Why don't American cities bid to host the Club World Cup? Should there be a future U.S. bid?

I personally would love for the US to host the CWC. Because the host gets to send a team AND the competition is right after MLS Cup it seems like a perfect extension of that tournament. Win MLS Cup and then go play for the World Championship the following weeks. If MLS starts to win CCL then there would be 2 American clubs in the tournament. Warm weather cosmopolitan cities like LA or Miami could be good hosts. SUM does a good job promoting and finding sponsors for completely meaningless summer tournaments, why can't they do the same for an actual world championship?

 

For some reason in FM2014 BMO Field in Toronto often gets it in 2017 or thereabouts. It might have trouble with a December game but Rogers Centre could probably do it.

 

That is not the case. There is a limit of 1 club per country. In the event of a US team winning the CCL, and US subsequently hosting the edition to which it qualified, the "host" spot is replaced by the best performing non-US team in said CCL.

See 2008 FIFA Club World Cup

 

It'll probably be a logistical nightmare because it's football season... a lot of states play the high school championships in those big stadiums

 

Yeah, December is a really bad time from a US perspective. First, NFL. Second, college bowls. Third, the MLS Cup might be wrapping, like, a week before the CWC starts, and since the domestic champion gets an auto-bid, the newly-crowned and probably exhausted champion would have to turn right around and face down God knows who. Fourth, I'm not sure US Soccer wants anything to do with a FIFA bid process right now.

If it did come to pass that the US got hosting rights, it would likely come down to using whatever pair of stadiums are nearby and available. Stubhub Center and LA Coliseum, I'd wager.

 

The 2014 Club World Cup was played mostly on weekdays and Saturdays when there wouldn't be much football competition. None of the elite NCAA football teams play their bowl games until after the Club World Cup ended.

 

Even if some stadiums had the open dates, a lot of the ones with natural grass are beat to shit after 3-4 months of American Football.

 

Elite, no. But ESPN wouldn't set up half those bowl games (and make sure they all had their own time slots with no other bowl games going on at the time) if people weren't addicted to watching every single one of them. People want to see Middle Tennessee play San Jose St. in the Budget Rental Cars Bowl in a parking lot in Albuquerque? Sure, slap it on the air, why not. And if that and the CWC aired head-to-head in the US, the bowl game would win. That's the problem. Football strangles everything else. The Pro Bowl, as mocked as it is, gets ratings comparable to the World Series or NBA Finals. The MLS Cup gets strangled because there's an NFL playoff run going on. So that has to get accounted for.

 

I'm sorry, but if you don't watch at least the UCL and Liberators Cup Finals, and have no desire to see those 2 titans clash on the pitch, then I question your fandom of club football.

 

I know, but what matters is how many people are interested in both and would watch the bowl game. I would expect most people watching the bowl games don't know what the Club World Cup is. The Club World Cup gets so little attention that I don't think what it's competing with matters much.

 

The fact that it is in December really kills the idea based on other sports events and weather in most of the country.

But I think the only 2 places it would even be worth trying would be California (if you put more emphasis on the weather) or NY/Philly/DC.

Something like this I think it would come down to areas population density and popularity, for lack of a better word.

Easier to have financial success/draw more people in areas like Cali/Northeast where there already are a lot of people and are more desirable as a destination.

 

Southern California could definitely host this

 

Houston or Miami would be ideal as well.

 

Interesting that you are commenting on a thread about it then.

 

I think Miami or somewhere in Florida would be great- it could be like a Latin America/Carribean/American type event. Weather in Florida is good that time of year- and it is a reasonable distance for both the European and South American team- you might even get some fan travel, Europeans love Florida. Also December when college football has stopped and the Miami Dolphins have been eliminated from the play-offs. You use the Dolphins stadium for the final and semi-finals, the new MLS stadium (if built), or something else (Orlando?) for the lesser games. Dophins only need to evacuate for a week (2 games).

 

The Club World Cup site is determined years in advance. Could it ever be played in a stadium that wasn't owned by a soccer club? Assuming the Miami Dolphins own their stadium, would they have any reason to let somebody else use their stadium? If you were Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, wouldn't you think that your league was the most popular in the United States and not want to have a soccer tournament in one of your stadiums during the season?

 

I don't think the commissioner has any say if one or some the owners want to have a tournament in their stadiums during NFL season. I know the 2003 Women's World Cup was held in the US during NFL season (I'm not sure if NFL stadiums were used). The reason the CWC has not or will not be in the US is because it has low visibility and popularity here and thus no one sees how they could make more money here than elsewhere.

 

Women's World Cup 2003 used six stadiums, of which two had NFL teams, Philadelphia and New England. The Club World Cup has used two stadiums, so having two nearby stadiums (by the standards of a large country like the USA) that do not have NFL teams should be easy. For example, the stadiums of NCAA rivals Ohio State and Michigan could be used. The NCAA Football regular season ends before the Club World Cup starts.

 

Maybe there are other examples that would be better, but I don't think Ohio State and Michigan would be a good one. The International Champions Cup, at which gate receipts are the main objective, doesn't mind playing on a field as narrow as Michigan Stadium, but I'd be surprised to see FIFA do it for an official event like the Club World Cup. Ohio Stadium may be almost as narrow.

 

If they were to put this competition in the United States for some reason, there is absolutely zero chance it would be contested at Michigan Stadium and Ohio Stadium.

 

Is your front lawn often the host of international events and so you know, for a fact, that you wouldn't watch the thing, or is it just that the back yard is really where it's all happening?
I don't have a front lawn these days, but I think back to when I did and I don't know that the play would be very good, it was kind of small and full of trees. Still, I'd probably have watched. Just to make sure they weren't putting dents in the car, if nothing else.