The Club World Cup is not too popular at present. What are the specific reasons?

Before there is no hot topic in the Club World Cup, there is something that needs to be popularized, that is, what is the difference between the Club World Cup and the Toyota Cup. Some fans said that the predecessor of the Club World Cup was the Toyota Cup. Is this statement correct? This statement needs to be improved.

Let’s talk about the Toyota Cup first.

Toyota Cup is actually the "Intercontinental Cup", Intercontinental Cup, and another name is European/South American Cup. It is a competition jointly hosted by the European Football Association and the South American Football Association. It is a competition held by the strongest clubs in Europe and South America every year. The teams participating in the competition are the Champions League champions and the South American Liberators Cup champions, starting in 1960.

From 1980, Japan's Toyota Motor Company sponsored the Cup and named it the Toyota Cup. The competition location was originally held at the Tokyo National Arena, Japan, and then it was held at the Yokohama International Comprehensive Arena.

It was not until 2005 that this event was officially replaced by the FIFA Club World Cup, which is what everyone now commonly known as the "Club World Cup". How did his predecessor come about in the Club World Cup? Old fans must also know that the Club World Cup was held in 2000, and eight teams came to participate.

There are Manchester United, Corinthian, Da Gama, Necasa, Real Madrid, Riyadh victory, Casablanca Raja and South Melbourne Club, and these eight teams are participating in it. The final champion is Corinthians. In 2001, the second Club World Cup was originally intended to be held, but it was postponed. The reason for the postponement is that there are conflicts in the event arrangements, conflicts with the European League and other competition schedules, and the arrangements cannot be coordinated; there are also financial issues, FIFA's market partner ISL Worldwide declared bankrupt due to financial problems, which makes the organization of the event difficult.

So this event was never held again in the next few years.

It was not until 2005 that the Club World Cup was resumed, with Sao Paulo and Liverpool participating. As a result, Sao Paulo defeated the Reds 1-0 and won the championship in this event.

From this history, we can also know that the original intention of the Club World Cup is to allow teams from all continents to participate. Later, there was no way to deal with it, and there were conflicts between funding and time issues, so we had to merge the InterContinental Cup into it, reform the competition system, and operate the "new bottles of old wine" together to continue the development of this event.

Talking about this background, you can actually understand why this event is temporarily lacking popularity.

First, the quality of the participating teams is uneven, and the level of participating teams on various continents is large, making it difficult to have exciting conversations and limited audience;

Second, the time is too difficult to arrange. Football club leagues and cups on all continents are not unified and very complicated. It is not easy to get together and play football together. It is already good to allow European and South American teams to play once a year. It is very difficult to expand.

But as the story told at the beginning, the original intention of the Club World Cup was to make money, expand the team and have influence to increase the market effect. The reform of this event was always under the preparation of FIFA.

Finally, after years of hard work and more than 20 years of coordination, it was finally successfully restructured in 2025 and expanded to 32 teams to compete. Since it was changed to a contest between four teams in 2023, it has expanded its troops again, trying to make the club like the national team, each session in four years to enhance the exchanges and integration between clubs on various continents.

The purpose is also well known. Make money and see if it can attract more attention to get more rewards.

Judging from the current situation since the start of the game, the Club World Cup is still relatively dull and lukewarm, and it is not said to have reached the World Cup. This is easy to understand, and it can be seen from the state of each team.

First, the difference in strength is too big. With Bayern's 10:0 Auckland City, everyone knows that they will definitely not pay much attention to the group stage in the future, and they find it boring.

The strength and weakness are clearly distinguished, and there is no suspense. Such events are unattractive. After the knockout round, we will pay attention to it if there is a strong dialogue.

There is also a way to fish, but not work hard. Atletico Madrid teams did not play seriously, and players from many European teams were still immersed in the "vacation mindset". They didn't regard this event as important and regarded it as a state of training. It’s best to win, if you can’t win, pack your backpack and go home to prepare for vacation.

专注度相当差，世俱杯的竞争力没那么强。

Many team players are in a bit coping with the Club World Cup, and have not said that they have completely invested 100% of their energy to participate.

The level of excitement in the Club World Cup is limited, and the value remains to be tested.

No wonder some fans began to call for not expanding too much. 16 teams are enough. Let more competitive teams gather together to play together, which is more exciting. This statement also makes sense.

From my feelings, I think the Club World Cup still needs to be adjusted in, so I will strengthen the competition system, time, logistics management, etc. It is too early to talk about scale.

Only when everyone sincerely accepts this event and prepares carefully can we say that this competition is competitive and it still takes time to adjust.