The 1995 King Fahd Cup () was the second and last tournament held under the King Fahd Cup name before the competition was retroactively sanctioned by FIFA and recognized as FIFA Confederations Cup. Held as the King Fahd Cup, in honor of the then Saudi ruler who organized the tournament with his country's federation (thus in the form of an unofficial tournament),For FIFA statute, official competitions are those for representative teams organized by FIFA or any confederation. Representative teams are usually national teams but also club teams that represent a confederation in the interconfederal competitions or a member association in a continental competition cfr. cfr. cfr. it was hosted by Saudi Arabia in January 1995. It was won by Denmark, who beat defending champions Argentina 2–0 in the final.
Qualified teams
TeamConfederationQualification methodDate qualification securedParticipation no.AFCHostsalign=center 2ndUEFAUEFA Euro 1992 winners26 June 19921stAFC1992 AFC Asian Cup winners8 November 19921stCONMEBOL1993 Copa América winners4 July 19932ndCONCACAF1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners25 July 19931stCAF1994 African Cup of Nations winners10 April 19941st
Venue All matches were played at the 67,000-capacity King Fahd II Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Match referees Africa Lim Kee Chong Asia Ali Bujsaim Europe Ion Crăciunescu North America, Central America and Caribbean Rodrigo Badilla South America Salvador Imperatore
Squads
Group stage Group A
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Group B
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third place play-off
GK1 Jorge Campos DF2 Claudio SuárezDF4 Ignacio Ambríz DF21Raúl Gutiérrez MF5 Ramón RamírezMF6 Marcelino Bernal MF8 Alberto García Aspe MF9 Jorge RodríguezMF14Joaquín del Olmo FW7 Carlos Hermosillo FW10Luis García Substitutions:MF17Benjamín Galindo Manager:Miguel Mejía Barón GK 1 Peter RufaiDF 2 Augustine Eguavoen DF 3 Benedict Iroha DF 5 Uche Okechukwu DF 20Uche Okafor MF 8 Mutiu Adepoju MF 10Jay-Jay OkochaMF 11Emmanuel AmunikeFW 9 Dominic Iorfa FW 12Samson SiasiaFW 14Daniel Amokachi Substitutions: MF 7 Barnabas Imenger Manager:Shuaibu Amodu
Final
The 1995 King Fahd Cup Final was held at King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 13 January 1995. The match was contested by Denmark and the title holders, Argentina. Denmark won their first King Fahd Cup/Confederations Cup title.
Statistics
Goalscorers With three goals, Luis García was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 19 goals were scored by 14 different players, with none of them credited as an own goal.
3 goals Luis García
2 goals
Gabriel Batistuta Peter Rasmussen Daniel Amokachi
1 goal
José Chamot Ariel Ortega Sebastián Rambert Brian Laudrup Michael Laudrup Morten Wieghorst Kazuyoshi Miura Ramón Ramírez Mutiu Adepoju Emmanuel Amunike
Tournament ranking
References
RSSSF
External links
Intercontinental Championship Saudi Arabia 1995, FIFA.com