FIFA Club World Cup 2025: According to governing organization FIFA’s announcement on Friday, the expanded 32-team Club World Cup will be held in the United States in 2025. Real Madrid, Manchester City, and Chelsea have already secured spots in the extended tournament field that will test stadiums and operations one year before the 2026 World Cup as recent Champions League champions.
“The Club World Cup 2025 will be the pinnacle of elite professional men’s club football, and with the required infrastructure in place together with a massive local interest, the United States is the ideal host to kick off this new, global tournament,” said FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
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Together with Canada and Mexico, the United States will host the men’s World Cup, and FIFA may grant those nations some Club World Cup matches. In June–July 2025, the Club World Cup will take place. During a FIFA Council meeting held online, the United States was selected as the host country.
Since 2005, the World Cup has been held every year in a seven-team, or occasionally six-team, format with the six continental winners of the previous year plus, if necessary, a representation of the host nation. In February, FIFA made the expanded format official.
Four representatives from Asia, four from Africa, four from CONCACAF, which encompasses North and Central America, six from South America, 12 from Europe, including the five Champions Cup champions, one from Oceania, and the host nation will all compete in the new competition.
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According to FIFA, “the United States’ position as a proven leader in staging global events and because it would allow FIFA to maximise synergies with the delivery” of the 2026 competition were also reasons for its commendation.
The Seattle Sounders, who won the CONCACAF area of North American soccer in 2022, are also on the roster for the Club World Cup. As the host country, the Americans ought to receive another entry.
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