Rangers are one of eight sides currently occupying a guaranteed FIFA Club World Cup spot – and it comes with major European incentives.
The game's governing body will kick off the revamped tournament in 2025, which will run every four years with 32 teams. Twelve of those sides will be made up from UEFA, including the Champions League winners between 2020-21 and 2023-24 - meaning Chelsea, Real Madrid and the winners of this year's final would go in automatically - and eight other teams 'determined by a club ranking based on the same four-year period’. FIFA chiefs have ruled though 'that only one slot per nation can come from the coefficient table for the tournament' to ensure greater representation.
According to The Sun, it is why Liverpool and Man United are so keen for the Citizens to win Saturday's UCL final with Inter, as it 'would open up the slot for the two to fight over,' with Jurgen Klopp's men in the driving seat. The report goes on to claim that the other teams currently in position for Club World Cup spots are 'Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Roma, Villarreal, PSG, Benfica, Ajax and Rangers’. Barcelona, Juventus and Borussia Dortmund are among those out in the cold.
