Why Barcelona missed the Club World Cup? Strict criteria prohibit the audience, “the most enjoyable player and team!”

“The event started and the absence is unjust” .. The 2025 Club World Cup in America started with the participation of 32 teams for the first time, in the absence of Barcelona, ​​which constituted a strong blow to the lovers of the Catalan club and the tournament lost a fun team with a worldly historical and popular value around the world.

Why Barcelona missed?

A question that is strongly frequently answered by the strict qualification criteria set by the International Football Association (FIFA), which deprived the Catalan club from attending the global wedding, and with him the rising star rapidly missed the missile to the Secretary Jamal, who is currently the most enjoyable player in the world and its market value exceeds more than 200 million euros.
“FIFA” relied on the choice of European representatives on the cumulative performance in the Champions League between 2021 and 2024, using the points system based on the achievements in each season, but Barcelona’s continental numbers were disappointing in the past three years after it came out in the 2021-2022 season of the group stage after its third solution 2022-2023 and came out again from the group stage behind Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.
In the 2023 -2024 season, he improved relatively as he qualified for the quarter -finals, but lost to Paris Saint -Germain.
With these results, Barcelona did not reach any semi -final during the period specified by “FIFA”, which made its balance in the “FIFA” continental classification less than Real Madrid (champion 2021-22, 2023-24), Manchester City (champion 2022-23), and Atletico Madrid (with higher cumulative points than Barcelona in the same period).
Consequently, Barcelona lost one of the three seats allocated to Spanish clubs in the new World Cup.

Huge financial losses

Barcelona not only lost the World Cup in this historical version, but also deprived itself of financial returns exceeding 50 million euros, a rare opportunity to enhance popularity in the American market.
Barcelona lost the stars of the new generation as opportunities to be on the individual coronation platform, most notably the golden ball that might go to the player from Paris Saint -Germain if the team crowned the World Cup.

Angry fans … and previous departments pay the price

Barcelona fans held the full responsibility of the previous departments that were very late in building a team capable of keeping the elder in the Champions League, so it was “silent exclusion” from the Club World Cup.
Former Dutch coaches Ronald Koman and Spanish Xavi Hernandez tampered with the team’s tactic before the contract with German coach Hanzi Felk, who knew how to formulate the shining jewels of the club with an ideal offensive tactic, almost arrived in the club to the European Champions final this season 2024-2025 had it not been for the farewell of the semi-finals against Inter (4-4 back and 4-5 Forest).
Nevertheless, there are strong indicators that push Barca’s participation in the FIFA World Cup after four years with a young, old, tender generation.