The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup NEW Format EXPLAINED 

I’m also a Palmeiras supporter and it was surprising seeing a video in English with a guy wearing my team’s jacket hahaha Nice content!

1 crucial point. What it can do is maybe put some mls talents on the spotlight. It can lead to some of our players getting hyped more and getting moves to europe sooner. This could be a good thing as this could maybe help us develop a world class player. We’ve seen it in the wc where 1 big talent like a james Rodrigues performs world class and goes crazy so many big clubs chase him after that. We could see it with a young mls player

My club is the New York Red Bulls. But I don’t stress about them too much. I do get disappointed when they fail to win MLS Cup every year and that no one shows up to the games.

Signing the register from South Africa for Mamelodi Sundowns, who have recently qualified for the Club World Cup. Hoping to see them in action against my other club, Man City

I'm a Seattle Sounders fan. As one of only two or three MLS teams to qualify, the pressure will be on to field a competitive team, especially with Lodeiro leaving and stalwarts like Paulo, Frei, Ruidiaz, Morris, and the Roldan brothers only getting older. This club will not be anywhere near the same one that won CCL by the time this tournament occurs, and they will not go on a dark horse run unless they get serious about recruiting high-quality international players and poaching more promising young talent like they managed to do with Leo Chu. If MLS wants to make your headline a reality, they need to give us the salary flexibility to make Seattle an appealing destination not just for good players but also for good clubs looking to loan guys out. But realistically, if your headline comes true, it will be the part that comes after '2025.' We simply don't have the quantity or quality of qualifying teams to make a deep run feasible in the next year and a half, as much as I obviously wish that weren't the case.

Starting watching premier league last year and Aston Villa really caught my eye. Hoping they can grab a UCL spot this year!

MLS will never get to the FIFA Club World Cup final if they don’t change their ways

If Inter Miami qualified and made a semi final or further run, it would probably help a ton in America and globally for the MLS. All the other MLS teams will get bodied tho.

It makes me wonder. If this does work and if it becomes more prestige than the world cup, does this incentivize some world class South American soccer players to play in their Conmebol club knowing they have a chance to qualifying the club world cup? Commebol club team were as strong as the euro league back in the 50's through the mid 80's/early 90's.

i believe the reason for the return of the intercontinental cup is nostalgia. here in south america, specially in argentina, the intercontinental cup is missed and almost nobody likes the formats of the club world cup. also most of us do not like the new format of the intercontinental cuo that FIFA proposes. we only want a two leg match between the European and South American champions, we dont want asia or africa involved.

I’m excited about this tournament ❤ Merry Christmas Tac 🎅🎅🎅💋

MLS has NO status with FIFA without USSF designation as the U.S. D1 league. USSF should pull MLS's D1 status and give it to the USL.

I recently (just now) decided to become a Roma fan. We’re winning it all this year

The reason for the Intercontinental Cup is very simple, clubs can continue to compete for Sextuples in Europe

Watch Real Madrid take it all as always

Very good video 👍

I agree. It’s crazy mls is not trying to capitalize on this opportunity! Clubs should be allowed to spend however much they want. Who cares about parody

San Jose Earthquakes. If we had an owner who wanted to win things would be very different.

My club is santos Laguna in the liga mx and boy has I been hard being a santos fan

Seattle sounders. i was at the first game in 09 when i was 10. i was at the CCL final when we beat pumas 3-0 when i was 24. sad to see lodeiro go. morris is overhyped. christian roldan is our best all around player. Joao paulo is awesome. Raul ruidiaz needs to not be injured.

It all depends if Europe will take this serious

As someone pretty new to the sport, I'm a bit surprised by the lack of hype around the Club World Cup. I understand having these competitions every year for its history hasn't brought the anticipation of the actual World Cup, but the new format seems cool. Historically the country World Cup is the most popular sporting event in the world, but we don't even know the host cities yet for 2025 meanwhile the full schedule is out for the event that is 1 year later. Also, with all else equal, I would be more excited to see the same teams I watch throughout the season compete worldwide since I would be more familiar with the players and narratives. Overall, I'm looking forward to this cycle of World Cups with Women's '27 too

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Ac Millan baby!!!!!!! Been a Millan fan and when pullisic came to them I became even more of a fan!!!!

Newcastle united!! I've been a fan since the movie Goal came out.

Manchester United. Yes generic answer but Rooney celebrating at old trafford was the earliest memory I have of soccer in life and that passion he had was the first I remember from any sports athlete

Tac I need the stream addressing USSFs decision

My favorite football club is Aston Villa, kinda odd for someone in the US, but it us what it is.

Please, take off this jacket. Palmeiras doesn't have the club's World Cup. Here is Flamengo 🔴⚫

I think Alnassr will qualify to the CWC because they are the second strongest team in asia the first one is Alhilal which already qualify so what do you think 🤔

ATX!!!!

MLS won’t change its stand on anything until they are FORCED to, i.e. get their asses whooped on television and the sports reporters hammer Don Garber on everything he’s doing wrong after the said ass whooping.

Club America Vs Real Madrid would be a dream match up to watch. LAFC or other MLS teams have no chance on reaching the final

Super interesting. With the format, and it being every 4 years, I could see UEFA, and maybe fans, take it seriously.

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Why do you say that USMNT is more important than MLS to you? They should be equally important because you cannot develop the NT properly if you have a weak league, unless you export most of your NT squad to better leagues, which sadly far too many countries outside Europe have done for years. One other thing the expanded Club WC will hopefully do is raise the importance of the Concacaf Champions Cup to MLS clubs and fans.

just one problem. Majority of the footbol fan base favors European footbol over others especially not caring about what goes on elsewhere outside of Europe regarding footbol Whats worse is majority teams are Europeans which same as countries I find it unfair. I get it that European footbol is where it start, but at the same time, it shouldnt even be completely European takeover as expected we will see all European clubs qualifying while everyone else doesnt and its literally a UEFA World Cup, same as with countries with its being UEFA Euro world Cup

Honestly I’m not a fan of this new format. It was fine as a yearly tournament. It needed better promoting and a better format. This just adds too many more matches for the clubs that would play in it. If it was straight knockout like a World Champions League type where you lose you’re out

Im excited for the new format. Really stupid to bring back the intercontinental championship after getting away with the format change. A big selling point is that it wasnt every year!

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Marking a register for a team from South Africa called Mamelodi Sundowns, if you are here like this comment🤭

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From an English/British/European perspective...I'm going to say that I will probably watch this new tournament and support the English teams involved but that the selection/qualification process for this is an utter joke. Yes, Chelsea won the Champions League back in 2021...since then they have completely collapsed, aren't even competiting in any European competition this season and are unlikely to compete in European competition next season, certainly not the Champions League. They shouldn't be anywhere near this sort of tournament and so most European fans will continue to not take this sort of tournament seriously. I have no idea how clubs qualify for this "ranking pathway" and neither do most European fans. You want 12 UEFA clubs in this competition? Here's how you do it: 2024/25 Champions League. That also will have a new format, OK fine. Quarter finalists from that competition qualify for this one. That competition will also have a seeding system for the knockout stages based on group stage performance so let's take advantage of that. Four highest seeds that don't make the quarter finals qualify for this tournament as well. Similar deal for the other continents.

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What it'll show is how bad MLS teams are compared to teams from other regions.

Why is the gold cup during the club world cup. Bruh

In less than a decade this will supercede the Uefa champions league and with the rise of the saudi league, and the spark messi is bringing the mls, we could see parity arise outside of the traditional powerhouse of uefa. Probably the most 200 iq move fifa could do right now and very good for the game going forward.

More games more injuries

Only about money

So much potential in the new format of fifa club wc. Every 4 year😱🔥. Now the importance and valuable of this trophy will increase like fifa worldcup. But clearly a dumb move for bringing back intercontinental cup.

ussf is bae

mls isn't even competible against Saudi teams, what makes you think it will be in a mayor tournament. 😒

Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea

Real Madrid is my fav club

PSG!

Arriba los Tigres!

The point is to bring about a balance of power. Now let me ask ..U know that since 2013 UEFA has Dominated this competition with a European team winning it since then with Man City being the most recent champions..U really think that if COMEBOL had continued their success with that Corinthians victory over Chelsea Till now winning the tournament. Do you really think that the Champions league would be seen as a Equal to the Copa lebertadores 🤔😒😒.. The answer is No...The Copa lebertadores champion won't need to even bost of their superiority because the Stats will speak for them. The club world cup isn't meant to produce the best in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, Noth America or Oceania...No it's to know the best team in the world and it's not something you just win...u actually have to dominate a continent before you qualify for this tournament. So don't say it like the standards can change. This club world cup might actually be the biggest treat the U champions League will face. But to be honest... based on the numerical Advantage and And quality Disparity it's most likely that a European team will win it. So that just shows their pedegry as a Confederation but don't underestimate the others. Football is becoming more Global and The balance of power is becoming more... how should I say this.."BALANCE" as there is more even distribution of quality around the world and this new format of the Club world cup will be what ignites the fames to a new Era of football. So let's just sit back and enjoy the show ❤🥰🥰

Which football club tries to kill me? The Mighty Arsenal.

Barça!

It will not flop at all, Friendlies are already packed to the max with these European and now that they’ll be a champion at the end, it’ll get even more attention

Mamelodi Sundowns fc

I dont watch the mls because I don’t have a team to support. Without promotion and relegation if a team comes to my state (Arizona) it will destroy my USL team (Phoenix Rising). So why watch mls? I don’t like soccer enough to just watch random mls games. The only reason I watch foreign leagues is to support specific teams I follow. I don’t see that changing even if mls gets better.

they should of made this 16 teams 😂

No one will respect this, is a complete mess that will screw players fitness, players contracts (due to the awkwardness of date placement) and it's ultimately just a big cash grab with no coincidence that it's being held in the US, a place where sports are businesses and shows before being sports. Shame.

My favorite club is Chelsea FC.

Juve amore mio 🤍🖤

It’s the Flat Earth World Cup

F.C Internazionale, supporter @ San Siro for 15 years.

They should just have the cup with the same format. BUT have the lowest tier team host.

Barcelona for life

I just dont see UEFA teams treating this competition as nothing more than a friendly pre season tournament. And they will still win it every time.

chelseaa

I go for Cruz Azul and trust me. The club president seems like he doesn't know what he's doing despite that he wants change, signings being late, sporting director doesn't get a chance to work and being blamed and barely give accademy players a chance. But I still love my club. ARRIBA LA MAQUINA and merry Christmas, Tac from an El Tri fan. 🇲🇽🐇🚂⬜️🟦⚽️

The problem is that there will be too many games. FIFA changed the format not because they wanted to make the competition relevant, they just wanted MORE MONEY. Clubs don't want to put the effort that should be put into the League and Champions League into this crap. I prefer that one-off game for the CL winner.

Will the FIFA Club World Cup surpass the UEFA Champions League??????... The answer to this question is simple, the Club World Cup "WILL" become the number one club completion, surpassing the European Champions League, and for one very good reason. In fact, it would already be the premier international club competition if it had done what it should have done in the first place i.e.... STAY IN ITS LANE!!! What makes the FIFA World Cup so delicious has always been the fact that it happens so infrequently, by mirroring its big brother, it will reap similar reward. The European International Champions League cannot hope to compete with its global equivalent once FIFA stops trying to compete with it on a year-to-year basis. Once upon a time, the English FA Cup used to be the most sought-after trophy, even more important than winning the league. Why?... Because once upon a time (unless it happened to be a World Cup year) it was the only live football game you would see on television. That made it soooo special to both players and fans alike. The two main TV networks would give it priority programming starting from early in the day. Nowadays, with so much live football on TV, nobody really cares that much about it, certainly not right up there at the EPL level. The FIFA World Cup on the other hand has not lost any of its appeal in the face of so much live football. And it never will. That four-year wait is always worth the wait and the FIFA Club World Cup on a four-year cycle will reap the benefit of this as well. SIDE NOTE: Had FIFA Implemented this format when it first had the idea, it would have been even more interesting and garnered even more interest, because back then there was a lot more parity between the leagues, certainly more parity between the European and South American Leagues. In fact, if the history of the Intercontinental Cup is any indication, the South American Clubs would most likely have come out on top. And Africa would also have carried much more weight because most of its best and brightest players (like Cameroon Legend Roger Milla) would still have been playing for African clubs and no doubt would have viewed the tournament as the best way to get snapped up by bigger clubs.

Go Ahly ❤️ unrealistic they win it so Go liverpool ❤️🔥

MLS is the most competitive league in the world but when compared to others? They need more money

Barca

Real Madrid or Man city can win the hole thing with their U-17 players ........chelsea, porto and benfica and seattle and some team from new zealand LOL ..if you understand how football works you will already knows this format will Flop ..and usa football (soccer) wont achieve nothing from this tournament

So porto and benfica are better than Liverpool, really, I don't want Liverpool in it. YnwA.

Why so many UEFA teams

Yeah not gonna watch this nearly half the teams are from Europe It could have been 5-Africa 5-Asia 5-North America 6-South America 6-Europe 4-Oceana plus host nation

100% I'm an MLS hater and if you can convince me the MLS clubs can compete with the big boys and is a real league then I'll start following and going to my local games.

They need to allow USL play in the CWC as they already are thinking about adding Promotion and Relegation

PSG lol

The best teams wont play their best players for this. It's already too many games for them. Look at the injuries we've been seeing in Europe this year alone. We need to go back to less, higher quality matches instead of this money grubbing calendar we have now.

Bayern Munich 👑🏆x6

Bayern München will win it ❤

This is very unfair on the players… they need the summer or rest. They are already played too much. This is taking the piss

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I still don’t take the FIFA Club World Cup seriously.

I don’t think any MLS team will have any success in this competition. They will probably get destroyed every game

Bro all this is is the superleague that the fans boycotted

Seattle Sounder doesn’t allow their teams to play abroad. They have no experience playing against big teams in uncomfortable conditions. Seattle Sounders lost to an Egyptian team. The MLS teams are gonna get smoked.

There have been many attempts to make a "world club cup". This is one of those in the 50´s ... Mundialito de Clubes ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Club_World_Cup ).