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= Confederations Cup 1997 =

# Date       Fri Dec 12 - Sun Dec 21 1997 (9d)
# Teams      8
# Matches    16


▪ Group A
Fri Dec 12
  Saudi Arabia           0-3 Brazil                   @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (César Sampaio 65' Romário 73',80')
  Mexico                 1-3 Australia                @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Luis Hernández 80'(p);
      Mark Viduka 45' John Aloisi 59' Damian Mori 90')
Sun Dec 14
  Australia              0-0 Brazil                   @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  Saudi Arabia           0-5 Mexico                   @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Francisco Palencia 20',62' Cuauhtémoc Blanco 68',76' Braulio Luna 75')
Tue Dec 16
  Brazil                 3-2 Mexico                   @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Romário 41'(p) Denílson de Oliveira Araújo 61' Júnior Baiano 66';
      Cuauhtémoc Blanco 51' Ramón Ramírez 90')
  Saudi Arabia           1-0 Australia                @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi 40')

▪ Group B
Sat Dec 13
  United Arab Emirates   0-2 Uruguay                  @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Nicolás Olivera 45' Antonio Pacheco D'Agosti 90')
  South Africa           2-2 Czech Republic           @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Brendan Augustine 39' Helman Mkhalele 86';
      Vladimír Šmicer 19',40')
Mon Dec 15
  United Arab Emirates   1-0 South Africa             @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Hassan Mubarak 5')
  Czech Republic         1-2 Uruguay                  @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Horst Siegl 89';
      Nicolás Olivera 26' Marcelo Zalayeta 88')
Wed Dec 17
  United Arab Emirates   1-6 Czech Republic           @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Adnan Al Talyani 78';
      Mohamed Obaid Al-Zahiri 11'(og) Pavel Nedvěd 22',31' Vladimír Šmicer 42',68',71')
  Uruguay                4-3 South Africa             @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Darío Silva 12',66' Álvaro Recoba 42' Christian Callejas 90';
      Lucas Radebe 11' Helman Mkhalele 69' Pollen Ndlanya 77')

▪ Semi-final
Fri Dec 19
  Brazil                 2-0 Czech Republic           @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Romário 54' Ronaldo 83')
  Uruguay                0-1 Australia                @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Harry Kewell 92')

▪ Final
Sun Dec 21
  Brazil                 6-0 Australia                @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Ronaldo 15',27',59' Romário 38',53',75'(p))

▪ Third place playoff
Sun Dec 21
  Czech Republic         1-0 Uruguay                  @ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
     (Edvard Lasota 63')

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