News: Club World Cup to Expand; Confederations Cup to End

Yall ain't cosigning this absolutely ridiculous plan, are you

This really would be absolutely terrible, please don't support the lunacy. It's already a tourney of 1000 teams, this wouldn't be expansion, it would be redundancy.

Do you really wanna see a non uefa CL champion not take the CL seriously since they're already qualified to the CWC. Do you really wanna see teams that are completely different from the one who won their CL, in the CWC. Do you wanna see a player qualify with 2 teams, having to play with the latter, with which was a less memorable run

Imagine Messi wins the CL with Barca in a memorable and historic last hurrah. Then the next year he wins it again as a sub with Monaco. He'll go to the CWC with Monaco, not Barca. Just ridiculous.

Imagine America wins the CCL, then the next year is in the CCL again, but prioritises the league because the CWC ticket is already punched. Leading to a much lesser team winning it all.

Think, guys. This plan is a disgrace to club football. Rally against it.

 

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Intercontinental Cup. Coming back?

 

I agree. Imagine if there was a domestic champion, Champions League winner, and Club World Cup winner that were three clubs from the same country. What I might like is if FIFA threatens to make a big summer Club World Cup and the confederations (especially UEFA) make a deal to offer FIFA some of the Champions League revenue in exchange for FIFA not expanding the Club World Cup.

 

Nope, they're talking about the real thing, between the Champions and the Libertadores winner. One game.

The other cup is in addition to it. Read again.

 

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Damn I thought that it was almost a certainty that they were headed in this direction, especially with the league format with pro/rel that some of the confederations are considering adopting for international play.

 

Having a tournament every two years (along with the qualifiers) helps with FIFA rankings.

 

Sweet Lord. Is there some sort of madness virus that affects those confederations? Why are all of them expanding? What the fuk? Seriously? Yes, there is parity in CAF, they could accommodate 32-team tournament as there are many contenders, much more than in other confeds, but this is crazy.

 

And FIFA rankings don't mean jack-shit except 6 months before a World cup.

Anyway, I'm surprised about the move to June-July. Wasn't the issue always weather? How are they going to deal with that, especially if any of the North Saharan countries are hosting?

 

They matter in the draws for qualifying. For Africa's Group Stage, the bottom Pot 1 team and the top Pot 2 team were consecutive, the bottom Pot 2 team and the top Pot 3 team were consecutive, and the bottom Pot 3 team and top Pot 4 team had one team in between. If Cameroon was one spot higher, the group with Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Zambia would have been impossible.

 

It shouldn't be an issue - Egyptian league ended last week, in mid-July, so it's playable. Algerian league ended in mid June. They (North Africa teams) regularly play CAF Champions League during June and July. Western Africa has leagues played during summer (Angola - OK, that's southern country , Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana).

Matches could be played later than usual (first match at 20:00 instead 17:00 hrs) to solve high temperatures issue but that would mean that some matches would be played simultaneously (three matches a day).

P.S. Head of Guinean FA (Guinea to host CAN 2023) rejected playing in summer slot due to rain season there after FIFA (or CAF) proposed them to do it as WC would be played in late 2022, month or two before 2023 CAN would start.

It will be interesting to follow this.

 

I'm not proposing getting rid of the ACN. I just wish they had it once every 4 years. I'm even fine with it being 24 teams and then those results would still influence seeding for the WC qualifying.

 

Yeah, temperatures usually cool off alot at night in desert regions. While they could play every match at night, realistically that isn't gonna happen (whereas I'm guessing the CAF CL games are played under the lights(?)).

 

Earliest kick-off this season was 18:00 local on 9 July. During Ramadan they kick-off at 23:00 or 00:00 or even 01:00. It is likely that CAN would be played during Ramadan at some point.

Some crazy schedule could work: 18:00, 20:15, 22:30.

Or, God forbid, they could go with 8 groups of 3 teams, two groups per day, group stage lasts same as today, 12 days. Tournament would last 5-6 days longer because of round of 16.

 

I see the African Cup a lot like I do the Gold Cup.
It is the largest stage some of those small teams will ever be on.
For some of those teams it is like their "World Cup".
I am fine with it being every two years. Those smaller team supporters need something to look forward to.

 

Yeah, well, not sure the Gold Cup played before the WC year achieves any of that. I bet most people in French Guinea, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Curacao, etc. just support France or the Netherlands like its their own country. The 'extra' Gold Cup is just an excuse to schedule another Mexico v USA money-maker, imo.

You have a valid point for people in the CAF region though. But, damn - a 24 team tournament takes significantly longer to play than a 16-team tournament. OTOH, in practice its not going to be the same group of teams that goes deep into the tournament every time.

Not until around 2045.

 

Fair enough. Although I think to justify the usefulness of a continental tournament every 2 years , scale (population) matters. There are several countries in Africa with pretty big football-loving populations that don't have a decent chance of qualifying for a WC. So I can see the justification there. In CONCACAF? Not so much.