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Liverpool will not be joining Chelsea or Manchester City at this summer's revamped FIFA Club World Cup tournament(Image: Ralf Ibing - firo sportphoto/Getty Images)

Liverpool are officially the newly-crowned Premier League champions - a surefire way to argue that they are the best team in England.

However, it is not they who will represent the league at this summer's revamped FIFA Club World Cup tournament - that honour instead falls to rivals Chelsea and Manchester City.

For one, FIFA's plans to expand the tournament from the seven-team iteration Jurgen Klopp's team won midway through the 2019/20 season into a grander 32-team summer spectacle was made long before Liverpool came out victorious in the Premier League.



Chelsea and Man City are representatives of UEFA rather than anything else.

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Via FIFA, the world governing body allowed 16 of the 32 entrants to enter by winning continental tournaments, e.g.

Chelsea won the Champions League in 2021, as did Man City in 2023, then Los Blancos won it in 2022 and 2024.

UEFA then had nine more places to give away to their highest-ranked teams across the 2021 to 2024 period.

£775m is available in total prize money to the clubs involved this year in the United States with the winner reportedly set to pocket £97m.

But that said, the trade-off is entering an intense knockout tournament off the back of a season that is relentless, as it is now UEFA have upped the number of matches in the Champions League.

The Premier League is 38 matches long and cup competitions are still of great importance.

Should Chelsea or Man City make it all the way to the final this year, scheduled for July 13, they would have only 34 days to rest, recuperate and go again for the start of the 2025/26 campaign.


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