Club World Cup 2025 in USA: Confirmed teams, format, schedule, dates for FIFA tournament with expanded field

On December 17, 2023, FIFA unveiled more details regarding the new look of the Club World Cup, with the first edition of the new competition to be contested in the United States in the summer of 2025.

The competition, which has been contested annually since 2000, will move to a four-year cycle to be played the year before the FIFA World Cup. As such, the Club World Cup has also been expanded to a larger field to accommodate the continental champions from the entirety of the previous four years, plus a few additional participants.

In its place on an annual basis will be the newly minted FIFA Intercontinental Cup, which will keep the semblance of the Club World Cup's old format along with a few tweaks. The name is taken from the defunct annual match played between the champions of Europe and South America, which was played for the last time in 2004.

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The 2025 Club World Cup will feature a 32-team field with teams from all around the globe, to be contested from June 15, 2025 to July 13, 2025. An exact schedule has yet to be determined.

The dates were worked around the international match calendar, which allows time between the end of the competition and the beginning of European domestic club seasons.

However, with North and South American leagues playing a calendar-year schedule, clubs from CONCACAF and CONMEBOL will have to sort out how to fit the competition into their fixture lists.

All but two confederations were awarded four slots.