A billion in funding, security issues, frantic pace... 5 questions about the 2025 Club World Cup

"A new era for football," boasts Gianni Infantino , no less, as he discusses his latest craze: the Club World Cup. The FIFA boss is behind this revamped competition, which this year is expanding from 7 to 32 clubs. And likely to 48 for the next edition, if this one goes as planned. With ever more money at stake, and ever less rest for the stars of the big teams, who see their summer rest period reduced to next season's minimum. Libération takes a look at the issues surrounding this World Cup in five questions.

Until now, at least in its most recent version , the Club World Cup took place at the end of the year in the form of a mini-tournament in which a representative from each of the regional confederations participated, i.e. seven clubs.