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The 2025 FIFA Membership World Cup guarantees to be one of the prestigious and profitable tournaments in membership soccer historical past. With an expanded 32-team format and the match set to happen in the USA, the competitors will deliver collectively the world’s greatest golf equipment in a month-long battle for world supremacy. Nevertheless, one notable absence from the lineup is Barcelona.
Regardless of boasting stars like Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski, the Catalan giants didn’t safe a spot within the match. Along with lacking out on an opportunity to compete on the world stage, Barcelona additionally loses out on a huge monetary alternative—one that would have considerably helped their precarious monetary scenario. However why precisely received’t the Blaugrana be there? And the way a lot cash are they lacking out on? Let’s break it down.
Whereas some might assume that Barcelona’s standing as a European powerhouse would routinely grant them entry, FIFA carried out a strict qualification course of for the match. Solely 12 European golf equipment secured spots within the competitors, together with the final three UEFA Champions League winners—Actual Madrid (2022, 2024), Manchester Metropolis (2023), and Chelsea (2021).
The remaining 9 spots had been awarded primarily based on membership performances within the Champions League over the past 4 seasons (2021-2024), with a serious restriction: solely two golf equipment per nation might qualify until greater than two had received the Champions League throughout this cycle. For Spanish golf equipment, Actual Madrid’s two Champions League triumphs meant they had been assured a spot, leaving solely yet one more house for a La Liga crew. That place went to Atletico Madrid, who outperformed Barcelona in European competitors through the related interval.
Regardless of successful La Liga in 2023, the Catalan facet’s European struggles proved pricey. Their early exits from the Champions League in 2021-22 and 2022-23, mixed with solely a spherical of 16 end earlier than that, left them ranked under Atletico in UEFA’s coefficient system.
How a lot cash does Barcelona doubtlessly lose?
Past the status, the 2025 Membership World Cup affords an infinite monetary windfall. FIFA has allotted a $1 billion prize pool, with vital sums assured for taking part golf equipment. Just by qualifying, Actual Madrid will reportedly obtain $38 million, whereas Atletico Madrid will get $22 million. Hansi Flick‘s gamers, nevertheless, will get nothing.
Had they certified and gone far within the competitors, they might have earned considerably extra. The prize cash will increase with development by means of the match, with the final word champion anticipated to take dwelling tens of hundreds of thousands in further income. This monetary blow is especially damaging given Barcelona’s well-documented monetary struggles and ongoing have to adjust to Monetary Honest Play laws.
