The current format of the Club World Cup will disappear and will no longer be played with 7 teams to go to contend with 32. The FIFA have decided to start play the tournament with that amount from 2025.
He FIFA Council announced that the current format could be maintained for the 2023 and 2024 editions, and that for the next one it will begin to be played with 32 teams. In addition, another of the changes that it will have will be the date: It will be played in the middle of the year between the months of June and July.
by the side of South America, it is known that it will have 6 seats but still remains that CONMEBOL confirms how the teams will qualify for the Club World Cupsince, for now, the only one who gets the ticket to play the contest is the champion of the Copa Libertadores.
Something very similar happens in Europe because the only one who has a guaranteed place is the champion of the Champions League. Therefore, Other teams from the most important cup at club level could appear from the old continent or teams from the Europa League or the Conference League could even participate.
The distribution of the 32 places will be the following:
- UEFA: 12
- CONMEBOL: 6
- AFC (Asia): 4
- CAF (Africa): 4
- CONCACAF: 4
- OFC (Oceania): 1
- Host country: 1
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