Pachuca or León at risk of missing the Club World Cup

The participation of the Pachuca and León clubs is seriously compromised in the next Club World Cup 2025 by virtue of the fact that the regulations of this competition organized by FIFA prohibit the timeshare of the participants to participate in the event that will take place in various locations in the United States.

According to unofficial journalistic versions, Both the Tuzos and the Esmeraldas will have to decide which team will participate in next year’s intercontinental tournament, since the competition regulations of the contest clearly stipulate the prohibition of this type of case for the teams that administratively depend on it. financial source.

It is claimed that this threat arose after the owner of Club América complained to the FIFA authorities for not enforcing the competition regulations of this tournament that prohibit two or more teams from sharing or belonging to the same owner or business group.

The details about this threat that hangs over the Mexican teams establishes that FIFA has just sent both Pachuca and León the restrictions that exist in this regard for teams that are managed under the legal figure of timeshare.

Among the journalistic versions, the newspaper Récord assured that the owner of Grupo Pachuca, which is the owner of both franchises, learned that the Televisa group went to knock on doors in Zurich, Switzerland, to question the participation of people from Hidalgo and León in the same edition of the tournament, since the television company that has its offices on Chapultepec Avenue in the center of CDMX, does not see it fair that the teams of the same owner represent the Liga MX in the world cup.

Faced with this disagreement, FIFA generated a circular that was sent to these teams with the articles where timeshare is prohibited, causing annoyance to the owners of Pachuca and León, due to the time pressure they have to find a viable solution in this regard.

Among the possibilities that exist and perhaps the most appropriate is that Grupo Pachuca finds a buyer for the León franchise as was handled a while ago and thus there may be the historic possibility for two Mexican teams to participate in the same edition of this competition.

CONCACAF representatives

For now, The teams qualified for the Club World Cup by CONCACAF They are: Rayados de Monterrey: Concachampions Champion 2021, Seattle Sounders: Concachampions Champion 2022, Club León: Concachampions Champion 2023, Pachuca: Concachampions Champion 2024, with which the historic possibility of Mexican soccer with two teams in this competition is not you will lose just because.

America could have options to participate

Faced with the fact that both teams belong to the CONCACAF zone, An alternative solution could be that under the criterion that according to the ranking of this soccer zone the best placed team is América, the Águilas team could take its place in case Pachuca or León drop out of the competition.

This is established by the latest October classification report. of this FIFA football zone and where León has the leadership, followed by Monterrey, then comes América, fourth is the Philadelphia Union of the MLS and then Cruz Azul.

What the Club World Cup competition regulations establish

For now, the competition regulations of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cupstipulates the following regarding the fact that two teams with the same owner cannot compete:

“To ensure the integrity of the competition, lParticipating clubs must meet the following criteria when they submit the participation agreement and must continue to comply with them until the end of the competition.

a) No club participating in the competition may, directly

or indirect:

Yo) own securities or shares of any other club participating in the competition, or trade in them;

ii) be a member of another club participant in the competition;

iii) be involved in any way in the management, administration and results of any other club participating in the competition;

iv) have any type of power in the management, administration and results of any other club participating in the competition.

b) No person may be involved, directly or indirectly, in any way in the management, administration and results of more than one club participating in the competition.

c) No person or legal entity may control or exert influence over more than one club participating in the competition,” stipulates Article 10.1 of the competition.

“If the FIFA Disciplinary Committee decides that two or more clubs do not meet the criteria stipulated in section. 1, the FIFA General Secretariat will decide which club is admitted to the competition and how the club that has not been admitted will be replaced in accordance with the following rules and taking into account, in particular, the corresponding classification of the club in question and the quota corresponding to the confederation or member federation to which the club is affiliated,” adds 10.4.

While in Article 11, of the participating clubs, it does not consider the scenario in which two teams of the same owner qualify, it only raises the possibility of the same team winning two or more editions of the maximum club competition of its confederation in the period 2021-24. “To access the competition, the FIFA club classification calculated according to sporting criteria will be used.”

“A limit of two clubs per country will be imposed on the access list, except in cases where more than two clubs from the same country win their confederation’s top club competition over a four-year period. 11.6 In the event that a confederation holds less than four editions of the maximum club competition in the period 2021-2024, to access the competition the FIFA club classification calculated according to sporting criteria will be used”, this is what marks the regulation.

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