva Mosquera Silva Márquez Ó. Rojas	5 – 4	Balotelli Milito Ibrahimović Vieira Burdisso

July 21, 2009 23:00 EST	Chelsea	2 – 0	Internazionale	Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA Attendance: 81,224 Referee: Ricardo Salazar (United States)
	Drogba 11' Lampard 50' (pen.)	Report

July 22, 2009 19:00 EST	América	2 – 1	Milan	Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA Attendance: 53,600 Referee: Alex Prus (United States)
	Esqueda 56' Márquez 84'	Report	Inzaghi 66'

July 24, 2009 20:00 EST	Chelsea	2 – 1	Milan	M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, MD Attendance: 71,203 Referee: Mark Geiger (United States)
	Drogba 7' Zhirkov 69'	Report	Seedorf 38'

July 26, 2009 17:00 EST	Internazionale	2 – 0	Milan	Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA Attendance: 42,531^[5] Referee: Jorge González (United States)
	Milito 4', 75'	Report

July 26, 2009 19:00 EST	Chelsea	2 – 0	América	Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX Attendance: 57,229 Referee: Paul Ward (Canada)
	Di Santo 76' Malouda 78'	Report

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	2
1	Diego Milito	Internazionale	2
3	Iván Córdoba	Internazionale	1
	Enrique Esqueda	América
	Filippo Inzaghi	Milan
	Frank Lampard	Chelsea
	Florent Malouda	Chelsea
	Daniel Márquez	América
	Franco Di Santo	Chelsea
	Clarence Seedorf	Milan
	Juan Carlos Silva	América
	Yuri Zhirkov	Chelsea

References

^ Scime, Adam (24 March 2009). "Inter, Chelsea And Milan Enter World Football Challenge 2009 Tournament". Goal.com. http://www.goal.com/en/news/13/united-states/2009/03/24/1173130/inter-chelsea-and-milan-enter-world-football-challenge-2009-tour. Retrieved 21 July 2009. "Chelsea, Milan and Inter have entered the World Football Challenge 2009 tournament along with Mexican entrants Club America."
^ Cardillo, Michael (24 March 2009). "World Football Challenge Coming to a City Near You". Fanhouse. http://soccer.fanhouse.com/2009/03/24/world-football-challenge-coming-to-a-city-near-you/. Retrieved 21 July 2009. "... which brings super clubs Chelsea, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Club America to a six-match 'series' this summer..."
^ ^a ^b "Chelsea, Inter, Club America and AC Milan to face off in U.S.". ESPN Soccernet. 24 March 2009. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=630912&cc=5901. Retrieved 21 July 2009.
^ "World Football Challenge". World Football Challenge. http://www.worldfootballchallenge.com/. Retrieved 21 July 2009.
^ http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=276251&cc=5901

External links

World Football Challenge Home Page

Friendly tournaments in 2009

Copa Bimbo	Montevideo 17 – 21 January

Copa Internacional Cafam	Bogotá 28 January – 2 Febraury

World Football Challenge	United States 19 – 26 July

Wembley Cup	London 24 – 26 July

Amsterdam Tournament	Amsterdam 24 – 26 July

Peace Cup	Spain 24 July – 2 August

Edmonton Cup	Edmonton 25 July

Audi Cup	Munich 29 – 30 July

Barclays Asia Trophy	Beijing 29 - 31 July

Emirates Cup	London 1 – 2 August

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