America to host new FIFA Club World Cup in 2025 Loktej Sports, World News

Geneva, 18 December (HS). FIFA on Sunday announced the schedule and details of a revised FIFA Club World Cup, the first edition of which will be played in the United States in 2025.

The FIFA Council met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Sunday ahead of the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup semi-finals, laying out several key principles for the new 32-team event, which will be held from June 15 to July 13, 2025.

Unlike the current annual Club World Cup format, the new structure sees the tournament take place only once every four years. Clubs qualify for the tournament with the new standard ranking, which gives three points for a win and one point for a draw as usual, plus three for progressing to each stage of the continental competitions of the five confederations except Europe. Gives points.

The methodology of European clubs is more complex, awarding two points for a win and four points for qualification to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

FIFA said in a statement, “With the aim of ensuring the highest quality based on playing criteria over the most recent four seasons, starting from the group stage of the confederation’s relevant premier club competition, and encouraging the outcome of each game in the relevant tournament.” For, the following methodology was approved new standard ranking.”

The 2025 tournament will feature 12 teams from Europe, six from South America, four each from Asia, Africa and North and Central America, one from Oceania and one additional team from the host country.

The group stage of the tournament is composed of eight groups of four teams per group playing in a single-game round-robin format, with the top two teams per group advancing to the round of 16. A direct single-match knockout stage starts from the round of 16 to the final, and no third-place play-off will be held.

In addition to the revamped Club World Cup, FIFA also announced the formation of a new annual global club competition, to be known as the Intercontinental Cup.

Similar in structure to the current Club World Cup format, the Intercontinental Cup will pit each confederation’s continental title winners against each other. The UEFA Champions League winners will be given a bye to the final to face the winners of an intercontinental play-off between clubs from other confederations.

It was also announced that Chile will host the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup, and Poland will host the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.