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The FIFA Club World Cup, formerly known as the '''FIFA Club World Championship''', is a Football competition contested between the champion clubs from all 6 continental confederations, although since 2007 the champions of Oceania must play a qualifying play-off against the champion club of the host country. The first competition took place in Brazil in January 2000 . It was intended by FIFA to be a replacement for the Intercontinental Cup (also known as the Toyota Cup), which was contested annually in Tokyo , Japan by the champions of Europe and South America . The new tournament was not popular in Europe, but nevertheless a Second Edition was penciled in for Spain in 2001 , to feature 12 teams. This was cancelled owing to a combination of factors, most importantly the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL . It was then intended to hold the event in 2003 , but this also failed to happen. FIFA eventually agreed terms with the Toyota Cup to merge the two competitions, with the first installment of the relaunched Club World Championship held in Japan between December 11 and December 18 2005 . Japan has hosted the yearly competition since, but open bidding processes for hosting it will begin with the 2009 edition.1 CHAMPIONS ''For finals including both Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, see Intercontinental Cup And FIFA Club World Cup Statistics .'' HONOURS CHAMPIONSHIPS BY TEAM ''For statistics including both Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, see Intercontinental Cup And FIFA Club World Cup Statistics .'' CHAMPIONSHIPS BY COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS BY CONFEDERATION
PARTICIPATIONS BY COUNTRY ''see FIFA Club World Cup Participants '' SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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