Fifa to vote on expanded Club World Cup in 2021
According to the Fifa document, 90.4 per cent of the governing body’s 211 member federations are in favour of a revamped competition and 60 per cent back the 24-team tournament. — Reuters pic
The new tournament is the result of a working group created by Fifa following opposition to an earlier proposed revamp presented at a meeting last year in Bogota. Under the proposal to be discussed tomorrow, Uefa, which had initially sought 12 teams in the tournament, will have only eight slots.
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