Club World Cup matches for Messi and Inter Miami confirmed: opponents, time, venues
FIFA officially confirmed the venues and kick-off times for the group stage of the 2025 Club World Cup.
Last Thursday, FIFA staged the draw for the first ever extended 32 team 2025 Club World Cup in Miami.
The 32 qualified teams were divided into four groups of eight and today, FIFA confirmed the definitive match schedule, kick-off times and stadiums that will host the 48 group stage matches.
As winners of the 2024 MLS Supporters' Shield, FIFA chief Gianni Infantino awarded Inter Miami a place in the competition with Seattle Sounders the other MLS representative with the Washington State side winners of the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League.
Inter Miami’s CWC matches
Inter Miami are pitted in Group A, along with Brazil’s Palmeiras, Porto from Portugal and Egyptian powerhouse Al Ahly and Messi and co. will face the African side in the opening match of the tournament at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on 14 June (2025).
Saturday, June 14 | Inter Miami - Al Ahly | Hard Rock Stadium, Miami - 8:00 p.m. ET
Thursday, June 19 | Inter Miami - Porto | Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta - 3:00 p.m. ET
Monday, June 23 | Inter Miami - Palmerias | Hard Rock Stadium, Miami - 9:00 p.m. ET
The group stage of the 2025 Club World Cup will take place from June 14 to 26 and will be followed with the round of 16 from June 28 to July 1. The quarter-finals are earmarked to take place on July 4/5, the semi-finals on July8/9 and the grand final will be on July 13 in New York.
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