Drafting. – FIFA announced on February 14 that Saudi Arabia will host the 2023 Club World Cup, which will take place in December of this year. The leading soccer organization released this news after a meeting of the Council in the last hours, where the future of the contest of the champion teams of each confederation was decided.
Real Madrid, the defending champions, beat Al-Hilal, a club from Saudi Arabia, in a thrilling final on February 11, with a score of 5-3. This will be the first major FIFA event to be held in the Arab country, which has not hosted a tournament of such importance since the King Fahd Cup, which became the Confederations Cup.
FIFA reported that the 2023 Club World Cup will be played in Saudi Arabia from December 12 to 22, marking the first time in three years that it will take place in the same year and not the next. The 2019 edition was the last to be held in December, while those of 2020, 2021 and 2022 were held the following year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
