2016 FIFA Club World Cup
The 2016 FIFA Club World Cup was the 13th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions. The tournament was hosted by Japan. Real Madrid won their second Club World Cup, defeating hosts Kashima Antlers in the final.
Host bids
The application process for the 2015–16 as well as the 2017–18 editions, i.e. two hosts, each hosting two years, began in February 2014. Member associations interested in hosting had to submit a declaration of interest by 30 March 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 25 August 2014. The FIFA Executive Committee was to select the hosts at their meeting in Morocco in December 2014. However, no such decision regarding the 2015–2016 host was made until 2015.The following countries expressed an interest in bidding to host the tournament:
Qualified teams
Venues
On 9 June 2016, Suita City Football Stadium in Osaka and International Stadium Yokohama in Yokohama were named as the two venues of the tournament.| Osaka | Yokohama | |
| Suita City Football Stadium | International Stadium Yokohama | |
| Capacity: 39,694 | Capacity: 72,327 | |
Match officials
The appointed match officials were:| Confederation | Referee | Assistant referees | Video assistant referee |
| AFC |  Nawaf Shukralla | Yaser Tulefat Taleb Al Marri |  Ravshan Irmatov |
| CAF |  Janny Sikazwe |  Jerson dos Santos Marwa Range |  Bakary Gassama |
| CONCACAF |  Roberto García | José Camargo Alberto Morín |  Mark Geiger |
| CONMEBOL |  Enrique Cáceres | Eduardo Cardozo Juan Zorrilla |  Andrés Cunha |
| OFC |  Abdelkader Zitouni | Philippe Revel |  Nick Waldron |
| UEFA |  Viktor Kassai | György Ring Vencel Tóth |  Damir Skomina Danny Makkelie |
Video assistant referees were tested during the tournament. The system was used for the first time when a penalty was awarded by referee Viktor Kassai in the first half of the semi-final between Atlético Nacional and Kashima Antlers after a review of video replay.
Squads
Each team had to name a 23-man squad. Injury replacements were allowed until 24 hours before the team's first match. The official squads were announced on 1 December 2016.Matches
The schedule of the tournament was announced on 15 July 2016.A draw was held on 21 September 2016, 11:00 CEST, at the FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, to determine the positions in the bracket for the three teams which enter the quarter-finals.
If a match was tied after normal playing time:
- For elimination matches, extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out would be held to determine the winner.
- For the matches for fifth place and third place, no extra time would be played, and a penalty shoot-out would be held to determine the winner.
All times are local, JST.
Play-off for quarter-finals
Quarter-finals
----Match for fifth place
Semi-finals
----Match for third place
Final
Goalscorers
;1 own goal- Ricardo Nascimento
- Miguel Samudio
Final ranking