2009 World Football Challenge
The 2009 World Football Challenge was the first World Football Challenge event, an exhibition international club football competition featuring football clubs from Europe and North America, which has been held first in summer of 2009. Chelsea are the 2009 champions.
Format
In 2009, each team played the other three teams in the tournament once in a round-robin tournament format, with each game played at a neutral venue in the United States. Chelsea emerged as the World Football Challenge champion for 2009. The following four clubs participated in the 2009 tournament:- Chelsea from the Premier League in England
- América from the Primera División de México in Mexico
- Inter Milan from the Serie A in Italy
- Milan from the Serie A in Italy
Venues
| Atlanta, Georgia | Baltimore, Maryland | Foxborough, Massachusetts | Arlington, Texas |
| Georgia Dome | M&T Bank Stadium | Gillette Stadium | Cowboys Stadium |
| Capacity: 71,228 | Capacity: 71,008 | Capacity: 68,756 | Capacity: 80,000 |
Rules
Clubs received one point for each goal scored in regulation time. Clubs earned three points for a win that does not go into penalty kicks. After 90 minutes of play, if the match was tied, each team received one point and the winner of the penalty kicks received an additional point. The team with the highest overall number of points determined the World Football Challenge champion.Standings
Matches
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Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Nation | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Didier Drogba | Chelsea | 2 | |
| 1 | Diego Milito | Inter Milan | 2 | |
| 3 | Iván Córdoba | Inter Milan | 1 | |
| 3 | Enrique Esqueda | América | 1 | |
| 3 | Filippo Inzaghi | Milan | 1 | |
| 3 | Frank Lampard | Chelsea | 1 | |
| 3 | Florent Malouda | Chelsea | 1 | |
| 3 | Daniel Márquez | América | 1 | |
| 3 | Franco Di Santo | Chelsea | 1 | |
| 3 | Clarence Seedorf | Milan | 1 | |
| 3 | Juan Carlos Silva | América | 1 | |
| 3 | Yuri Zhirkov | Chelsea | 1 |