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The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. Chelsea have confirmed their squad for the Club World Cup with Andrey Santos and Liam Delap included but no place for Djordje Petrovic.
The summer of soccer will take a new look this year with the FIFA Club World Cup, which comes to the U.S. for the first edition of the expanded competition that will see 32 teams from around the world compete for a share of the $1 billion prize purse.
Two new signings could make their Chelsea debuts today as the Londoners face a Los Angeles FC side with some familiar Premier League faces in this Group D clash. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch every match of the tournament as it happens,
Chelsea play a Pep Guardiola-influenced style: a possession-focused, positional game. The nominal starting formation is a standard 4-3-3 but one of Maresca’s full-backs will usually ‘ invert’, often into the base of midfield and sometimes into one of the attacking half-spaces.
The last side to book their place at the Club World Cup face off against one of the first to have stamped their passage to the United States on Sunday as Chelsea and Los Angeles FC meet at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Arena.
As though the mini transfer window deadline last night wasn’t exciting enough, the Club World Cup continues to delivery with more drama focused around the squad announcement for the tournament
CHELSEA have left out goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic from their Club World Cup squad – causing fans to fume. The Blues kick off their campaign in the expanded 32-team tournament on Monday