How is the football calendar set to become even more congested?
If you think there’s already enough football prepare for the biggest change to the calendar in decades with even more matches and a new world cup from 2025 this one’s for Men’s Clubs rather than national teams and it’s a vast expansion from the club World Cup that recently ended with Manchester City one
Of seven teams in a barely noticed annual competition they’ll be one of 32 teams 12 from Europe in their new look Club World Cup and Sky News has calculated a player could would now be required for 86 matches for club and Country the additional workload for players concerns Manchester City manager
Pep Guardiola I’m not against of the new competitions I’m against for the lack of time to recovery between year by year this is what I’m complaining all the time for me it doesn’t matter to play every 3 days Six Days Seven Days it’s okay but when it’s really really tough
Finish the season and in three weeks have to rest start it again looking to the summer of 2025 there could be barely 3 weeks until the new English season begins after the club World Cup final here’s how packed the 2024 25 season could be for one player Manchester City
And Belgium star Kevin De Bru if City win this season’s premier league and Champions League next August they’ll have to fit in the domestic Community shield and Europe super cup around the start of the Premier League season then from September to December they’ll also be their newly expanded Champions League
Up from six to eight games in the group stage plus National Duty and in another new FIFA competition the Intercontinental cup and once the European season ends more national team games are squeezed in before players are back with Club teammates again with seven games in total to win the new club
World Cup players will be exhausted that Union fears I think this is a defeat for football we we as player and we as fans want to see the best players on the pitch and performing at the best level and right now with the current calendar is just physically humanly impossible
And looking ahead to 2026 there’s even more with an expanded 48 team World Cup Is wealth being prioritized over welfare and can play as cope with never ending seasons
The head of the Professional Footballers’ Association has told Sky News that the welfare of players is being put at risk by an increasingly congested football calendar.
It comes as FIFA announced plans to create a new Club World Cup in 2025.
Analysis by Sky News has found that a player could compete in more than 80 games in a single season.
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21 comments
Football is desperately trying to destroy itself. Let's hope it succeeds so we can go back to more genuine and innocent times
Why?
Imagine getting paid 100k a week to play football…
I used to do it on Sat and Sunday plus have a full time job that paid 25k a YEAR!!!!
Arteta out
Football well good
FOTTBALL BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS 😂 ITS JUST ABOUT FOREIGN MERCENARIES COLLECTING MONEY.
It is ridiculous, they want to kill most leagues
Are they adding soccer to it?
Let's just hope the woman's league follows suit. For equality, of course.
The number of players in every team should be extended to keep up with the demand
Wow, people really will watch any old s#it
They get paid hundreds of thousands a week for less than a 40 hour week.
Wait until people see the new champions league format. It is truly terrible.
😢oil and money make the world go around
Oh no those poor footballers who get paid thousands per week having to work for their money … cry me a river
If only these professional (ie: its their main source of income) footballers were properly compensated for doing their jobs…
oh noooo poor multi-millionaire athletes !!!!
86 games? Most of use have to work 260 times a year
Tv money is down but if they play more matches then they can keep expanding, eventually players will push back but now its time to push them to extremes
Give them the option of a pay cut for less games they will soon stop this demand 😂
Any job Paying me 50-100K a week, sign me up.