The Premier League and La Liga champions are absent from the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup.
FIFA has changed the format of the Club World Cup, allocating 12 spots to European teams based on continental performance. To determine who qualifies, FIFA looks at the results from the 2021–22 to 2023–24 seasons of each confederation's top club competition. Confederations such as UEFA qualify their Champions League winners during this period, then fill the remaining spots through the four-year club rankings. Meanwhile, the AFC, CAF and CONCACAF each receive four spots for their champions, OFC gets one spot and the host is guaranteed at least one entry.
Messi's Inter Miami entered as a host association team.
Another important rule is that FIFA imposes a maximum of two clubs per national association (unless more than two clubs from the same country win their continental competition). This rule means that even highly ranked teams can miss out on the tournament if two fellow countrymen have qualified via continental championships. This applies to a big English club in Liverpool, as Chelsea and Man City have already secured their places due to their Champions League wins in the last four years.
Chelsea and Man City are included due to winning the Champions League.
For the European region, FIFA allocates a maximum of 12 places. These are the Champions League winners from 2021–22 to 2023–24, and allocates the remaining places using UEFA's club coefficient system, which is calculated based on performance in the Champions League. With a "poor" performance in the European arena, in recent years, it is regrettable that Barcelona has not been able to participate. In the 2020–21 season, they stopped by PSG in the round of 16 of the Champions League and continued to be unsuccessful in the Europa League in the following seasons. This result caused Barcelona to drop in the UEFA rankings, behind teams such as Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea, PSG, and Inter Milan. Therefore, despite relying on the UEFA performance rankings, Barcelona is still not eligible to participate. As for Liverpool, the "Red Brigade" is not allowed to participate because of the regulation that each country can have a maximum of 2 teams. Meanwhile, English football has had two Champions League winners participating, Chelsea and Man City.
Real Madrid are also present at the FIFA Club World Cup.
Thus, the first tournament with the participation of 32 teams, taking place in the US this summer, will not have the presence of Barca and Liverpool. The absence of the "Red Brigade" and the "Catalan giant" brings regret to fans of the king sport . Because these are the two teams with the most attractive playing style in world football at this time. The pain of the fans of the two teams above becomes even deeper when Barca's traditional rivals, the two capital teams of Madrid and Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea, are both present at this prestigious event. It is truly a pity for Barca and The Reds.
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