Nearly 1.5 Million Tickets Sold For The 2025 Club World Cup

FIFA has confirmed that nearly 1.5 million tickets for the 2025 Club World Cup have been sold out (Instagram/@fifaclubworldcup).

JAKARTA - Supporters from more than 130 countries have purchased nearly 1.5 million tickets for the 2025 Club World Cup which began last weekend in a new format expanded across the United States.

More than 60,000 people attended the opening match at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday, 15 June 2025 WIB, featuring Lionel Messi from Inter Miami.

While about 80,000 people were in the Rose Bowl stands as Paris Saint-Germain beat Atletico Madrid 4-0 on Monday, June 16, 2025 WIB.

However, several matches were also attended by only a few spectators, such as the 0-0 draw between Borussia Dortmund and Fluminense which began at noon on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, which was played at the MetLife Stadium.

To the extent that Chelsea's manager, Enzo Maresca, described the atmosphere in his team's match against LAFC as a bit strange as more than 22,000 supporters came to watch at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, which has a capacity of 71,000 on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 WIB, for the match which started at 3 pm local time.

"This is the goal of the 2025 Club World Cup, a world-class stage where new stories are told."

"New heroes appear and football fans feel they are part of something bigger," FIFA president Gianni Infantino said in a statement.

Designed as a sparkling opening for the 2026 World Cup, FIFA hopes to build enthusiasm for the four-yearly open tournament among football supporters who are often ambivalent in the United States, who will co-host Canada and Mexico.

Concerns about how the 2025 Club World Cup will be accepted have been rampant, after the loyo Copa America 2024 -- which played on the pitch was less than good to stadiums that were sometimes half empty and ended in a security failure of supporters in the final in Miami.

There are also concerns about the players' workload, with this summer's tournament adding at least three and to seven games to the team that just finished the European season and started the 2025/2026 season in August 2025.

La Liga president Javier Tebas called the 2025 Club World Cup unreasonable and added on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, that the tournament needed to be removed from FIFA's schedule.

The team that won the final on July 13, 2025, will earn 40 million US dollars from a 1 billion US dollar prize.