1999 FIFA Confederations Cup
Copa Confederaciones México '99
Tournament details
Host country	Mexico
Teams	8 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (1st title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	USA
Fourth place	Saudi Arabia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	55  (3.44 per match)
Attendance	970,000  (60,625 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ronaldinho Cuauhtémoc Blanco Marzouq Al-Otaibi (6 goals)
Best player	Ronaldinho

The 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup was the fourth FIFA Confederations Cup, and the second organised by FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Mexico between 25 July and 4 August 1999. It was won by Mexico, who beat Brazil 4–3 in the final. The competition was to originally be held in three stadiums, in three cities in the country. However, since the stadiums in Monterrey were sponsored by a competing beer company than the official advertiser, the city was left out of the tournament all together.

Participating teams

•  Mexico - hosts and 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions
•  Brazil - 1998 FIFA World Cup runners-up and Copa América 1997 champions^[1]
•  Germany - UEFA Euro 1996 champions
•  Egypt - 1998 African Cup of Nations champions
•  New Zealand - 1998 OFC Nations Cup champions
•  Saudi Arabia - 1996 AFC Asian Cup champions
•  Bolivia - Copa América 1997 runners-up
•  USA - 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup runners-up

Match officials

Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament see, 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup squads

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	8	3	+5	7
Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	6	6	0	4
Bolivia	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
Egypt	3	0	2	1	5	9	−4	2

1999-07-25	Bolivia	2 – 2	Egypt	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Gutiérrez  21' Ribera  40'		Sabry  8' Radwan  63'

1999-07-25	Mexico	5 – 1	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Óscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	Blanco  12'  19'  68'  77' Abundis  21'		Al-Temyat  62' (pen.)

1999-07-27	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Bolivia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Brian Hall (United States)

1999-07-27	Mexico	2 – 2	Egypt	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
	Pardo  15' Abundis  26'		A. Hassan  79' S. Ibrahim  85'

1999-07-29	Egypt	1 – 5	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	S. Ibrahim  70' (pen.)		Al-Otaibi  8'  34'  78'  85' Al-Shahrani  64'

1999-07-29	Mexico	1 – 0	Bolivia	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Oscar Ruíz (Colombia)
	Palencia  52'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9
USA	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
Germany	3	1	0	2	2	6	−4	3
New Zealand	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

1999-07-24	Brazil	4 – 0	Germany	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Gilberto Alcala (Mexico)
	Zé Roberto  62' Ronaldinho  72' (pen.) Alex  86'  87'

1999-07-24	New Zealand	1 – 2	USA	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	Zoricich  90'		McBride  25' Kirovski  58'

1999-07-28	Germany	2 – 0	New Zealand	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)
	Preetz  6' Matthäus  33'

1999-07-28	Brazil	1 – 0	USA	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 54,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Ronaldinho  13'

1999-07-30	USA	2 – 0	Germany	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 53,000 Referee: Gilberto Alcala (Mexico)
	Olsen  23' Moore  50'

1999-07-30	New Zealand	0 – 2	Brazil	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 53,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
			Marcos Paulo  47' Ronaldinho  88'

Knockout stage

	Semi finals				Final
	1 August - Mexico City
	Mexico	1
	USA	0
					4 August - Mexico City
					Mexico	4
					Brazil	3
					Third place
	1 August - Guadalajara			3 August - Guadalajara
	Brazil	8		USA	2
	Saudi Arabia	2			Saudi Arabia	0

Semi-finals

1999-08-01	Mexico	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	USA	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 82,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
	Blanco  97'

1999-08-01	Brazil	8 – 2	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	João Carlos  8' Ronaldinho  11'  65'  90' Zé Roberto  33' Alex  36'  86' Roni  62'		Al-Otaibi  22'  31'

Third place play-off

1999-08-03	USA	2 – 0	Saudi Arabia	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	Bravo  27' McBride  78'

Final

1999-08-04	Mexico	4 – 3	Brazil	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 110,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
	Zepeda  13'  51' Abundis  28' Blanco  62'		Serginho  43' (pen.) Roni  47' Zé Roberto  63'

1999 Confederations Cup Winner
Mexico First title

Top scorers

6 goals

• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Marzouq Al-Otaibi
• Ronaldinho

4 goals

• Alex

3 goals

• José Manuel Abundis
• Zé Roberto

Awards

• Golden Ball: Ronaldinho
• Silver Ball: Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Bronze Ball: Marzouq Al-Otaibi

Notes

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