Football: Thunderous Blow for FIFA, Club World Cup threatened!
Starting in the summer of 2025, FIFA plans to launch the Club World Cup, bringing together the biggest European clubs. However, a threat of massive boycott looms on the horizon.
This new FIFA initiative aims to fill an already packed schedule. From 2025 onwards, a new competition will emerge in the summer, featuring 32 of the world’s biggest teams, including twelve European clubs, competing over the course of a month. As this competition takes shape, a serious threat looms, as reported by the British newspaper The Sun: legal action could be taken to postpone the competition.
Leagues such as the Premier League and La Liga express their dissatisfaction with this new competition, which risks further burdening players’ seasons. This opposition is supported by the players’ union, the PFA. « Football is killing its own product. Those who run the game must listen. If they don’t, then as unions, we have a responsibility to act on behalf of the players – and the legal route is the next step.
The governing bodies have had every opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue with us on this issue, but they have failed to do so. The current workload for players is unsustainable », said Maheta Molango, president of the Professional Footballers’ Association. FIFA must now respond to this growing legal pressure.
Therefore, from the summer of 2025, FIFA plans to launch the Club World Cup, bringing together the biggest European clubs. However, this initiative faces strong opposition from several major leagues, threatening a massive boycott.
