FIFA has approved the access list for the 32-team FIFA Club World Cup which will now take place every four years from June 2025.
Teams who win their confederation’s top tournament in the four-year period of the seasons ending in 2021 and 2024 will qualify where they have enough places.
Europe has 12 places in the new tournament and Chelsea and Real Madrid, who won the Champions League in 2021 and 2022 respectively, have already secured their spots.
The other qualifying teams from each continent will be determined by a club ranking based on the same four-year period.
There will be a cap of two clubs per country with the exception being if more than two teams from the same country win their confederation’s premier tournament over the qualification period.
Fifa also wants to keep a yearly club competition and this will be between the winner of the Uefa Champions League and the winner of intercontinental play-offs between the other confederations.