FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced at a press conference in Doha today (Friday) the holding of the Club World Cup tournament with 32 teams – a tournament that will be launched in 2025 in Morocco and will be held every 4 years in a format similar to the World Cup for national teams.
Infantino presented data on the current World Cup and claimed that “this is the most successful tournament ever”. We played 62 games without any incidents basically. The number of goals is similar to the one in Russia – 163 so far; And no team won all their games.
For the first time in history national teams from all continents reached the knockout stages – and a woman refereed a game, which shows that something is happening in the aspect that we are talking about football that becomes global and unites people.” In addition, Infantino presented data that showed that 3.27 million spectators were present in the fields so far, more than in Russia 2018 – where There were 3.03 in all games.
The average number of fans per game is 52,760, compared to just over 47,000 in Russia 2018. 1.7 million fans attended FIFA festivals, almost 80,000 people per day. The five countries from which the most fans came: Saudi Arabia, India, the United States, Great Britain and Mexico .