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On Saturday, September 28, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced 12 venues in the USA, where the Club World Cup 2025 will be held, including the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey slated to host the tournament final. The newly expanded 32-team tournament will feature the title-winning teams from each of FIFA’s continental confederations, who will compete against each other in a month-long tournament from June 15 to July 13.
Notably, the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey is an open-air stadium with a seating capacity of 82,500, which has already hosted the Copa America Centenario final in 2016, while it is also going to hold the FIFA World Cup 2026 final. Among the 12 venues picked for the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, only two of them are on the west coast, namely the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles and Lumen Field in Seattle.
This new FIFA competition is the only true example in worldwide club football of real solidarity and inclusivity: Gianni Infantino
Apart from these three venues, the other nine which will host matches in the upcoming tournament are GEODIS Park (Nashville), Camping World Stadium (Orlando), Inter&Co Stadium (Orlando), Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia), Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte), TQL Stadium (Cincinnati), Hard Rock Stadium (Miami), Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta), and Audi Field (Washington, DC).
The FIFA Club World Cup 2025 will have its draw going down in December of this year, with 30 teams out of 32 already making it through on the basis of the qualification procedure. Moreover, the tournament will be held in the USA at the same time when the regional CONCACAF Gold Cup is set to happen on the west coast of the country.
While making the announcement of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 venues, Gianni Infantino spoke about the value of the newly expanded tournament. He was quoted as saying, “This new FIFA competition is the only true example in worldwide club football of real solidarity and inclusivity, allowing the best clubs from Africa, Asia, Central and North America and Oceania to play the powerhouses of Europe and South America in an incredible new World Cup which will impact enormously the growth of club football and talent globally.”
