This is Fifa’s new fad: after the first 32-player Club World Cup, the international body chaired by Gianni Infantino will organize a Women’s Club World Cup, as announced last March. The tournament will bring together 19 teams from January 5 to 30, 2028, in two years, and it is Qatar which could host this competition, as indicated by The Guardian on Wednesday. With OL and PSG?
UEFA will send five teams to the Women’s Club World Cup, namely the 2025, 2026 and 2027 winners of the Champions League (i.e. Arsenal, winner on May 24), as well as two other teams, probably via the women’s club rankings. If the Lyonnes do not win the women’s C1 this season or next year, they could be caught up thanks to their current 2nd place behind Barça in the coefficient of women’s teams.
The format is rather simple despite the strange number of 19 participants. Six teams will first compete in three play-offs and complete a group stage of four groups of four. Quarter-finals will then determine the last four of the competition. Wuhan Jiangda, AS FAR (Rabat club), Gotham FC (New York team) and Corinthians are the others qualified.
Women’s PSG must win the LDC
For the PSG players, it will be much harder! The European season of the Rouge et Bleu led by Paulo César was catastrophic with a penultimate place in the first round of C1, with no victories, two draws and four defeats. As a reminder, the men’s team is already qualified for the next 2029 Club World Cup, perhaps in Morocco, not as a finalist against Chelsea but thanks to the 2025 LDC won by Luis Enrique and his players.
In the UEFA women’s club rankings, the Parisiennes are currently 7th behind Barça, OL, Chelsea, Bayern, Arsenal and Wolfsburg. To participate in the Women’s Club World Cup at the start of 2028, you will therefore have to win the Champions League next season. An almost impossible mission as PSG’s best players have left the club in recent years, notably to join OL.
