FIFA picks Morocco to host Club World Cup in February 2023
The Hindu
The 2023 FIFA Club World Cup will be one of the last seven-team editions for continental champions with an expanded 32-team tournament planned to start in 2025
Morocco was rewarded by FIFA on Friday with hosting rights for the next Club World Cup in February, with an expanded 32-team edition set to launch in 2025.
European champion Real Madrid, South American champion Flamengo and Seattle Sounders, the first CONCACAF Champions League winner from the United States, will play in the traditional seven-team tournament from Feb. 1-11.
After Morocco's inspiring run to the World Cup semifinals in Qatar, the country will now stage the next global football event in six weeks' time, FIFA's ruling council decided.
It will be one of the last seven-team editions for continental champions with an expanded, month-long tournament planned to start in 2025.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the intended change was “making it really like a World Cup.”
In Morocco, Casablanca should stage games with the city set to provide two teams in the 10-day competition, which features continental champions from each of the six confederations in world football.
Wydad won Africa's Champions League last season and also the Moroccan league. The place FIFA reserves for the host nation's domestic champion should revert to league runner-up Raja. Both teams are based in Casablanca, where the 67,000-seat Stade Mohammed V is the likely venue for some of the eight Club World Cup games.
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