Club World Cup Draws and FIFA's 2025 Agenda?

Many people are curious to know why FIFA in all its wisdom is seeking to expand the Club World Cup at a time when there has been agitations from clubs and players alike for a reduced fixtures in the playing calendar. This is to allow players recuperate, have enough time for leisure and family. This call seems not to resonate with the sports world governing body.

FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP 2025 TROPHY

From all that we as soccer fans have gathered, it was expanded to be an all inclusive competition, becoming more competitive and rewarding for both club and the game in itself. This is a valid reason of course. We are hoping that the club and players are able to manage this situation to not affect the participants, players mainly negatively.

As fans and football enthusiasts, we want an unending entertainment as long as those that are meant to entertain us are happy while at it. So the expanded edition has been slated to hold between Sunday 15th June 2025 to 13th July 2025 for twenty nine days. The event promises to be engaging and entertaining with the likes of football world greats and superstars Messi, Neymar and Mbappe making appearance.

CWC TROPHY UNVEILING

A total of thirty two teams have been drawn to a group of eight with four teams in each group to play three match group games. The FIFA Club World Cup games draw was done yesterday, 6th December 2024 with Infantino revealing the new look of the tourney's trophy.

FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Draw and Grouping is listed below

Group A

Palmeiras

FC Porto

Al Ahly

Inter Miami

Group B

Paris St-Germain

Atletico Madrid

Botafogo

Seattle Sounders

Group C

Bayern Munich

Auckland City

Boca Juniors

Benfica

Group D

Flamengo

Esperance Sportive de Tunisie

Chelsea

Club Leon

Group E

River Plate

Urawa Red Diamonds

Monterrey

Inter Milan

Group F

Fluminense

Borussia Dortmund

Ulsan

Memelodi Sundowns

Group H

Manchester City

Wydad

Al Ain

Juventus

Group H

Real Madrid

Al Hilal

Pachuca

Salzburg

I will be posting fixtures for the tournament in my subsequent posts where I will be talking about my favourites from each group and my thoughts on possible winners at the tournament.