2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup
2nd edition of the FIFA Intercontinental Cup
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The 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup (officially known as the FIFA Intercontinental Cup Qatar 2025 presented by Aramco for sponsorship reasons) was the second edition of the FIFA Intercontinental Cup, an annual club association football tournament organised by FIFA. The tournament comprised the six teams that won the previous edition of the continental championships in each FIFA confederation, playing each other in a single-elimination bracket, and took place from 14 September to 17 December 2025.[2]
Qatar
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Final stages: Qatar |
| Dates | 14 September – 17 December |
| Teams | 6 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venues | 3 (in 3 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Paris Saint-Germain (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Flamengo |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 5 |
| Goals scored | 14 (2.8 per match) |
| Attendance | 111,067 (22,213 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Fiston Mayele (Pyramids)3 goals |
| Best player |  Vitinha (Paris Saint-Germain)[1] |
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The tournament broadly maintained the format of the previous annual versions of the FIFA Club World Cup, which was expanded and reorganised into a quadrennial tournament with more entrants, with the exception of changes to venues for the initial rounds.[3] The last three matches took place in Ahmad bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar.[4]
Real Madrid were the defending champions, but they were not able to defend their title after being eliminated by Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League. The eventual winners of that competition Paris Saint-Germain went on to win the Intercontinental Cup for the first time in their history after beating Flamengo marking their first club world champions title.
Format
The details were approved by the FIFA Council on 17 December 2023, with the format formally confirmed on 20 September 2024.[5][6][7][8]
- First round: The winners of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League[a] played the winners of the 2025 OFC Men's Champions League in the "FIFA African–Asian–Pacific Cup play-off".[9] The match was hosted by the club from the country with the higher ranking in the FIFA Men's World Ranking.
- Second round: The winners of the 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite played the winners of the first round for the title of the "FIFA African–Asian–Pacific Cup". The match was hosted by the club from the country with the higher ranking in the FIFA Men's World Ranking. In parallel, the winners of the 2025 Copa Libertadores and the winners of the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup played each other at a neutral venue in a match that was denominated the "FIFA Derby of the Americas".
- Play-off: The winners of the second round matches played each other in the "FIFA Challenger Cup".
- Final: The winners of the play-off (FIFA Challenger Cup) played the winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League.
Venues
 Egypt |
 Saudi Arabia |
 Qatar |
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| Cairo | Jeddah | Al Rayyan |
| 30 June Stadium | King Abdullah Sports City | Ahmad bin Ali Stadium |
| Capacity: 30,000 | Capacity: 62,345 | Capacity: 45,032 |
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Qualified teams
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| Team | Confederation | Qualification | Qualified date | Participation |
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| Entering in the final | ||||
| Paris Saint-Germain |
UEFA | Winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League | 31 May 2025 | 1st |
| Entering in the second round | ||||
| Al-Ahli |
AFC | Winners of the 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite | 3 May 2025 | 1st |
 Cruz Azul |
CONCACAF | Winners of the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup | 1 June 2025 | 1st |
| Flamengo |
CONMEBOL | Winners of the 2025 Copa Libertadores | 29 November 2025 | 1st |
| Entering in the first round | ||||
| Pyramids |
CAF | Winners of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League | 1 June 2025 | 1st |
 Auckland City |
OFC | Winners of the 2025 OFC Men's Champions League | 12 April 2025 | 2nd (Previous: 2024) |
Matches
The match schedule was confirmed on 9 September 2025.[9][10] If a match was tied after normal playing time, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out was held to determine the winner.[11]
Bracket
| Derby of the Americas | Challenger Cup | Intercontinental Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 December – Al Rayyan | 17 December – Al Rayyan | |||||||||||||||||
| Cruz Azul | 1 | Paris Saint-Germain (p) | 1 (2) | |||||||||||||||
| 13 December – Al Rayyan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flamengo | 2 | Flamengo | 1 (1) | |||||||||||||||
| Flamengo | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| African–Asian–Pacific Cup play-off | African–Asian–Pacific Cup | Pyramids | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 September – Jeddah | ||||||||||||||||||
| 14 September – Cairo | Al-Ahli | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Pyramids | 3 | Pyramids | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Auckland City | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
First round
Second round
| Cruz Azul | 1–2 | Flamengo |
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Report |
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Play-off
Final
Goalscorers
Trophies awarded
Multiple trophies were awarded to winning teams in the competition. In addition to an updated trophy given to the winners of the Intercontinental Cup final, trophies were awarded to the winning teams of the African–Asian–Pacific Cup (contested by the AFC, CAF and OFC representatives), Derby of the Americas (contested by the CONCACAF and CONMEBOL representatives) and Challenger Cup (contested by the winners of the two aforementioned matches). These trophies were similar to each other, but with different coloured globes.[7]
- Intercontinental Cup:
Paris Saint-Germain - Challenger Cup:
Flamengo - Derby of the Americas: Flamengo
- African–Asian–Pacific Cup:
Pyramids
See also
Notes
- As per the rotation policy between AFC and CAF.