Fifa chief announces plans for 32-team Club World Cup

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DOHA - Fifa chief Gianni Infantino announced plans on Friday for a 32-team Club World Cup from 2025, despite reported opposition from Europe’s biggest clubs. An expansion of the competition has long been a pet project of Infantino’s. A 24-team event, featuring...

Reports in the British media this week said European clubs had rejected Fifa’s proposal to launch the new-look competition.It said in a statement that despite an “understanding” with Fifa that there would be “a joint negotiation of the international match calendar” at the Fifa Congress in March 2023 “these decisions were taken unilaterally without seriously consulting, let alone agreeing, with the players”.

The plans are for an expanded tournament to be held every four years instead of annually, as is the case for the current seven-team event. “It will be slightly longer because there will be 32 teams but they will be the best teams in the world who will be invited to participate.”Infantino said the next Club World Cup, in its current format, would take place in Morocco from Feb 1 to 11, 2023.

 

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