The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is over, with Chelsea crowned champions. Time to let our reporters who covered the competition chime in with their final thoughts on the good, bad and ugly.

The revamped FIFA Club World Cup —featuring a 32-team format modeled after the men’s World Cup—has quickly become a global phenomenon. Its inaugural edition, hosted in the United States, drew massive ...

Vitinha was threatening the top 10 during the last set of B/R Ballon d'Or rankings, but the Portuguese has fully joined the ...

The attendance figures also offer a reminder that the Club World Cup and next year's World Cup are not exactly analogous – Murphy believes the newness of the former was a hindrance for fans, while the ...

Fifa's hailing of its Club World Cup has been labelled "nothing more than a fiction" by the president of leading players' global union Fifpro. In a scathing statement, Sergio Marchi appeared to ...

The author concludes that the event was a poor preview of the upcoming World Cup, which he predicts will be a "gaudy disaster." So far, the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup had been an obvious embarrassment.

Joao Pedro of Chelsea scores to make it 1-0 during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 semi-final match between Fluminense FC and Chelsea FC at MetLife Stadium on July 08, 2025 in East Rutherford, New ...

FIFA says 2.4 million fans have attended Club World Cup matches – with an average of 38,000 – and 21 of the 62 matches already played saw at least 50,000.

FIFA sought to name a global champion of club football by establishing the Club World Cup at the start of the 21st century. The Intercontinental Cup had been running since 1960, but only teams ...

Chelsea will take on Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on ...