FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced in Doha yesterday that the Club World Cup will resume in 2025 (held every four years) with a new format of 32 clubs, similar to the World Cup for national teams, filling a vacancy left open at the end of the year. Confederations Cup.
But he may have been hasty, because the European Clubs Association (ECA) has not yet given a positive opinion of the competition, and this is contrary to what Infantino expected after the European Clubs Association meeting that was held last Friday, also in Doha.
In 2021, the Club World Cup was scheduled to be held in China with 24 participants, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now FIFA has decided to change this format, adding eight more teams. The announcement of the World Cup with 32 clubs was followed by several news reports that the main sharks of European football had rejected Infantino’s proposal and the new format, which the FIFA captain already knew and did not prevent him from implementing yesterday’s announcement. .
FIFA also confirmed that the next Club World Cup (currently with only seven) will be held in Morocco in February, and announced the creation of two new tournaments for women: the Club World Cup and the Futsal World Cup.
