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It is day two at the 2025 Club World Cup with Paris Saint-Germain vs Atletico Madrid opening Group B at the Rose Bowl.
This all-European affair should be a cracker, as recently crowned European champions PSG take on one of Spain’s most consistent clubs — and both sides will harbour hopes of going all the way at this tournament.
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Clubs are allowed a squad of between 26 and 35 players for the start of the tournament, including three goalkeepers.
Complicating this is that standard player contracts in European club football run from July 1 to June 30 — in other words, ending during the middle of the Club World Cup.
So FIFA has inserted a mid-tournament registration window — June 27 to July 3 — in which teams can replace players whose deals have expired.
Clubs can also add two extra players, upping the squad limit to 37, but squad changes are capped at six for each club during the seven-day window.
From each squad, 26 players can then be named in a matchday squad: 11 starters and 15 substitutes. Five changes can then be made during each match, as well as a concussion replacement if necessary.
Extra time would then increase the limit to six, regardless of how many subs were brought on during the 90 minutes.
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In the group stage of the tournament, teams from every confederation have been kept apart — that is except for UEFA and its contingent of 12, evidenced by this match.
Four of the eight groups contain two UEFA clubs: Paris Saint-Germain and Atletico Madrid, Benfica and Bayern Munich, Juventus and Manchester City, plus Red Bull Salzburg and Real Madrid.
But no two clubs from the same country will play each other in the group stage.
Come the knockout stage, teams can play an opponent from any confederation or country — including their own.
For the World Cup lovers among us, the Club World Cup will follow a recognisable pattern.
The 32 teams have been split into eight groups of four, where they will play each other once in the group stage.
The top two teams on points (3 for a win, 1 for a draw) will go through to the knockout stage, while the bottom two clubs will be eliminated.
If clubs are level on points, then the result between the two teams will be used as the first tiebreaker to split them — not goal difference.
The knockout stage begins with the Round of 16, where the group winners will face a different group’s runner-up. The following stages should be familiar from there.
At this point, matches that are level after 90 mins will see 30 minutes of extra time split over two halves. If a match is still a draw at this point, it is penalty shootout time!
One thing you won’t see at this tournament is a third-place play-off. The defeated semi-finalists get to go straight home.
The 32 teams involved in this Club World Cup represent all six FIFA confederations. This is how they are split:
Brazil is the country with the most clubs participating, with its quartet of Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Palmeiras.
As host nation, the U.S. is the only other country providing more clubs than FIFA’s limit of two with Inter Miami, Los Angeles FC and Seattle Sounders all involved.
Here you can see all 11 host cities. It’s quite the spread.
The Club World Cup began with the opening match at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium last night, with the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey — where the 2026 World Cup final will also be held.
However, all 63 matches in this tournament will take place in the United States, whereas hosting duties for next year’s World Cup will be shared with Canada and Mexico.
The Club World Cup’s 12 host stadiums across 11 cities are:
Let’s take you through how this Club World Cup itinerary breaks down, when clubs could be going home and how late the finalists will finish…
All of these dates are relative to Eastern time in the United States.
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This is uncharted territory for a competition that has 20 years of history but nothing like what awaits it from this month.
Previously an annual tournament featuring seven clubs, we now have a 32-team competition played once every four years.
The 2025 edition has six continents and 20 countries represented across the chosen clubs, who will be hosted by 11 venues across the United States.
As yet, there is no confirmed host nation for the following Club World Cup in 2029.
So how did the 32 teams earn their place here and what do we have in store as the tournament progresses?
We’ll address all that and more, next…
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The prospect of an expanded Club World Cup has not always been taken seriously.
Indeed, the reaction to it has often straddled an unfavourable line between negative and cynical.
So how was the format conceived and put into place? And just as importantly, is it here to stay?
Who better to ask than FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafström, considered one of the principal architects of this tournament — and a man with plenty of answers for our writer Felipe Cardenas, who spoke to Grafström ahead of the opening matches.
As a taster, there still seems to be a lot up in the air about the Club World Cup’s future. Grafström said:
💬 “I believe strongly in the future of this competition. The future is bright. Now we’re focusing on this edition — and the only thing we have fixed is the ranking system for 2029 and that the next tournament will be in 2029.”
You can read Felipe’s full interview with Grafström below…
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Little more than six months after Premier League champions Manchester City finally grabbed the Champions League success they craved in 2023, they added the world title to their list of honours.
Pep Guardiola’s team were triumphant in the final running of the Club World Cup in its original format, hosted two years ago by Saudi Arabia and featuring seven teams — the champions from each FIFA confederation, alongside Saudi Pro League champions Al Ittihad as hosts.
As UEFA’s representative, Man City had a bye to the semi-finals where they beat Japan’s Urawa Red Diamonds 3-0.
Julian Alvarez then scored after just 40 seconds of the final, as the Premier League side beat Brazil’s Fluminense 4-0 in Jeddah.
Now they get to defend their crown.
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The Club World Cup could just as easily be considered the Confederation World Cup, given the legacy of each football continent sending its best team into global battle.
And generally, the European team has come out on top.
The above shows how 20 years of the tournament breaks down in terms of geography and performance, with a UEFA club in the final in all bar the first running of the competition — when Real Madrid finished fourth and Manchester United were knocked out in the group stage of the 2000 edition in Brazil.
That is why CONMEBOL has more top-three finishes than UEFA.
The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is a little different with 32 teams competing — when the previous 20 editions never brought together more than eight clubs each.
Still, the legacy of those early years will continue and a host of famous names will be looking to add to their previous victories.
Here are the most successful clubs in this competition’s history:
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As Felipe noted there, the Rose Bowl is a) no stranger to hosting marquee soccer games and b) not actually in the city of Los Angeles, despite FIFA referring to it as the Los Angeles site for the Club World Cup.
The Rose Bowl sits in the suburb of Pasadena, Calif., roughly 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of downtown Los Angeles, where protests have erupted over the past week-plus against deportation raids carried out by U.S. federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The heart of downtown Los Angeles is currently under a nightly curfew imposed by mayor Karen Bass after some of the protests turned violent last weekend.
Pasadena’s own mayor, Victor Gordo, said Thursday that no federal immigration enforcement has taken place inside the city recently. Like many other Los Angeles suburbs, Pasadena has also seen smaller protests against ICE and President Donald Trump in recent days, but those have been completely peaceful with no reports of violence.
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
There are modern marvels like Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and there’s the iconic and battle-tested Rose Bowl. This is truly the crown jewel of American stadiums. It has hosted two Olympic Games (1932 and 1984) and two memorable World Cup finals.
The 1994 men’s final between Brazil and Italy was the culmination of an iconic World Cup. That tournament put the U.S. on the map in the world of international football competitions. And who can forget Brandi Chastain’s winning penalty kick in the 1999 Women’s World Cup final? The U.S. win over China was its second World Cup title.
Of course, American college football also has a long and rich history at the Rose Bowl, and there have been many hotly contested matches between rivals Mexico and the U.S. in Pasadena, too. The Club World Cup will reintroduce the stadium to a global audience before it is a main attraction for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
The 2025 Club World Cup didn't give us any goals on opening night, but it gave us some pretty good entertainment.
Inter Miami met Egyptian champions Al Ahly at Hard Rock Stadium and, for the entirety of the first half, it looked like one of the MLS representatives might be embarrassed on the global stage.
But Oscar Ustari saved a 43rd-minute penalty and it sparked his side into life.
In the end Miami left the pitch frustrated with a goalless draw as, led by Lionel Messi, they enjoyed a host of decent late chances.
Unfortunately for them, they found Al Ahly goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy in inspired form, with his last-minute fingertip save to deny Messi a world-class winner proving to be the highlight.
A super busy day is in store across the United States today for the Club World Cup, and it is already under way.
We started in Cincinnati and with focus switching to Los Angeles for this one, we soon head east to New Jersey before finishing today’s action in Seattle.
Here are the fixtures (all times in ET):
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All matches at the Club World Cup are available on DAZN, so that is where this evening’s game will be shown in the United States and anywhere else that has access to DAZN.
Broadcasting to a selection of the matches has been licensed out to other broadcasters. This match will also air on TNT and truTV in the U.S.
In the UK, that is free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 — but this particular game is not available through them.
It’s a midday start in California for this one, with kick-off at 12pm (PT).
That translates to 3pm ET, 8pm in the UK, 9pm in both France and Spain and 3am in the morning for those of you keen folk in Australia.
Good day to you all and welcome to our coverage of the Club World Cup — and specifically a tasty Group B opener between two European heavyweights.
It’s the recently crowned Champions League winners and arguably the most exciting team in club football right now, Paris Saint-Germain, taking on Spanish spoilers par excellence, Atletico Madrid.
And it’s taking place in the magnificence of the Rose Bowl, Pasadena.
We will have full build-up and match updates for you, as well as all the insights you could ever want from our team of correspondents at the ground and watching on.
So don’t go anywhere, because we’ve got you covered from here.

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