Expanded FIFA Club World Cup: Tournament News & General Discussion [R]

wow, if that's correct it would be a huge step back
would mean infantino seriously miscalculated the whole thing. but let's wait on official word before we start bashing him (again)

 

Its a significant amount for non-UEFA clubs. For e.g. the winners of the Copa Sudamericana won USD 6 million. E.g.2 the winners of Bolivia's Apertura championship play the winners of the Clausura, and the grand winners of the year earn USD 1 million.

But yeah... its peanuts for big UEFA clubs. Below average what they get for playing a single match, and here we are talking about playing around 5-7 matches.

 

FIFA is always making up the rules as/when then need those, nothing new and nothing to be upset about. just FIFA

with old rules half od 2026 stadiums wouldn'd have been even considered to host, just to name the most obvious thing!

 

Sure, but this last-minute rule making seems to be getting worse. It's one thing to, say, decide on a seeding criteria a week before a WC draw, but now they are deciding which teams should partake after the qualifying is fully completed.

That's going from just annoying to full on corruption.

 

they evolved from coruption to mafia like organisation. arrogance came on the top and it is only getting worse.
as long as infantino is there there is no hope and I have strong feeling the next one will be even worse, even though that is hard to imagine.

 

What is their claim to be involved based on?

 

Thanks. I'm not sure about how the common ownership works but I thought there was an exception for the two club per nation limit if more than two clubs qualified as continental Champions (which effectively means it doesn't apply to CONCACAF, AFC or CAF).

 

I love how his African League project collapsed although they said it is coming back next year. Yeah right.

I hope CWC follows AFL's footsteps.

 

without going into discussions about africa, as with anything new I'd like to see the CWC first before I make any judgement

I also think we have far too many competitions and too many games, no doubt about that, and CWC currently looks like quite a mess, but wanna see it first and make my own picture about it.

 

Yep, quite the mess indeed. FIFA seem totally behind schedule in preparing and promoting it also. No schedule, no news on tickets sales, etc. About all we know is what the trophy looks like (who cares?).
For e.g. If you go to the official website for this competition, they have the match schedule of the other CWC. i.e. the 7-team version. No joke! Go here, scroll down a bit and click "match schedule" FIFA Club World Cup 2025™

I normally take a wait-and-see approach too with something new, but when we have so many games already and multiple club WCs to the point that even FIFA themselves mix them up, it makes it difficult to keep an open mind

 

Now NT football is out of the way four four months - as far as guaranteed player release by clubs is concerned anyway - I hope more and more information is released, probably around the draw on Thursday.

 

and all that with red card after half a minute! quite unbelievable!

23 million for the win and simmilar ammount for the CWC at least …. someone is very happy in rio right now

 

btw, brazil with four teams, mexico with three, noone else with more than two

brazil now with six libertadores titles in a row, won all finals played in a single match