2013 FIFA Confederations Cup

 The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, the ninth FIFA Confederations Cup, is an international association football tournament being held in Brazil in 2013, as a prelude to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The tournament is held from 15 to 30 June 2013. Brazil are the defending champions.

As the competition partially overlaps with the fourth round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification in Asian zone, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) asked FIFA to consider a change of date. However, the AFC decided that the match day will be adjusted only for Japan, the representative of AFC for the Confederations Cup.

Uruguay, Italy and Spain will have the opportunity to become the third team (after Argentina and France) to win all three major FIFA tournaments: the World Cup, the Olympic football competition and the Confederations Cup.

2013 FIFA Confederations Cup participating teams

Team	Confederation	Qualification method	Date qualification secured	Participation no.
Brazil	CONMEBOL	Hosts	30 October 2007	7th
Spain	UEFA	2010 FIFA World Cup winner	11 July 2010	2nd
Japana	AFC	2011 AFC Asian Cup winner	29 January 2011	5th
Mexico	CONCACAF	2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner	25 June 2011	6th
Uruguay	CONMEBOL	2011 Copa America winner	24 July 2011	2nd
Tahiti	OFC	2012 OFC Nations Cup winner	10 June 2012	1st
Italy	UEFA	UEFA Euro 2012 runners-up	28 June 2012	2nd
Nigeria	CAF	2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner	10 February 2013	2nd

Italy was awarded a spot in the competition because Spain had won both the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2012. Since both competitions award their winners a place in the FIFA Confederations Cup, the runner-up of UEFA Euro 2012 received an invitation to the tournament.

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