World Leagues Forum: Steering group "vigorously opposed" to new FIFA competitions / formats

"The steering group of the World Leagues Forum have agreed that plans for extending any competitions which impact negatively upon the already congested match calendar will be vigorously opposed," stated the World Leagues Forum, after its meeting convened in Düsseldorf (GER) on 08/05/2018.

Among the various items on the agenda, the steering group discussed FIFA's plans to create two new football competitions, a re-designed "Club World Cup", and a "Global Nations League," says WLF.

FIFA is studying the project of a group of investors willing to inject $25bn (€20.4bn) over the 2021-2033 period for the organisation of a newly formatted Club World Cup (in which 24 clubs would participate, including 12 European ones, every four years) and a Nations League on a global scale. These two competitions would replace the current Club World Cup (organised each year in December by FIFA) and the FIFA Confederations Cup (which FIFA organises every four years, the year before the World Cup, in the host country of the later event, as with Russia in 2017).

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