He Real Madrid, who was proclaimed winner of the Champions League 2023-2024, will be the first European club to aspire to win the renewed version of the Intercontinental Cup.
The FIFA announced last December the return of the Intercontinental Cupor at least a competition with the name of that tournament that until 2004 annually pitted the current champions of Europe and South America, the two continents that traditionally dominated world football.
Real Madri will play the Intercontinental Cup again
The Intercontinental It is part of the calendar reform, marked above all by the creation of an expanded version of the Club World Cup, which in 2025 will premiere in USA a new format with 32 participating teams instead of the 7 with which it is currently disputed.
Before the final, Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund They had their place secure for that new Club World Cup.
The new one Intercontinentalwhich will be played unless there is a change of plans at the end of this year, in a location yet to be announced, will be played with the clubs that have been proclaimed continental champions in the current calendar year.
The European champion goes directly to the final, while representatives of other confederations must play previous rounds.
On one side of the table, the champions of Asia, Africa and Oceania define the identity of a semifinalist, while the monarchs of Conmebol and Concacaf determine the other with a duel against each other.
The single semi-final is played a few days before the final, in the country that has been chosen to host the final part of the tournament. The winner will be Real Madrid’s rival in the final.
Before this weekend, the Emirati Al Ain, the Egyptian Al Ahly, and the New Zealand Auckland had won titles in their confederations. A few hours after Real Madrid’s title, the Mexican Pachuca was crowned in the Concacaf zone (North, Central America and the Caribbean), beating the American Colombus Crew 3-0 in the final.
Of the six teams participating in the new Intercontinental, only one remains to be known, the South American team, which will be the champion of this year’s Copa Libertadores, where the round of 16 will be drawn on Monday.
For Real Madrid, winning the Champions League also allows them to compete in the European Super Cup, the match kicks off the official season of European club competitions.
Real Madrid will face Italian Atalanta, recent champion of the Europa League, in that Continental Super Cup on August 14 at the National Stadium in Warsaw.
Source: Ambito
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