00:00 Well, in 2025 we will have a new club competition, a competition which will crown the world champion
00:10 of the club, which is the best club in the world officially, with a title and a trophy
00:15 delivered by FIFA.
00:17 This new competition will be called Mundial de Clubes in Spanish and it will take place
00:23 in the United States of America from the 15th of June to the 13th of July 2025.
00:32 An exciting summer in the United States.
00:35 And the format will be, well, the format that is well known is the World Cup format, so
00:40 to say.
00:41 32 teams, the 32 best clubs in the world, divided in eight groups of four, and then
00:48 the two winners of the groups qualify for the knockout stage round of 16, quarter-final,
00:54 semi-final and the great final on the 15th of July, where?
01:00 Somewhere in the United States.
01:02 Well, what is important is that the clubs who qualify for this new competition will
01:10 qualify all on sporting merits, so it's an open competition based on sporting merits.
01:14 Now, who qualifies?
01:15 Well, first of all, we will have 12 Europeans, 6 South Americans, 4 from the other continents,
01:20 one from Oceania and one representing the host country, the United States of America.
01:27 These clubs qualify, first of all, by winning the continental competitions, so the Copa
01:33 Libertadores, the Champions League winners and so on, of all the continents, they qualify.
01:40 The remaining teams qualify through a specific ranking which is established by FIFA and as
01:47 far as the European teams, which are eight, it's a UEFA ranking that the clubs know based
01:55 on the Champions League results of the last four years, so some clubs can already celebrate
02:01 because they qualified, not just because they won the Champions League or the Copa Libertadores
02:05 or the African, Asian or CONCACAF Champions League, but also because they are based on
02:14 their ranking already in the competition, so congratulations to all the teams who are
02:19 already in the competition.
02:21 Well, as well, a new competition for clubs on a yearly basis to strengthen club competitions
02:32 around the world, so the champions of the different confederations will play on their
02:36 home ground first, South America against North America, Asia against Africa, with Oceania
02:43 against one of those, who will qualify for a playoff match, for a challenger match, so
02:48 to say, to challenge the champion of Europe and these two playoff matches, the playoff
02:55 match and the final, the grand final, will take place in December of '24, 14 December,
03:01 playoff, 18 December, the grand final between the European champion of the Champions League
03:09 and the champion of the rest of the world, an exciting few games, an exciting competition
03:19 for clubs, which again is there to boost club competitions all over the world in the years
03:25 between and waiting for the new Mundial de Clubes.
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