Just 11 months before the inaugural 32-team Club World Cup in men’s football, FIFA invited bids on Monday for rights to broadcast the 63-game tournament to be staged in the United States. FIFA said a second phase of rights sales for the 2025 and 2029 Club World Cups will follow in Europe. However, the value of a potential Apple deal was seen as an issue for the influential European Club Association (ECA) led by Nasser al-Khelaïfi, the president of Paris Saint-Germain which is also in the Club World Club lineup. The Club World Cup will become a month-long tournament played every four years in June-July. The annual version was previously packaged up with World Cup deals.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 16, 2024 16:38 UTC