The opening game of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will be the match between Al Ahly and Inter Miami on Saturday night, June 14, 2025, local time. The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will begin on Saturday, June 14, with 26 World Cup winners competing in the tournament.

It marks the first expanded edition of the tournament, and for the players, coaches, fans and FIFA’s coffers it promises to be a spectacle of unmatched scale and stakes.

In an interview with AFP, Infantino also aimed at critics of FIFA’s ticketing policy and said that sceptics who had questioned the need for the tournament would quickly change their minds.