Gianni Infantino prepares to present the Club World Cup trophy to Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta
Chelsea beat Palmeiras in the last Club World Cup final in February, with Gianni Infantino presenting the trophy to captain Cesar Azpilicueta

The Club World Cup will feature 32 men's teams from June 2025.

The women's version of football would be held every four years.

Friendly tournaments to be played between nations are also planned.

The Club World Cup will invite the best teams in the world.

Before this weekend's final two games of the World Cup in the Middle East, he spoke after a meeting of the Fifa Council.

The 19th edition of the Club World Cup will be hosted by the Kingdom of Morocco.

The tournament has been hosted by Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the past.

Infantino said that it has to be an ambition of the organisation to organize events in new countries.

Seven teams from six confederations compete in the Club World Cup every year.

Plans to expand the tournament to 24 teams, move it to June and hold it every four years from 2021 were put on hold because of the Covid-19 epidemic.

The Confederations Cup for international teams was held a year before the World Cup in the same spot.

New climate change targets were agreed to by Fifa, including a 50% reduction in greenhouse gases by the year 2030.

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Changes to the international football calendar are in the works.

Nations will play four games in late September and early October instead of two in each window.

The other windows will not be changed, but the March window will be used to organize World Series friendly tournaments.

The importance of teams from different continents has increased.

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We would like to use the March windows to organize friendly tournaments between four teams of four different confederations.

It will be like that for women's football. We want to create a new women's club world cup every four years.

If the women's Olympic tournament can have 16 teams, it would be better than the men's.

On the same day that Fifa's announcement came, a report said that Uefa's rules were in line with EU competition law.

Club representatives startled by Fifa proposals

Simon Stone is an analyst for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Uefa is relaxed about Infantino's plan because it doesn't cut across its competition and is planned to be outside major national tournaments.

This is not the same for the clubs and the leagues. There is no agreement on this topic.

The European Clubs' Association is yet to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Fifa, so club representatives are startled by the proposal.

There are a lot of questions about when the games will be played. In pre-season, when the big clubs can make a lot of money by playing games.

The winter World Cup happened despite the clubs and the leagues not wanting it.

Infantino talked about the welfare of players. More important matches are added to the calendar. It adds to the workload if nothing is lost to make up.

The Premier League referred back to its statement in November 2021, when clubs raised concerns about the negative impact Fifa's proposal for biennial men's World Cups would have on player welfare.

The World Leagues Forum is where the Premier League will continue to engage with, but it is believed that no formal proposals have been made around the latest plans by the world governing body.

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