Eliminated in the round of 16 of the Champions League twice in a row, PSG is not sure of being able to participate in the 2025 Club World Cup if it has two other failures on the European scene.
The PSG will he be world champion before becoming European champion? And why not ? Les Rouge et Bleu were to participate in the future 32-team Club World Cup for 2025, barring disaster. There will be 12 European teams: the last 4 winners of the Champions League (starting with Chelsea and Real Madrid) and 8 other teams taking into account the UEFA Club Coefficients.
The best teams from the Old Continent should be there (perhaps in China, where Fifa already wanted to organize an expanded Club World Cup in 2021). There will be no more than two representatives from the same country, except in the case of 3 winners of the Champions League. This may be the case for England, if one of the bigs of the Premier League (other than Chelsea) lifts the trophy with big ears.
PSG will no longer be finalists…
PSG are 6th in the club rankings established by UEFA, but their two consecutive eliminations in the round of 16 from the C1 (by Real Madrid and Bayern) could weigh them down in the event of further disappointment over the next two years. Fifa will take into account the results of the last 4 seasons (from 2020 to 2024) to determine the other 8 European participants in the Club World Cup. For the Qatar-owned club, the points pocketed in the 2020 final will not be counted.
However, the Parisians still reach the knockout phase and there is little chance of seeing them out of the European top 10. On the other hand, other big teams in Europe are already on favorable ballot, such as Barça, which will have to make up for its poor score this season, Juventus, which may not play in the European Cup next season, or Arsenal, who did not participate in any European competition last year.
