FIFA Club World Cup 2025: All You Need to Know About the Inaugural Expanded Tournament
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FIFA Club World Cup 2025: All You Need to Know About the Inaugural Expanded Tournament
FIFA Club World Cup 2025: All You Need to Know About the Inaugural Expanded Tournament The FIFA Club World Cup 2025 marks a monumental shift in intercontinental club football, transforming from its previous annual, seven-team format into a grand 32-team spectacle. Hosted across the United States from June 14 to July 13, 2025, this revamped tournament promises a thrilling month of action, culminating in the final at MetLife Stadium in New York New Jersey. Tournament Format and Key Dates The expanded FIFA Club World Cup features a structure similar to recent FIFA World Cups, with 32 teams divided into eight groups of four. Each team plays a single-game round-robin within their group, and the top two from each group advance to a direct single-match knockout stage, starting from the Round of 16 through to the final. Notably, there will be no third-place play-off. Key Dates: Group Stage: June 14 - June 26, 2025 Round of 16: June 28 - July 1, 2025 Quarter-finals: July 4 - July 5, 2025 Semi-finals: Jul…