FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP: JAPAN 2015

The 2015 FIFA Club World Cup will be the 12th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between the champion clubs from each of the six continental confederations, as well as the national league champion from the host country. The tournament will be hosted by Japan between 10–20 December 2015.

The application process to host the 2015–2016 as well as the 2017–2018 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:

India (withdrew interest in November 2014)
Japan

Japan was officially confirmed as hosts of the 2015 and 2016 tournaments on 23 April 2015.

Proposed change to format

Under a proposed change to the competition, led by the Oceania Football Confederation, the new format would mean a removal of the knockout rounds for the quarter-finals and play-off round, replacing it with two round-robin groups of three teams, consisting of two teams from the host nation and the champions of AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, and OFC, with the group winners advancing to the semi-finals to play the champions of CONMEBOL and UEFA. This would allow for all teams to play at least two matches, avoiding the current situation where the loser of the play-off round would play only one match. A decision on this was to be taken after the 2014 competition. However, according to the press release of the host country, the tournament will continue with the original seven-team format in 2015.

^{The following is a schedule of this edition's match schedules:}
All times are local, JST (UTC+9).

Play-off for quarter-finals

10 December 2015
19:45

Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Match 1	Auckland City

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Quarter-finals

A draw was held on 23 September 2015, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, to determine the positions in the bracket for the three teams which enter the quarter-finals.

13 December 2015
16:00