{"id":486852,"date":"2024-10-14T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486852"},"modified":"2024-10-14T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T15:42:35","slug":"fifpro-launch-legal-battle-against-fifas-2025-club-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fifpro-launch-legal-battle-against-fifas-2025-club-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFpro launch legal battle against FIFA&#8217;s 2025 Club World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drama surrounding FIFA&#8217;s 2025 Club World Cup is continuing to grow after FIFPro, the global players&#8217; union, and top European leagues collectively filed a complaint, signaling mounting discontent over the increasingly congested football calendar. With the Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League already expanding, the introduction of the new Club World Cup format has raised concerns that players will receive insufficient rest, particularly during the summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFPRO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFPRO<\/a> Europe, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuropeanLeagues?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@EuropeanLeagues<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaLiga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LaLiga<\/a> have filed a complaint with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EU_Commission?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@EU_Commission<\/a>, challenging FIFA&#8217;s handling of the international match calendar, including decisions relating to the FIFA Club World Cup 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Updates to follow \ud83e\uddf5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uzDg3uxSHv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uzDg3uxSHv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIFPRO (@FIFPRO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFPRO\/status\/1845807138301477004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The complaint, filed with the European Commission, is part of a broader effort to push back against FIFA\u2019s unilateral decision to schedule the expanded Club World Cup from June 15 to July 13, 2025, in the USA, with clubs like Inter and Juventus already confirmed to participate. FIFPro&#8217;s director of policy, Alexander Bielefeld, referred to the move as &#8220;unprecedented,&#8221; highlighting how unusual it is for such a large coalition of football organizations to take joint legal action.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict began in June with a legal challenge in the Brussels court of commerce, contesting FIFA\u2019s right to unilaterally set the international match calendar and the decision to create and schedule the Club World Cup without prior consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drama surrounding FIFA&#8217;s 2025 Club World Cup is continuing to grow after FIFPro, the global players&#8217; union, and top European leagues collectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486853,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17155,17367,23190],"news_category":[14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[20068,432,8245],"acf":{"announce":"The big European leagues also stand against the tournament, scheduled for next summer","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486854,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486852\/revisions\/486854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486852"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486852"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}