FIFA reforms the Club World Cup and grows competitions

The FIFA renew your Club World Cup and makes a great addition. The intentions of covering more territories with powers is a wish of the president’s era Gianni Infantino applied beyond the world Cup.

The project is that the ‘Mundialito’ of 2025 will be expanded to 32 teams and will be played every four years. Currently, only the continental champions of each of the six confederations and the champion of the host country compete.

The 2025 edition could boost the revenue of the FIFA to more than 11 billion during the corresponding business cycle.

“All details will unfold in due course. We will decide where it will take place in the coming weeks,” Infantino said.

Morocco, which organized the Club World Cup in 2013 and 2014 it will host the competition in February 2022. Moroccan football has also grown in such a way that, it managed an impressive run until the semi-final of the 2022 World Cup. The tournament is usually held in December, but it was delayed due to the World Cup in Qatar that was to be played in winter.

FIFA will also launch friendly tournaments called FIFA World Series in order to increase the chances of teams from different confederations playing each other and will take place in the March window in even numbered years.

As for the host World Cup 2030 It will be decided in 2024. Infantino has already taken the step of extending the number of participating teams to 48 in 2026, and the idea of ​​holding the maximum competition every two years has not been accepted by all the Federations in the world.

The biennial proposal also led to such a strained relationship that the UEFA and the CONMEBOL they strengthened their own ties and created last summer’s Finalissima at Wembley Stadium, where European champions and Italy faced Copa America winners Argentina.

An OpenEconomics study that focused on the macroeconomic prospects of a biennial World Cup concluded that it would produce an increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of more than $180 billion over a 16-year period, while generating 2 Millions of full-time jobs.

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