{"id":510657,"date":"2026-06-25T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510657\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:10:09","slug":"the-club-world-cup-gets-bigger-more-premier-league-teams-to-enter-expanded-competition-as-fifa-strikes-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510657\/","title":{"rendered":"The Club World Cup gets bigger! More Premier League teams to enter expanded competition as FIFA strikes new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driving force behind the expansion is undoubtedly financial, with Chelsea having already proven how profitable the tournament can be. Chelsea earned around \u00a384m from winning last year\u2019s inaugural 32-team tournament, leading other big European clubs to lobby FIFA for it to be expanded to increase their chances of qualification.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u00a3740m prize money has been paid, with winners Chelsea thought to have earned about \u00a384m, there are still issues to resolve regarding solidarity payments. The EFC\u2019s current focus is agreeing a redistribution formula for the \u00a3185m owed to clubs across the world in solidarity payments from last year\u2019s tournament, which, as has been reported, has yet to be paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driving force behind the expansion is undoubtedly financial, with Chelsea having already proven how profitable the tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4027,45978,85,46,2619,105],"class_list":["post-510657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-fifa-club-world-cup","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}