FIFA Club World Cup 2022

  The 18th edition of the tournament will see the Blues take on fellow continental champions from across the globe and try to bring the trophy back to Europe just as Bayern Munich did at the last event. The 2021 FIFA Club World Cup, which is actually being held in 2022, is due to take place this month with Chelsea set to fly the flag for England and Europe against some of world football’s biggest clubs.  The champions of UEFA, CONMEBOL (The South American Football Confederation), AFC (Asian Football Confederation), CAF (Confederation of African Football), CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football), OFC (Oceania Football Confederation) and a club from the host nation will all be taking part to determine the best club team in world football. Here is everything you need to know about the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup including when it starts, what the fixtures are, who Chelsea are playing and how to watch it in the UK.  When do...

There are few teams on the planet as familiar with the FIFA Club World Cup™ as Monterrey. The Mexicans’ upcoming trip to Abu Dhabi will, after all, be their fifth appearance in the tournament, a CONCACAF record. Should they beat Al Ahly in their opening match, they will also move to third on the list of clubs who have played most Club World Cup games. The Mexican club has its sights set a little higher than that this year, however. They want nothing less than a place in the final for the very first time. Among the players who have figured large in Monterrey’s long-running association with the competition is Cesar Delgado. With five goals, he is the third-highest all-time marksman in the Club World Cup, having finished joint-top scorer at Japan 2012. Delgado trails only Cristiano Ronaldo (seven goals) and Gareth Bale (six), and is level with another two superstars. “When I see my name up there with Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi it just seems too strange to me,” Delgado told FIFA . “I...

The games were due to be played in Japan, but they pulled out as hosts last month because of the high number of coronavirus cases in the country; the annual tournament features the champions of the different continents along with the host nation's national champions What is the FIFA Club World Cup? The annual tournament features the champions of the different continents along with the host nation's national champions, with Chelsea qualifying as Champions League winners. The games were due to be played in Japan, but they pulled out as hosts last month because of the high number of coronavirus cases in the country so the tournament is being held in the United Arab Emirates. Chelsea, who have a bye through to the semi-finals, will face either Egyptian side Al Ahly, New Zealand's Auckland City or Al Jazira Club from UAE, who are among the 10 teams who have qualified for the tournament. The Blues' opponents will be determined by the results of earlier rounds of action, with ...

The fairy tale of AS Pirae might be the focus of attention when the opening game of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021™ gets underway, but across the pitch history will also be made by Al Jazira, who will become the first Emirati club to appear in two editions of the competition. In a region where teams tend to spend their way to league titles, the Abu Dhabi-based outfit have drafted their own path to glory, relying on a core of homegrown talent to deliver two UAE Pro League titles in the span of five years, with the club having previously won just one crown in its four decades of existence. Five years ago, former Chelsea and Barcelona assistant coach Henk ten Cate led an unfancied group of youngsters to break all sorts of domestic records, winning the UAE Pro League title with the highest points tally in the competition’s history, while the poster boy for the club’s youth development, Ali Mabkhout, became the first Emirati player to win the league’s top scorer award with a record 32 goa...

  Abu Dhabi: The FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021 Mobile roadshow featured at Expo 2020 over three days at the venue of the world’s largest event of its kind, in the Sports Arena. The activation is part of the engagement plans set by FIFA and the Local Organising Committee that aim to positively impact the community. The events and activations is located at Expo 2020, a six-month universal exhibition that attracts visitors from all over the world, and aims to promote an active lifestyle among young people while raising awareness about the competition. Football fans were able to feast their eyes on and even have their picture taken with the prestigious FIFA Club World Cup Winner’s Trophy. The iconic trophy, which first featured in the 2005 edition of the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, sat at the heart of the activation. Football fans The crowd favourite Dhabi, the official mascot of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021 presented by Alibaba Cloud also featured at the activation, engaging with...

FIFA says the Club World Cup 2021, scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi in February this year, is scheduled to go ahead as planned despite the escalation in Yemen’s long-running war that has seen the UAE capital targeted by Houthi missiles in the last week. On Monday, the UAE said it had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles over Abu Dhabi fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The escalation in violence and the twin attacks raised doubts over the tournament but FIFA, football’s world governing body, told Al Jazeera that the event is planned to go ahead as scheduled. “The FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021 will be hosted as planned,” a FIFA spokesperson said. “When it comes to security at the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021, FIFA is continuing to monitor the situation and working closely with the Local Organising Committee, and other key stakeholders in the UAE, regarding security arrangements for the tournament.” The seven-team event gets under way with host team Al Jazira Club ta...