2025 FIFA Club World Cup Schedule Released

The 2025 Club World Cup will kick off on June 14 with Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami opening the monthlong tournament, and ending with a week of games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

FIFA published the 63-game schedule Saturday for the first 32-team edition, two days after making the draw in Miami. FIFA said its match schedule aimed to maximize rest and minimize travel for players and took forecast heat and weather into account.

The first edition of the expanded FIFA Club World Cup in the United States will be staged from June 15 to July 13, 2025, with 32 teams from around the world competing the year before the FIFA Men’s World Cup comes to North America. The tournament will have a group stage of eight groups with four teams per group, the top two progressing to the Round of 16 with a single-match knockout stage throughout the elimination rounds until the final.

MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, site of the 2026 World Cup final, was already announced as hosting the final on Sunday, July 13. FIFA said Saturday the venue also will stage the two semifinals on July 8-9 and the fourth quarterfinal on July 5.

The two West Coast locations — Pasadena and Seattle — stage only group-stage games with all round of 16 games being played in Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Orlando and Philadelphia. Quarterfinals also are in Atlanta, Orlando and Philadelphia.

Twelve stadiums will be used for the expanded 32-team tournament including five of the 11 U.S. venues for the 2026 World Cup: Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta; MetLife Stadium; Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida; Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and Lumen Field in Seattle.

Other sites include the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, site of the 1994 World Cup final, and Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, another 1994 World Cup site. The additional NFL home is Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, which doubles as the home for MLS’ Charlotte FC.

The MLS venues are TQL Stadium in Cincinnati; Geodis Park in Nashville, Tennessee; Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando; and Audi Field in Washington.

Miami, East Rutherford and Philadelphia each host the most matches with eight apiece. Atlanta, Los Angeles, Orlando and Seattle host six matches each; Charlotte and Cincinnati host four matches each and Nashville and Washington host the fewest number of matches with three apiece.