Last Friday, June 23, it was announced that the venue for the 2025 Club World Cup will be UNITED STATES. This new format will have 32 participating teams and will be played over a month in the North American country. In this way, there will be a greater number of places per confederation, giving the Peruvian Football League 1 teams the opportunity to take part in this competition and face teams such as Real Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool and others.
For the 2025 Club World Cup, the distribution was as follows: 12 teams from UEFA (Europe), six from Conmebol (South America), four from Concacaf (North America), four from CAF (Africa), four from AFC (Asia). ), one from the OFC (Oceania) and one representative from the host country.
In the case of Conmebol, two of the six places are already occupied by two Brazilian teams Palm treesjflamengoraised theLibertadores Cup 2021 and 2022, respectively In this way there are only four free places left that could be occupied by a Peruvian team such as Alianza Lima, Universitario, Sporting Cristal, FBC Melgar and others. But what has to happen for that to happen?
These are the 12 clubs that qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup. Photo: ESPN
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How can a Peruvian team qualify for the 2025 Club World Cup?
For this new format, Conmebol will assign its six places as follows: the four champions of the Copa Libertadores 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; while the other two remaining tickets will be awarded by classification within Conmebol.
For a Peruvian team to qualify for one of the four remaining spots, they must win the current Copa Libertadores or next year. If he fails, he must remain in the top two spots of the Conmebol rankings.
Let’s remember that in this edition of the Conmebol tournament, only Sporting Cristal has a chance to stay alive and advance to the next round. Alianza Lima and Melgar have retired from the highest club competition and are fighting for promotion to the Copa Sudamericana.
Teams qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup
E vs Europe
- Chelsea
- real Madrid
- Manchester City
Asia
- Al Hilal
- Red Urawa Diamonds
Africa
- Al Ahly
- Wydad Athletic Club
Concacaf
- Monterrey
- Seattle Sounders
- Club Leon
Conmebol
- Palm trees
- flamengo