Club World Cup 2019: Champions League winners Liverpool will headline tournament in Qatar

Club World Cup 2019: Champions League winners Liverpool will headline tournament in Qatar
The Club World Cup will be held in Qatar in December.Liverpool have the honour of playing in the tournament after beating Tottenham in the Champions League final in Madrid on Saturday.FIFA met in Paris on Monday where they also revealed the competition will be staged in Qatar for the next two years.AFP/Getty1

Jordan Henderson lifted the Champions League trophy after Liverpool beat Tottenham

Staging the seven-team tournament will be a chance for the country to test their new stadiums ahead of the 2022 World Cup.FIFA will scrap the current Club World Cup format and relaunch it as a 24-team tournament in 2021 to be held every fourth summer in the slot currently held by the Confederations Cup.There has been a delay in naming the host of the tournament as FIFA want to make sure Qatar have two finished stadiums.

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“Following the approval of a revamped FIFA Club World Cup with 24 teams, the pilot edition of which will be played in 2021, the FIFA Council decided to award Qatar the right to host the next two editions of the tournament in its existing format in 2019 and 2020.The upcoming editions of the seven-team competition will serve as valuable test events in the build-up to the FIFA World Cup 2022, even more so since their timing usually around early December corresponds with that of the next FIFA World Cup, allowing for testing under similar climatic conditions,” a statement read.The already renovated Khalifa International Stadium in Doha is being used for the World Athletics Championships in September and will not be ready for football in December.Liverpool will be competing for the Club World Cup against the champions of world footballs other five confederations and the national champions of the host country. The qualifiers so far are Mexicos Monterey, Tunisias Esperance and Hienghene Sport and Oceania champions New Caledonia.The Asian and South American champions will be decided in November.Current Qatari champions are Al Sadd, who are managed by former Barcelona and Spain star Xavi.

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