The format of the 2025 Club World Cup will mimic that of both the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Champions League. The 32 teams are first to be drawn into eight groups of four, where they will play each other once.

An agreement with the London-based streaming company DAZN came just a day before the draw for the inaugural event and after other networks balked at FIFA’s demands.

Soccer’s biggest ever global club tournament is coming to the United States next year and the 32-team group stage will be drawn Thursday. European powers Real Madrid and Manchester City, Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami,