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Wrote:
Ahmed Sherif
Saturday 3 October 2020
21:53
Al-Nasr Saudi Club has the opportunity to participate in the Club World Cup 2021, which is scheduled to be held in China, with the participation of 24 teams for the first time in the history of the competition.
Al-Nasr said goodbye to the AFC Champions League after losing Saturday’s semi-finals to Iranian team Persepolis, which secured their qualification to participate in the tournament.
The Iranian national team has definitely secured its presence in the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup, but has not guaranteed its presence in the 2020 edition, which will be held in Qatar during the month of December, waiting for it to be crowned in the Asian Championship or not.
The AFC had previously announced that the top three clubs in the 2020 AFC Champions League would qualify for the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup in China.
The champion of the same version of the Asian championship will be the only representative of the continent in the Qatar World Cup 2020, which is supposed to be the last of the current system with seven participating teams.
Al-Nassr, the losing team in the East Asia semi-finals of the Champions League, will be waiting for the match to determine the third-placed, who will qualify to face the Oceania champions to determine the China World Cup qualifier.
The matter differs on the African continent, after the African Union “CAF” announced in an official statement in November 2019 that the three clubs with the first places in the 2020-2021 edition of the African Champions League will be representatives of the continent. in the World Cup in China.
According to the latest schedule announced by CAF a few weeks ago, the 2020-2021 CAF Champions League will conclude its matches in the month of July.
As for the current version, which Al-Ahly and Zamalek still hope to win, only their champion will qualify to participate in the next Club World Cup in Qatar.
Current regulations remain hostage to a FIFA decision on the establishment, postponement or cancellation of any version of the World Cup, be it 2020 or 2021, due to the Corona pandemic.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on September 21 that the establishment of the next tournament in Qatar faces great difficulty due to Corona, in addition to the fact that the continental federations have not yet finished their tournaments.
Infantino hinted at the end of his statements that there are all possibilities regarding the 2020 Club World Cup, which will also imply decisions regarding the 2021 edition.
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