The final yesterday Friday at Saudi Arabia in between City of Manchester and Fluminense finish the World Cup format Club World Cup created by FIFA in the year 2000 and which has been held annually since 2005. A tournament where real Madrid This is the club that has won the most times, five in total, and which the City of Auckland of New Zealand This is the team with the most presence, a total of 11 in all editions. He City of Manchester of Guardiola closes the page as reigning champions and Barcelona is the second club with the most titles, up to three in 2009, 2011 and 2015.
A format that since 2005 has replaced the previous one Intercontinental Cup and which now paves the way for the new Club World Cup to be held in the summer of 2025 in USAa year before the World Cup will be held in this country, along with Mexico and Canada.
The event will start on June 15, 2025 and will last for almost a month as the final will be held on July 13. In total, 32 will participate in this new format of the competition, and of which twelve of them will match UEFA. Four of these twelve will win the last four editions of the Champions League. Situation that allows real Madrid participate as the champion of the 2022 edition.
Six teams will come from CONMEBOL, four from AFC, 4 from CAF, 4 from Concacaf and one from OFC. In all of them except OFC, as in UEFA, the last four champions of the continental tournaments will enter. The host country’s club is added to all of them.
The criteria for other clubs will be the sporting results in their continental club competitions. In the case of Europe, in the Champions League, in addition to the historical standard since the existence of UEFA.
This means that there are currently eight clubs according to UEFA, as recently announced by UEFA. It is, with Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, PSG, Porto, Benfica and Chelsea. Barcelona is among the eight teams that can opt for those four places by ranking or winning the Champions League.
The Intercontinental Cup returns
This farewell to the Mundialito not only means the new format of the Competition, but also the launch of a new competition that will be called Intercontinental Cup, as is traditional, and in December 2024 they will play the last two games. A preliminary round on December 14 where the winner will play against the winner of UEFA Champions League 2024.
In this new competition, as is the case in the current Club Mundialito, all the champions of the main club competitions of the confederations will participate and end in a final in a neutral place between the winner of UEFA Champions League and the winner of an intercontinental tie between clubs of other confederations.
This Intercontinental Cup FIFA It will consist of the following stages. On the one hand there is phase A consisting of two rounds. In the first round, the winners of the AFC (Asian Confederation) Champions League or the winners of the CAF (African Confederation) Champions League will play in their stadium against the winners of the OFC (Oceania Confederation) Champions League. The winners of this round will go on to play the winners of the AFC Champions League or the winners of the CAF Champions League in the final round. In the first edition, the identity of the AFC or CAF team in the first round will be determined by a draw and the hosting rights of the first round and the final round will be shared between the respective AFC and CAF teams. CAF, so each team will play one match in its stadium. From then on, the rights to organize the first round and the final round will alternate each year.
And then there is phase B. Here, the winners of the Concacaf Champions Cup (Central America, North America and the Caribbean) will play against the winners of the CONMEBOL Libertadores in a single match at the stadium of one of the clubs. The host of the first edition will be determined by lottery and hosting rights will rotate annually thereafter.
The winners of the two previous stages will face each other in the days leading up to the final, at the same neutral venue that hosts the final. It is in a semifinal that will be held on December 14. And the winner will face the champion of UEFA Champions League at the same neutral headquarters on December 18.
Source: La Verdad
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