A FIFA spokesman said on Sunday that Al -Ittihad is considering obtaining a single match between the MLS Side Los Angeles FC and Liga MX’s Club América team to determine the club that will run the club León in the Summer Club World Cup. Montaser will also take $ 9.55 million of the prize money granted by FIFA for qualified teams from the Concacaf region.
The selection of the Play of the Play of Costa Rica LD Alajuelense from the competition after the club’s complaint in 2024 led to the recent overthrow of Leon.
Lyon was expelled from the tournament last week by the FIFA Appeals Committee for its joint ownership with its colleague Pachuca, another team in the first section of Mexico. Pachuca qualified for the club’s World Cup by winning the Concacaf Champions 2024, while León qualified to win the 2023 version of the same tournament. Both clubs are owned by Grupo Pachuca, which also has the real oviedo classes in Spain and other clubs.
Article 10 of the FIFA regulations stipulates the club’s 2025 World Cup that “there is no legal entity or a legal entity that controls or affects more than one club participating in the competition”, and that “if two or more clubs fail to meet the standards … only one of them may be accepted in the competition.”
Alajuelense submitted a complaint to FIFA on these reasons in November 2024, then raised the matter to the CAS Arbitration Court (CAS) in January. Last week, the FIFA Lyon Appeals Committee was expelled from the championship on the basis of its joint ownership with Pachuca, but it has not provided any guidance about which club will replace them. Groupo Pachuca said that she would argue her case in a hearing on April 23 in Madrid.
The group said in a statement: “We are not satisfied with this decision and we will seek it to the maximum extent possible,” the group said in a statement. “We will defend what was won in the field.”
While Alajuelense did not stop directly attractive to themselves to replace the León in the competition, the FIFA 2025 World Cup regulations operate in theory. According to these regulations, the club’s World Cup teams qualify to compete:
A) Winning the Champions League (such as the Champions League or the Champions Cup), or …
B) The landing is high enough in FIFA club classificationThis takes into account the results over the past four years and separates the difference by union.
More importantly, FIFA also states that no club may participate in the tournament unless these clubs are eligible to win a confederation championship.
For example, the first 12 World Cup sites in UEFA went to the winners of the previous four championships: Manchester City, Chelsea, and Real Madrid (who won twice in that period). He left this nine open sites, which were allocated on the basis of FIFA classification for a period of four years. Red Bull Salzburg Austria has reduced the likes of Liverpool, Barcelona, Milan and the RB Leipzig club because the countries of these clubs have already qualified two or more teams to the competition, while it was not Austria.
Concacaf got four sites in the competition, as well as an additional “country” country to the United States that FIFA Gianni Infantino was given to Lionel Messenger’s inter miami. Regardless of Pachuca and León, the other qualifiers included Seattle Sounders of Mls and Liga MX Side Monterrey, both of whom won the title Concacaf over the past four years.
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However, without León in the picture and choosing Miami, Mexico and the United States will remain representative of the maximum number of two teams in the championship: Monterrey, Pachuka for Mexico, Sayattle and Miami for the United States.
In Article 10 of its regulations, FIFA says that General Secrerate must decide how to replace the club that contradicts the rules of multi -divorce ownership, saying that the decision must “must take into account, in particular, the concerned classification of the club (S) and the applicable shares for each union and/or the association of members related to the (S) that relates to concern.”
If FIFA should prevent clubs from the United States and Mexico from taking the León location, then this will be theoretical to their four -year classifications to determine who will occupy the open place. The non -Mexican non -Mexican team in the federation is Alajuelenese: No. 15 in the region.
In a statement to The Guardian, FIFA said that the choice of LAFC and Club américa for the possible qualifying match was based on the status of LAFC as the runner -up for ion in the CONCACAF Champions Cup for 2023 and Amérasa club as “the highest team in the club’s World Cup ranking in which a qualification is determined.”
LEón players and employees spoke against FIFA decision to expel them from the competition, as Captain Andres Ghardado made indirect criticism in Alajuelense in this process.
“You must be ashamed of the teams that raise their hands in order to have the right to compete in our place from themselves.” “It is a brutal injustice.”