28/6/2025–|Last update: 18:29 (Mecca time)
Thursday, the group stage in the FIFA Club World Cup, hosted by the United States until July 13, concluded Thursday, and its matches witnessed a mass attendance that exceeded one and a half million spectators in 12 stadiums and scored 144 goals.
The International Federation of the game (FIFA) published a set of statistics for the group stage in the competition, noting that the total mass attendance in the stadiums amounted to 1.668 million spectators, with an average of 34 thousand and 746 spectators per game.
The largest public presence in matches
The list of matches that witnessed a large public presence:
- Paris Saint -Germain, European champion and Atletico Madrid at the “Rose Ball” stadium in Los Angeles: 80,619 spectators.
- Real Madrid’s confrontation with the Mexican Pachuca in “Charlotte”: 70 thousand and 248 spectators.
- Real Madrid and Austrian Cssalburg match: 64 thousand and 811 spectators.
- Facing Bayern Munich and Boca Juniors Argentine at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami: 63,587.
- Real Madrid and Saudi Hilal match: 62 thousand and 415 spectators.
Of the 6 continental federations represented by the 32 clubs, 4 of which are still represented in the exclusionary roles.
9 clubs of Europe represent the final price, while a representative of South America is certainly qualified to the quarter -finals, given that two South American clubs qualifying for exclusionary roles (Brazilian duo Palmeiras and Bootavogo) meet in a pure Brazilian confrontation in Philadelphia on Saturday.
The 16th clubs are 10 countries, and Brazil is considered the best, as 4 of their clubs qualified for the exclusionary roles. As for the number of Brazilian players in the stages of the knockout, it is 117, followed by Italy with 35 players, then Germany (34), while the rest represents 49 other nationalities.
In total, players of 72 nationalities attended the field, and the list of countries represented again Brazil and Argentina again topped with 91 and 73 successive.
As for the third and broader -ranked country from Europe, it is Portugal (32 players), followed by Spain, which is represented with 31 players.
Continuous, the most representative countries were: North, Central and Caribbean (Mexico, 26 players), Africa (Morocco 22), Oceania (New Zealand 22), and Asia (South Korea 18).
On the list of countries with the largest number of scorers in the competition, Brazil is at the top of the list with 18, a little ahead of the Argentine neighbor (17), followed by France (11) out of 38 countries that hold the scorers with their nationalities.
Thanks to Al Ain Emirati’s victory over Wydad Moroccan 2-1 in the last Group Seven matches, all participating clubs have succeeded in finding their way to the competitors’ goal in the group stage, which witnessed clubs from 5 continents and 15 countries won at least one match.
Thanks to a total toll of 144 goals in 48 games in the group stage, which was hosted by 12 stadiums throughout the United States of America, the competition turned into an interesting competitive event that witnessed an average scoring of 3 goals per game.