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Liverpool miss out on 2025 Club World Cup spot and potential £50m windfall

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Liverpool’s Mo Salah after defeat in the 2022 Champions League final
Liverpool’s defeat in the 2022 Champions League final leaves Manchester City and Chelsea as England’s most recent European champions. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Liverpool have been denied a place at the expanded 2025 Club World Cup, and a potential windfall of around £50m, after Fifa confirmed the criteria around qualification for the tournament.

Back in March, the governing body decided that no more than two teams per country would be guaranteed participation in the controversial 32-team event, which will be played in the US between 15 June and 13 July. Now they have confirmed that Manchester City and Chelsea will be the only Premier League sides certain of taking part. Should Arsenal win this season’s Champions League, an exception would be made and they would be England’s third representative in a 12-strong European contingent.

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