Ideas for the Club World Cup?

[rusty217]

I love the idea of an expanded CWC every 4 years, but I'm not really sold on the format currently in the game.

Anybody have any suggestions for a new format?

[WotinTarnation]

You could try to do standalone CWC qualification by taking the top n teams from each league and taking them through qualification for the final 32 spots. Here's what I would go to:

European Big 5 leagues (France, Italy, England, Spain, Germany): 5 spots each
Lesser European leagues (Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland) plus Brazil and Argentina: 3 spots each
All other South American leagues + Liga MX, MLS, J-League, CSL, Qatar Stars League and Saudi Pro League: 2 spots each
Everyone else in FIFA: 1 spot each

257 teams, probably have say the Anguillan and San Marino representatives play in a playoff to decide who joins the other 255 in main qualifying.

Format 1:
Year 1 - Anguilla v San Marino preliminary playoff (2 legs), first 2/3rds of First Round (16 groups of 16, single round robin) - 12 allocated matchdays
Year 2 - Last third of First Round (Top 8 advance), first half of Second Round (16 groups of 8, double round robin) - 12 allocated matchdays
Year 3 - Second half of Second Round (Top 4 advance), Qualifying playoff (2 legs, 32 ties, winners qualify) - 9 allocated matchdays
Year 4 - Club World Cup

Format 2:
Year 1 - Anguilla v San Marino preliminary playoff (2 legs), matchdays 1-10 of main qualifying (8 groups of 32, single round robin) - 12 allocated matchdays
Year 2 - Matchdays 11-23 of main qualifying - 12 allocated matchdays
Year 3 - Matchdays 24-31 of main qualifying (Winners qualify for the Club World Cup), qualifying playoff (Similar format to 2026 World Cup intercontinental playoff, teams ranked 5th-10th in groups play in first round, winners play teams ranked 2nd-4th in groups in second round, winners of 2nd round qualify for Cup World Cup. 2 legs for first and second rounds) - 12 allocated matchdays
Year 4 - Club World Cup

CWC: 8 groups of 4, top 2 advance to knockouts, carbon copy of 32 team WC format but held year before WC

You could continue the continental competitions, you can not do them. Up to you.

Edited July 22, 2022 by WotinTarnation
Added info and fixed mistake

[tkennedy22]

I've had an idea for this for a long time, but I'm not nearly talented enough with the Editor to make it happen. 

Yearly Club World Cup, played each August.

32 teams qualify, including:

• Previous year's CWC champion [1]
• Previous year's continental cup champion (UEFA Champs League, CONCACAF, Asian, CONMEBOL, Africa, Oceania) [6]
• Previous year's domestic top league champion for top 25 nations (Prem League, La Liga, Bundesliga, MLS, etc etc) [25]

Then, seed them into 4 buckets. The top teams, like the champs of Prem League, La Liga, UCL, etc, would go into bucket 1. Bucket 4 would be the lowest leagues champs.

Then, you do a ladder tournament, where the teams of buckets 3 & 4 play each other, winner playing teams from bucket 2, and winners of that playing bucket 1. 

With 8 teams per bucket, by the time the winners of the play-down games of buckets 2,3,4 play bucket 1, there would be 16 total teams left. That would mean a max of 4 games tourney for bucket 1 teams.

[rusty217]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I do quite like the idea of having qualifiers.

[LeoFreire98]

The ideal CWC for me have to have 16 teams, the qualifieds can be:

Last 4 UCL winners

Last 4 Americas Champions League winners (Conmebol & Concacaf merged)

Last 4 African champions

Last 4 Asian/Oceania champions or 3 asian and 1 oceania. Maybe need to merge continents or create qualifying competition for those

If a team win the continental competition twice, the runner up wins the spot

16 teams, 4 groups of 4 and the first 2 spots qualify for quarter finals, simple format