FIFA, Cup and Orlando
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Take a look at Ticketmaster or most secondary market websites this week and there are plenty of seats still available at various stadiums for this year's Club World Cup in the United States. No, not the World Cup.
The 32-team competition will feature the best soccer clubs in the world. Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium will host four of the competition’s 63 matches in June. The stadium’s artificial turf will be temporarily replaced by grass.
FIFA estimates its next two summer tournaments will generate $47 billion in economic impact and provide 290,000 jobs in the United Sates.
FIFA has confirmed that referees at the 2025 Club World Cup will wear body cameras. The use of body cameras at the tournament will be on a trial basis, and Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA referees committee, said it would offer broadcast viewers a “new experience”.
Soccer's South American governing body, CONMEBOL, officially proposed a 64-team field for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, according to the Associated Press (via ESPN) on Thursday. The 2030 tournament figures to be a unique one for a number of reasons;
The final entry for this summer’s Club World Cup in the United States could be decided in a playoff game between Los Angeles FC and Mexican team América
The women's tournament is set to follow the lead of the men's World Cup and become a 48-team competition from 2031. But is Fifa right this time? BBC Sport looks at the pros and cons of an expanded Women's World Cup.
FC Cincinnati's Jeff Berding said the team will likely push for a bid to host matches during the 2031 Women's World Cup.