2003 Intercontinental Cup

The 2003 Intercontinental Cup was the 42nd Intercontinental Cup, an annual association football match contested by the winners of the previous season's UEFA Champions League and Copa Libertadores competitions. The match was played on 14 December 2003 between Boca Juniors of Argentina, winners of the 2003 Copa Libertadores and AC Milan of Italy, winners of the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League. The match was played at the neutral venue of the International Stadium Yokohama in Yokohama, in front of 70,000 fans. Matías Donnet was named as man of the match.[1]

2003 Intercontinental Cup
Match programme cover
After extra time
Boca Juniors won 3–1 on penalties
Date14 December 2003
VenueInternational Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama
Man of the MatchMatías Donnet (Boca Juniors)
RefereeValentin Ivanov (Russia)
Attendance66,757
2002
2004

Since the 2004 final (a year later) was goalless after the extra 30 minutes and the game was settled by a penalty shoot-out, Matías Donnet scored the last goal of the Intercontinental Cup before being abolished to the FIFA Club World Cup.

Venue

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International Stadium, Yokohama, hosted the final

Match details

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Milan  1–1 (a.e.t.)  Boca Juniors
Tomasson   23' Report Donnet   28'
Penalties
Pirlo  
Rui Costa  
Seedorf  
Costacurta  
1–3   Schiavi
  Battaglia
  Donnet
  Cascini
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Milan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Boca Juniors
GK 12   Dida
RB 2   Cafu   61'
CB 19   Alessandro Costacurta
CB 3   Paolo Maldini (c)
LB 26   Giuseppe Pancaro
DM 21   Andrea Pirlo
CM 8   Gennaro Gattuso   102'
CM 20   Clarence Seedorf
AM 22   Kaká   19'   77'
CF 7   Andriy Shevchenko
CF 15   Jon Dahl Tomasson   69'
Substitutes:
GK 77   Christian Abbiati
DF 4   Kakha Kaladze
DF 24   Martin Laursen
MF 10   Rui Costa   77'
MF 23   Massimo Ambrosini   102'
MF 27   Serginho
FW 9   Filippo Inzaghi   69'
Manager:
  Carlo Ancelotti
 
GK 1   Roberto Abbondanzieri
CB 14   Luis Perea   6'
CB 2   Rolando Schiavi
CB 6   Nicolás Burdisso
RM 8   Diego Cagna (c)
CM 5   Sebastián Battaglia
CM 22   Raúl Cascini
LM 3   Clemente Rodríguez
AM 18   Matías Donnet
CF 10   Iarley
CF 7   Guillermo Barros Schelotto   73'
Substitutes:
GK 12   Willy Caballero
DF 4   Pablo Jerez
DF 13   Diego Crosa
MF 16   Fabián Vargas
MF 20   Javier Villarreal
FW 9   Carlos Tevez   73'
FW 11   Roberto Colautti
Manager:
  Carlos Bianchi

Man of the Match:
  Matías Donnet (Boca Juniors)

Assistant referees:
Gennady Krasyuk (Russia)
Yuri Dupanov (Belarus)
Fourth official:
Masayoshi Okada (Japan)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Leme de Arruda, Marcelo (2 January 2009). "Toyota Cup – Most Valuable Player of the Match Award". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
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