Germain, they were celebrating their first-ever Champions League title after drubbing Inter Milan, 5-0, in the Final in Munich. It was a win decades in the making, and that day will go down as the most important in the history of France’s most famous club.

The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup kicks off on Sunday, June 15 with the opening match between Al Ahly and Inter Miami, scheduled for 1am BST. This is the first edition of the expanded 32-team tournament and will run until July 13, taking place in cities across the United States.

With the newly expanded FIFA Club World Cup on the horizon, which clubs have the best chances of taking home the trophy?

Thirty-two clubs from around the world will compete in the Club World Cup, which begins Saturday night when Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami hosts Al Ahly, the champions of the Egyptian Premier League. Messi and Miami are +100 favorites on the three-way moneyline for Saturday’s curtain-raiser.

FIFA Club World Cup has four matches scheduled all across the United States on Sunday. In Group C play, FC Bayern Munich and Auckland City FC meet at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati at noon ET, and the match is available on DAZN.

The new-look FIFA Club World Cup begins this week, with a stacked field of teams from across the globe ready to compete for a trophy FIFA hopes will be highly coveted by those participating.

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Nevertheless, with global giants such as Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Manchester City and Juventus all striving for silverware in North America, many an interesting storyline could be written between June 14 and July 13. Here, Sports Mole provides group-by-group predictions for the 2025 Club World Cup.