2011 FIFA Club World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Club World Cup was a football tournament that was played from 8 to 18 December 2011. It was the eighth edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations as well as the host nation's league champions.
After the United Arab Emirates hosted the tournament in 2009 and 2010, hosting rights for the 2011 edition returned to Japan. During a visit to Japan on 23 May 2011, FIFA President Sepp Blatter confirmed that Japan would remain as hosts of the tournament despite the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
The tournament was won by Spanish club Barcelona, who defeated Brazilian club Santos 4–0 in the final.
Qualified teams
1 In bold: Previous tournament winnersReferees
Appointed referees are:| Confederation | Referee | Assistant referees |
| AFC |  Ravshan Irmatov | Abdukhamidullo Rasulov  Bakhadyr Kochkarov |
| AFC |  Yuichi Nishimura | Toshiyuki Nagi Toru Sagara |
| CAF |  Noumandiez Doué | Songuifolo Yeo  Djibril Camara |
| CONCACAF |  Joel Aguilar | William Torres Mejia Juan Francisco Zumba |
| CONMEBOL |  Enrique Osses | Francisco Mondria Carlos Alexis Astroza |
| OFC |  Peter O'Leary | Jan-Hendrik Hintz  Ravinesh Kumar |
| UEFA |  Nicola Rizzoli | Renato Faverani Andrea Stefani |
Squads
Each team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of them goalkeepers.Venues
Yokohama and Toyota were the two cities that served as venues for the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup.Matches
A draw was held on 17 November in Nagoya to decide the "positions" of the three teams entering the quarter-finals: Al-Sadd, Espérance de Tunis, and Monterrey.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 the match would go straight to a penalty shootout to determine the winner.