FC Salzburg meets Champions League giant in Club World Cup 2025!

FC Salzburg meets Champions League giant in Club World Cup 2025!

The groups of the newly designed World Cup 2025, which will take place in the USA from June 15 to July 13, were drawn in Miami on Thursday evening. FC Salzburg from Austria has caught an extremely challenging lot. In Group H, the team meets the Champions League winner Real Madrid, the Saudi heavyweight al-Hilal and the Mexican club CF Pachuca. A gripping challenge is waiting for Salzburg because they will compete twice for Real Madrid after meeting on January 22nd in the Champions League in the Bernabeu Stadium. The draw was undoubtedly a big moment for the club, which in recent years has drawn attention to itself through excellent performance in the Champions League, as well as laola1.at reported.

Competition of superlatives

Salzburg will compete against Pachuca, followed by an encounter with Al-Hilal, where Superstar Neymar will play. The tournament format has also changed: instead of seven teams, 32 teams will take part in the future that play in eight groups, with the best two of each group moving into the round of 16. This new structure is held in various cities such as Los Angeles, New Jersey, and Miami, which increases the importance of the event, since it also serves as a test run for the upcoming World Cup 2026, such as flashscore.de explained.

In contrast to Salzburg, the two German clubs Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund have been drawn to significantly lighter opponents. Bayern Munich meets Benfica Lisbon, Boca Juniors and Auckland City FC, while Dortmund has as challenges in his group of Fluminense, Ulsan HD and Mamelodi Sundowns. However, despite this high-tech group phase, the eyes of the football fans will be focused primarily on Salzburg, since the meetings with Real Madrid and Al-Hilal are certainly spectacular. The tension increases because the final will be held on July 13, 2025 in the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey.