MetLife Stadium will host the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup final in July

MetLife Stadium, home of the NFL’s New York Giants and Jets teams 2025 Club World Cup final in July 2025, FIFA announced on Saturday.

FIFA also announced the other 11 stadiums that will be used in the tournament in which 32 teams will take part.

Matches in the Club World Cup, which will start on June 15, 2025, will be played at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium, Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium, Los Angeles’ Rose Bowl Stadium, Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, Nashville. It will be played at GEODIS Park in . , Orlando’s Camping World Stadium and Inter&Co Stadium, Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, Seattle’s Lumen Field and Washington DC’s Audi Field will advance to the final on July 13, 2025.

Five of the stadiums (MetLife Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, Lumen Field, Hard Rock Stadium) will also host games. 2026 World CupIt will take place in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The 2025 Club World Cup will have a new 32-team format consisting of 12 teams from Europe, six from South America, four from Asia, four from Africa, four from North and Central America and the Caribbean, and one from Oceania. . Team from host country USA

Two more teams, one from the United States and the other from South America, will still participate in the qualifiers.

There will be a draw in eight groups of four and each team will play three matches in the group stage. The top two teams from each group will advance to the knockout phase of the tournament.

The draw will be held in December.

The timing of the 2025 Club World Cup sparked criticism, with international players’ union FIFPRO saying in December that the event would “reduce the rest and recovery time for these players at the end of the 2024-25 season”. FIFA’s decision “shows that the mental and physical health of the participating players was not taken into account, as well as their personal and family lives.”

Teams that qualified for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup

Europe: Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Juventus, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, Real Madrid, Red Bull Salzburg

South America: Boca Juniors, Flamengo, Fluminense, Palmeiras, River Plate

North and Central America and the Caribbean: Leon, Monterrey, Pachuca, Seattle Sounders

Africa: Al Ahly, Espérance, Mamelodi Sundowns, Waydad

Asia: Al-Hilal, Al Ain, Ulsan, Urawa

oceania: Auckland City