After Arsenal were eliminated from the quarterfinals of the Champions League, the newly restructured Club World Cup next summer will also have a list of 12 teams in Europe. Austria's Red Bull Salzburg "unexpectedly" won the last place in the Club World Cup, while Arsenal did not participate and lost at least 50 million euros in prize money.
There are 32 teams competing in the new edition of the Club World Cup, with 12 teams from Europe participating in the competition, including four Champions League winners from 2020/21 to 2023/24 and eight teams with the highest ranking coefficient (calculated over a four-year period by UEFA). Before Arsenal exited the Champions League, they had a chance to qualify by winning the Champions League, but after Arsenal were eliminated by Bayern Munich, all the teams in this season's Champions League semi-finals have already qualified for the Club World Cup, and the place is ceded to the ninth highest-ranked team, Red Bull Salzburg.
Salzburg's most powerful performance in the past four seasons is to break into the Champions League round of 16 knockout round, why can it overwhelm such European giants such as Barcelona, Manchester United, Arsenal and AC Milan? The reason is that the competition system stipulates that each country / region can only have a maximum of 2 teams, taking the Premier League as an example, they have already qualified for the Champions League 2 Champions League champions Manchester City and Chelsea, so there will be no more teams to participate by coefficient rankings, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, There are already 2 teams in the Portuguese Super League, and they are topped by Austria's Red Bull Salzburg.
List of European teams in the Club World Cup
Chelsea (England) – (Champions League 2020/21)
Real Madrid (Spain) – (Champions League 2021/22)
Manchester City (England) – (Champions League 2022/23 winners)
Bayern Munich (Germany)
Paris Saint-Germain (France)
Inter Milan (Italy)
Porto (Portugal)
Benfica (Portugal)
Dortmund (Germany)
Juventus (Italy)
Atletico Madrid (Spain)
Red Bull Salzburg (Austria)