Morocco has been rewarded by FIFA with hosting rights for the next Club World Cup in February.
semifinals in Qatar, the country will now stage the next global soccer event in six weeks' time, FIFA’s ruling council decided.
Wydad won Africa’s Champions League last season and also the Moroccan league. The place FIFA reserves for the host nation’s domestic champion should revert to league runner-up Raja. Both teams are based in Casablanca, where the 67,000-seat Stade Mohammed V is the likely venue for some of the eight Club World Cup games.
Only European and South American teams have won the Club World Cup since it was revived in the current format in 2005. A planned inaugural edition in 2021 in China was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, though no tournament format had been agreed nor broadcasters or sponsors signed.
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