How will the 2025 Club World Cup be played in its new format?

The new Club World Cup format will be similar to the previous World Cup, with 32 teams and over a month

He new format of the Club World Cupwhich will premiere in 2025will have 32 participating teams and will be played over a month in a host country, so the annual process that brought together seven clubs annually will end in December 2023 in Saudi Arabia.

The places for each confederation will be distributed depending on the confederation; there will be 12 teams from the UEFA (Europe), 6th of conmebol (South America), 4 concacaf (North America), 4 CAF (Asia), 1 OFC (Oceania) and a representative of the host country.

It is worth mentioning that, in the event that a club has won two or more editions of the highest club competition of its confederation in the 2021-2024 period, a club classification calculated according to sporting criteria will be used to access the tournament.

A limit of two clubs per country will be imposed on the access list, except in cases where more than two clubs from the same country win their confederation’s top club competition over a four-year period.

The format will have a group phase of eight zones of four participants each, in which the first two places in each group will qualify for the round of 16.

On the other hand, the advice of the FIFA approved an annual club competition starting in 2024, since the current version of the Club World Cup It will stop playing after the 2023 fair.

The tournament, similar to its previous version, will bring together the champions of the highest club competitions by confederation and will conclude with a final held at a neutral venue, but the team from the UEFA that raises the Champions It will automatically access and wait for an intercontinental tie between the rest of the confederations to throw its rival.

Which teams are qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup?

By UEFA the last four champions of the Champions League in the period 2021 to 2024, that is, Chelsea y Real Madrid have a guaranteed place, one more will come out of the final between Manchester City e Inter and that of 2024 is free. The other eight places in the international tournament will be assigned according to the ranking of the confederation.

Brazil will have a double presence in the Club World Cup 2025well palm trees y Flamengo respectively raised the Libertadores Cup 2021 and 2022, while the 2023 position is defined in November and the 2024 position is pending. The remaining pair of tickets will also be allocated by ranking within conmebol.

concacaf has a pending site, since only the champions of the confederation tournament will attend the fair and Monterrey won the trophy in 2021, Seattle Sounders in 2022 and León He is the most recent monarch.

For Asia, Al Hilal will attend the Club World Cup thanks to the laurel obtained in 2021, Urawa Red Diamonds did the same in the 2022-23 edition and, like Leónthey will play the 2023 edition and 2025 of the Club World Cup. The 2023 and 2024 confederation champions are pending.

Al Ahly of Egypt and Wydad Casablanca of Morocco are the confirmed representatives of Africa for the Club World Cup 2025 thanks to the titles of 2021, 2022 and in this edition of the Champions Cup they are also in the final, so the ranking must be used to define the third guest. The 2024 ticket is still pending.

In the case of Oceania, the champion from 2021 to 2024 that is best located in the Confederation club ranking will attend. In the same way as in the previous format, the host country will have a guaranteed place.