FIFA offer unique kit change prize for Club World Cup winners ahead of 2025 tournament | OneFootball

Manchester City have the opportunity to retain their exclusive FIFA Club World Cup winners’ badge until 2029 when they head to the United States this summer.

Pep Guardiola and his players come into the tournament as the reigning champions having claimed the title immediately after their first-ever UEFA Champions League success in Istanbul in the summer of 2023.

Defeating opposition challenge from Urawa Reds and Fluminense in Saudi Arabia, Manchester City became the last club to claim the FIFA Club World Cup title in its old format, before the competition was re-branded and expanded from 2025 and operating every four years.

City will as such enter into an initial group stage at this summer’s competition hosted by the United States, taking on a guaranteed three matches against Italian giants Juventus, Morocco’s Wydad AC, and the United Arab Emirates’ Al Ain.

But aside from the new-look trophy and the significant financial rewards that will be handed out to clubs per game won and progression through the competition, it has now been revealed that an additional privilidge will be handed to the overall winners.

That is according to the information of journalist Ben Jacobs, who reveals that the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup winners will be awarded a ‘Champions’ badge to remain on their club shirts for four years, as such retaining the new logo until the next edition of the tournament in 2029.

Follow-up reporting from football insider Fabrizio Romano then surfaced the official design of the badge that will be handed to the World Champions following their triumph at this summer’s competition.

Credit: Fabrizio Romano

Manchester City hope to use the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup as an opportunity bed-in some new signings too, with an agreement for AC Milan’s Tijjani Reijnders over the line and on the verge of being finalised via a medical for the midfielder.

The deal for the Netherlands international has been followed up instantly by a pursuit of two further additions that are being eyed for completion before the June 10 transfer deadline ahead of the Club World Cup.

Those transfers concern Wolverhampton Wanderers and Algeria international left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri, as well as Olympique Lyonnais and France international attacking midfielder Rayan Cherki.