The inaugural FIFA Women’s Club World Cup will be contested by 16 teams in January-February 2026. The tournament will be held every four years. It took FIFA so many years to finally organise it. Waiting to see the allocation but considering it is a 16 teams tournament, the odds are stacked towards the usual 3 teams for every confederation except Oceania with one team. Also FIFA wanting to please the stakeholders created another tournament: New FIFA women’s club competition To facilitate the continued global development of women’s clubs and based on requests from the confederations to provide ample playing opportunities on a yearly basis, it was further proposed that an additional FIFA women’s club competition be organised in non-FIFA Women’s Club World Cup years as from 2027.
The new Concacaf women’s club competition will include clubs from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean and will be the sole qualification route for Concacaf clubs to the FIFA Women’s Club World Cup. https://www.concacaf.com/en/concaca...-to-launch-concacaf-women-s-club-competition/
To recap the qualifiers for the 2026 Club World Cup : AFC 22 teams UEFA 72 teams CONCACAF 11 teams CONMEBOL OFC CAF
CONMEBOL should be 16 teams unless they update the format again soon, which they haven't for a while now CAF should be 8 for the main tournament, 30-some if you include qualifiers
I find it crazy that FIFA has still not announced the slot allocation and qualification mode for the tournament while the qualifiers have already started.
It's FIFA and WoSo. I'm not surprised at all. Heck, the CAF final tournament doesn't even have a host yet despite getting its fifth qualified team today. Besides, I don't think qualifiers have started yet. If the tournament is in early 2026, then all of the continental tournament that don't go cross-calendar will use the 2025 tournaments as qualifiers, not the 2024 tournaments. I think UEFA and AFC are the only two cross-calendar continental championships, and neither of those have officially started yet (though both will start within the next week or two). =EDIT= And I'm a dolt, my own CONCACAF also goes cross-calendar and *has* started. But it's CONCACAF, which is also a place I'm not surprised when WoSo stuff happens with minimal planning.
I emailed the FIFA media team about the qualification mode a month ago and they never got back to me.
Chinese media reveal that in the talk between FIFA and CFA in Shanghai, President Gianni Infantino proposed China to host the inaugural FIFA Women's Club World Cup - an initiative that FIFA expect to host in 2026. pic.twitter.com/v0WUn2Tdum— China Sports Vision 2050 (@CSV2050) November 1, 2024 Maybe China will host the tournament.
Don't know why it says tweet not valid, here is the content "Chinese media reveal that in the talk between FIFA and CFA in Shanghai, President Gianni Infantino proposed China to host the inaugural FIFA Women's Club World Cup - an initiative that FIFA expect to host in 2026."
I think that just happens from time to time... When I logged in earlier this morning for the first time and checked my notification, I got the "not valid" warning, but after refreshing the page, the Tweet showed up just fine. I blame E1on for breaking everything.
there is so little "valid" on the anti-social app that is "X" (Or twitter) that that label could be applied almost everywhere to almost everything and the Chinese and Russian twitter (x) members are well known to disseminate disinformation and outright lies that it almost seems that the posts are plants by the USA political systems. I trust nothing from twitter unless it is verified by at least two unrelated independent sources and, even then, its appetence on X makes its voracity unclear at best. It may actually happen but, personally, I would be opposed to China hosting anything soccer related. And I would oppose serval other nations, Like Russia or North Korea hosting anything related to soccer. But this drifts too close to the political side of comment so I will desist now. If a mod thinks this is too political then I would not oppose this being deleted but I think the separation of politics and soccer failed a long time ago and "hosting" nations need to at least show some indication of tolerance before they are allowed to host.
I agree. However, I do use Twitter to provide notifications to those who are interested (generally, US NCAA Division I women's soccer coaches) when I post articles on a blog I created for communication about issues related to the NCAA rating system, the NCAA Tournament, and how to schedule in relation to the two. That has turned out to be convenient. I would use a different service, if a good and easy to use one was available, for the reasons you state -- even moreso now than even a few months ago.
you "could" simply use email. It is easy and can be directed exactly where you want. But extremely limited use of anti-social media is not bad. it is the misuse and the suppression of views that makes it bad. I am not talking about institutional suppression but rather the fact that large numbers of folks can easily make it impossible for users to actually discuss anything. It is a case of the majority overwhelms and silences any minority they disagree with. But I am old enough to really hope that I will die before twitter and its ilk kills all real communication for everybody. But, again, I am well off topic and so will shut up, at least for now.