This is how the 2025 Club World Cup will unfold – 2024-04-12 02:33:00

The elimination of Inter Miami from the Concacaf Champions Cup not only saddened the management of the American team and its fans, but also FIFA and the organizers of the first Club World Cup with 32 teams, since Lionel Messi will be the great absentee from the tournament.

It is important to remember that for the 2024 edition, which will take place between December 8 and 18 at a venue yet to be defined, FIFA determined that the format of the international tournament will be like the remembered Intercontinental Cup, positioning the Champions League champion. League in the final.

The winner of the Copa Libertadores will directly go to the semifinals and will have to play a single match against the winner between the Concacaf champion and the representatives of Africa or Asia to define the second finalist.

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It will be in 2025 when the Club World Cup will begin to be played again, however with a renewed format, with more teams and that will be held every four years.

Details of the 2025 Club World Cup

The United States will host the 2025 Club World Cup to be played between June 15 and July 13with a very different format than usual, with the presence of 32 teams from the six continental confederations.

So far there are 21 clubs that have already assured their presence next year. These are:

• Al Ahly (Egypt) – CAF Champions League champions in 2020/21 and 2022/23.
• Wydad (Morocco) – 2021/22 CAF Champions League Champion.
• Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia) – 2021 AFC Champions League Champion.
• Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan) – 2022 AFC Champions League Champion.
• Chelsea (England) – 2020/21 UEFA Champions League Champion.
• Real Madrid (Spain) – 2021/22 UEFA Champions League Champion.
• Manchester City (England) – UEFA Champions League Champion 2022/23.
• Bayern Munich (Alemania) – UEFA ranking.
• Paris Saint-Germain (Francia) – Ranking UEFA.
• Inter Milan (Italia) – Ranking UEFAPorto (Portugal) – Ranking UEFA.
• Benfica (Portugal) – Ranking UEFA.
• Borussia Dortmund (Germany) – UEFA Ranking.
• Juventus (Italia) – Ranking UEFA.
• Monterrey (Mexico) – Concacaf Champions Cup 2021.
• Seattle Sounders (United States) – Concacaf Champions Cup 2022.
• Club León (Mexico) – Concacaf Champions Cup 2023.
• Auckland City (Nueva Zelanda) – Ranking OFC.
• Palmeiras (Brazil) – Conmebol Libertadores 2021 Championship.
• Flamengo (Brazil) – Conmebol Libertadores Champion 2022.
• Fluminense (Brazil) – Conmebol Libertadores Champion 2023.

The format will have an initial phase of eight groups of four teams that will play all against all in a single match and the first two will advance to the round of 16, where a direct elimination definition will begin until the final. Unlike other international tournaments, this time there will be no match for third place.

In the case of Concacaf They still have a quota to define, which will go to the winner of this year’s Concachampions, the tournament where Inter Miami and Messi were beaten in the quarterfinals by Rayados de Monterrey.