The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious and controversial football tournaments in recent history. Scheduled to take place from June 14 to July 13, 2025, in the United States, this edition marks a significant change from previous formats. Expanding from a seven-team knockout competition to a full-fledged 32-team tournament, the tournament will follow a World Cup-style structure and will be held every four years, offering football fans a month-long spectacle.
While the new format promises a higher level of competition and global exposure, it has drawn considerable backlash from various corners of the football world. Players’ unions, club managers, and governing bodies have raised concerns over the potential strain on player welfare, the overcrowded football calendar, and the demands placed on clubs participating in the tournament. Despite these criticisms, the tournament will feature some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, and Jude Bellingham, ensuring that fans will be treated to high-intensity football over the month-long competition.
How to watch FIFA Club World Cup 2025?
In December 2024, FIFA announced a landmark agreement with DAZN to broadcast the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. This partnership guarantees that all 63 matches from the tournament will be live-streamed globally on DAZN for free, making it more accessible than ever for football fans around the world. In the United States, the tournament will be available via FIFA+, YouTube TV, TNT Sports, and TelevisaUnivision, providing extensive coverage of all the matches. The broadcast partner for India is yet to be announced.
DAZN, which initially launched in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Japan in 2016, has since expanded its reach to Canada (2017), Italy and US (2018), Spain and Brazil (2019), and to more than 200 countries and territories by 2020. Known for its comprehensive coverage of world championship boxing and its on-demand original programming, DAZN has become a dominant force in global sports streaming, making the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup easily accessible to a vast international audience.