The Spanish Football League will study possible legal actions against FIFA’s decision to expand the new Club World Cup to 32 teams from 2025, in a competition that will be held every four years.
“These decisions made unilaterally and without prior notice in the preparation of the calendar, with new international competitions, irreversibly harm the entire football ecosystem,” LaLiga accuses.
The Spanish entity will also analyze FIFA’s decision to increase the number of competitors in the 2026 World Cup to 48, with the possibility of 12 groups of four teams or 16 groups of three teams, to guarantee “many more matches”.
“With these measures, FIFA moves away from the objective of protecting the interests of the football industry, in which an environment of balance between national and international football must be fostered, for the benefit of football in general”, criticizes the organization.
Likewise, the discontent over the unilateral decision, “without any type of consultation or agreement with the leagues”, to set, less than two months after the event, for February 2023, between 01 and 11, in Morocco, the World Cup. of Clubs of 2022, remembering the damage to the national calendars, set in June.
“FIFA only thinks of a small group of clubs and players, when in professional football there are many professional leagues, thousands of clubs and players who do not play in these international competitions. FIFA seems to forget and think only of a few without knowing the true effect on all the agents of professional football”, sentenced LaLiga.
Some of the changes were announced this Friday by FIFA president Gianni Infantino in Qatar.
Source: TSF
