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2025 Kings World Cup Clubs

The 2025 Kings World Cup Clubs (formerly the Kings World Cup, renamed to distinguish from the Kings World Cup Nations) was an international seven-a-side football tournament based on the Kings League format. 32 teams took part. Spain's Porcinos FC automatically qualified as the defending world champions, having won the inaugural tournament in 2024.

In March 2025, France was announced as the tournament's host nation, coinciding with the launch of the Kings League France. The World Cup took place from 1 to 14 June 2025.

On 1 May 2025, the Paris La Défense Arena was announced as the site of the finals.

Background

In an introductory video for the campaign uploaded on 7 September 2024, the 2025 edition of the Kings World Cup, was announced to happen at the end of the season. Spain would send Porcinos FC, the defending champions of the competition, alongside four other teams. They were to be joined by four teams from the Americas Kings League and teams from the Kings Leagues of Italy, Brazil, France, and Germany, as well as "wildcard" teams from other countries, for a 32-team tournament. The first wildcard team was announced on 16 February 2025, Moroccan side Ultra Chmicha (led by content creator Ilyas El Maliki) after the country's semi-final performance at the 2025 Kings World Cup Nations. France would be announced as the hosts for the competition on 24 March 2025, during the Kings League France team introduction and draft.

Slot allocation

The slot allocation will be as follows:

  • Title holders: Porcinos FC
  • Kings League Spain: 4 teams
  • Kings League Americas: 4 teams
  • Kings League Italy: 4 teams
  • Kings League France: 4 teams
  • Kings League Germany: 3 teams (originally 4, then 2)
  • Wildcards: 8 teams (originally 7, then 9)

Format

The 2025 Kings World Cup Clubs retained the format of the 2024 tournament, which included features of a Swiss-system tournament.

First stage
  • In the first round, the 32 teams each play one match, with the pairings decided by a random draw, with no restrictions based on nation coincidence.
  • All teams advance to the second round, with the teams that won their first-round match going to a 'winner bracket' and the teams that lost going to a 'loser bracket'.
  • The teams of the 'winner bracket' that win their second round match will immediately qualify for the knockout stage, while the losing teams will face the winning teams from the 'loser bracket' in a last-chance round. The winners of the last-chance round will join the 'winner bracket' second-round winners in the knockout stage.
Knockout Stage
  • The knockout phase will then consist of a round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals and a final.

Qualified teams

Kings League Spain

President: Gerard Piqué

  • Following the elimination of Saiyans FC in the 5th Split playoff semifinals, all remaining teams - Ultimate Móstoles, Jijantes FC and Los Troncos FC - had already qualified for the World Cup. xBuyer Team advances to the World Cup as the best team on combined points not already qualified.

Américas Kings League

President: Miguel Layún

  • Los Chamos FC won the Split 3 having already qualified. Galácticos del Caribe, their opponents in the final, were also the best team on aggregate points not already qualified, so they automatically advanced to the World Cup before the match.

Kings League Italy

President: Zlatan Ibrahimović<br>Competition Director: Claudio Marchisio

Kings League Brazil

President: Kaká

Kings League France

Kings League Germany

President: Bastian Schweinsteiger

  • The Kings League Germany, initially scheduled to have two teams in the World Cup, was granted a third spot after their qualifiers had already ended.

Wildcards

  • (New club) ― Denotes that the World Cup is the team's first official Kings tournament.
  • Kunisports is no longer listed as a Spanish club because it is set to relocate from the Kings League Spain to the Américas Kings League after the World Cup; La Capital CF will be its replacement in the Kings League.

Schedule

Squads

As usual in the Kings League, teams will field a regular roster of ten drafted players, plus guest 11th, 12th and 13th Players.

A system of international loans was set up so players from teams that had not qualified for the World Cup could play the tournament on loan in teams that had qualified.

Boomers

Manager: Gabriele Canella<br>

Dendele FC

Manager: Wellington de Oliveira<br>

Desimpedidos Goti

Manager: Fábio Ferreira<br>

ERA Colonia

Manager: Marius Duhnke<br>

FC Zeta

Manager: Cristian Brocchi<br>

Fluxo FC

Manager: Paulo Neto<br>

Foot2Rue

Manager: Samir Nasri<br>

Furia FC

Manager: Carlos Barbosa de Oliveira<br>

Futbolistas Locos FC

Manager: Simon Seferings<br>

G2 FC

Manager: Malik Hadziavdic<br>

Galácticos del Caribe

Manager: Fernando Espinosa<br>

Gear7 FC

Manager: Pol Font<br>

Jijantes FC

Manager: David Biosca<br>

Jynxzi FC

Manager: Robert Cornfield<br>

Karasu

Manager: Sabry Bezahaf<br>

Kunisports

Manager: Juan Manuel Miranda<br>

La Capital CF

Manager: Arnau Jariod<br>

Los Chamos FC

Manager: Jos Gartland<br>

Los Troncos FC

Manager: Èric Bartra<br>

Miami 7

Manager: Daniel Romo<br>

Murash FC

Manager: Kensuke Nakai<br>

Olimpo United

Manager: Alejandro Castro<br>

PANAM All Starz

Manager: Saïd Dorbani<br>

Persas FC

Manager: Gabriela Batocletti<br>

Porcinos FC

Manager: Nacho Castro<br>

SXB FC

Manager: Abdullah Al-Shehri<br>

TRM FC

Manager: Marco Bertoni<br>

Ultimate Móstoles

Manager: Álex Martínez<br>

Ultra Chmicha

Manager: Majid El Khal<br>

Unit3d

Manager: Campi Grégory<br>

xBuyer Team

Manager: Víctor González<br>

Zaytouna FC

Manager: Mustapha Ahouaqui<br>

Broadcast

The entire tournament will be livestreamed on Twitch, YouTube and Kick, both from the official Kings League channels and individual feeds from the teams' chairpersons.

On 29 May 2025, it was also announced that DAZN would be broadcasting the entire tournament for free in Spain.

First stage

First round

The first-round pairings were drawn on 26 May 2025.

Second round

Winners' bracket

Losers' bracket

Last-chance round

Knockout stage

Qualified teams

Round of 16 pairings were drawn on 8 June, before the start of the last-chance round.

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Pre-Match

On 26 May 2025, before the draw, Congolese singer GIMS was named as the headline act of the opening ceremony (branded as the Music Show)

External links

See also

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