The venues where the Club World Cup will be played

There will be 12 stadiums that will host the 63 matches of the inaugural edition of the FIFA Club World Cup in the summer of 2025, a tournament strongly supported by president Gianni Infantino to bring together the 32 best teams from all continents every four years and determine the world's strongest team. The event will take place in the United States, and the opening match will be played at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, a multi-purpose complex primarily used by the Miami Dolphins of the NFL and the Miami Hurricanes of the NCAA. In recent years, the Hard Rock Stadium has become a popular location for tennis enthusiasts, as the Miami Open has been played here since 2019, as well as for Formula 1 fans, since the Miami Grand Prix circuit runs around the stadium and the playing field has also been used as the paddock area. The stadium is also known to football fans as it hosted the final of the Copa América in the summer of 2024. The match will be held here because Miami does not yet have a football-specific stadium until the completion of the Miami Freedom Park, the stadium that will become the home of Lionel Messi and David Beckham's Inter Miami.

The Hard Rock Stadium in Miami is one of five stadiums that will host both Club World Cup matches in 2025 and some World Cup games scheduled for 2026. The others are the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, MetLife Stadium in New Jersey (which will host the Club World Cup final), Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and Lumen Field in Seattle. The interesting thing is that none of them is a football-specific stadium. They are all primarily home to five respective NFL franchises and, in some cases, also serve as stadiums for MLS teams' home games. This is also the case for the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, which hosts both the Carolina Panthers of the NFL and Charlotte FC of MLS. In total, for the first edition of the Club World Cup, 8 non-football-specific stadiums out of 12 will be used. Completing the list of venues borrowed from other sports are the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and the Camping World Stadium in Orlando.

Therefore, there are four football-specific stadiums. The first is the TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, home to FC Cincinnati, a 26,000-seat stadium with most of the seats distributed over three double-decker stands and a section of about 3,000 standing places resembling the old terraces of English stadiums. Geodis Park is the home stadium of Nashville SC, a 30,000-seat stadium with a rectangular layout and an open external structure that allows light to pass through to the pitch. According to the architecture firm Populous, which designed it: “There are only 45 meters between the last row of seats and the sideline, bringing fans closer to the action than ever before.” You have to move to Orlando to find the Inter&Co Stadium, a 25,000-seat venue, probably the most European of all the Club World Cup stadiums due to its unique structure that connects four stands, each with purple seats. Finally, there is the Audi Field in Washington, a stadium with a seating capacity of about 20,000 and featuring three stands inclined at 35 degrees, ensuring perfect views for all spectators.