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FIFA Club World Cup 2025 - 11:00am • 15 June 2025
TQL Stadium - Cincinnati, Ohio
- Auckland City are the only amateur side to qualify for the expanded 32-team tournament in the USA.
- Auckland have represented Oceania 11 times at the Club World Cup with a best result of a third place in 2014.
- This will be the first meeting between the teams and Auckland's first against German opposition.
- Auckland qualified for the tournament via the rankings pathway by being the most successful side in the OFC Champions League over the past four years.
- The Navy Blues are the biggest force in New Zealand, winning the New Zealand Football Championship nine times since they were founded in 2004, as well as 10 of the past 12 OFC Champions Leagues.
- By expanding the Club World Cup, FIFA has changed the way it is run. The format mirrors a 32-team international World Cup.
- Eight groups of four teams in each. The top two teams from each group will make it through the last 16, while the bottom two teams in each group will be eliminated.
- Cross over games will happen with the last 16, with the winners of those games moving on to the quarterfinals, semifinals and final.