Hello everyone, World Club Cup and World Club Shield are back. Congratulations to last season’s winners – AC Milan (WCC) and Sao Paulo (WCS). A very big thanks to Mr. Gav Harmer for organizing these tournaments successfully for 4 seasons. Take a bow, mate!! I’m very much honored and pleased to be in-charge of these tournaments this season. Myself along with the fellow admins will try our best to make this tournaments fair, transparent and successful.

As we have 100 teams in our game-world, we will have 4 single legged qualifying rounds followed by 2 legged R32, R16, Qtrs., Semis and 1 leg Final. Please look at following table for clear understanding. We have ranked all 100 teams based on their team strength which are :

Hellas VeronaStoke CityCelticOlympiacosDynamo Moskva
FC PortoBayer LeverkusenSwansea CityAZ AlkmaarOlympique Marseille
Borussia DortmundHertha BSC1. FC KölnVfB StuttgartFeyenoord
ChelseaHamburger SVAC MilanClub Brugge KVAS Saint-Etienne
JuventusRSC AnderlechtSunderlandGirondins BordeauxSSC Napoli
Manchester CityEvertonGalatasaray SKCSKA MoskvaChievo Verona
Bayern MünchenFlamengoFC AugsburgSS LazioLokomotiv Moskva
BarcelonaValencia CFLille OSCBorussia MönchengladbachACF Fiorentina
Atlético MadridParis Saint-GermainIndependienteSampdoriaAtalanta BC
SL BenficaManchester UnitedRiver PlateVfL WolfsburgBoca Juniors
ArsenalDinamo ZagrebCrystal PalaceRubin KazanFC Basel
SC InternacionalStandard LiègeSouthamptonAjaxTSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Levante UDFenerbahçe SKMálaga CFSpartak MoskvaNewcastle United
Leicester CityLiverpoolTottenham HotspurUS SassuoloPSV
São Paulo FWest Bromwich AlbionCruzeiroAS RomaShakhtar Donetsk
InternazionaleRCD EspanyolAS MonacoSEVILLAVillarreal CF
Real MadridUdinese CalcioTorinoDynamo KyivOlympique Lyonnais
Genoa CFCWest Ham UnitedWerder BremenBesiktas JKFK Partizan
Sporting CPAston VillaSantos FCZenit Saint PetersburgAthletic Club
FC Schalke 04Celta VigoDnipro DnipropetrovskMontpellier HSCFC Twente

From these, we will have 20 teams play QFR1, 24 teams in QFR2, 28 teams in QFR3. Final Qualifying round (QFR4) will have 64 teams. Winners of QFR4 will qualify for World Club Cup while Losers of QFR4 will qualify for World Club Shield. From there on, we will have 2 leg rounds till final. (*QFR=Qualifiers)

RULES:

  1. Any team failing to organize their home fixture / failing to accept the friendly requests will be disqualified automatically and the opponent will qualify for next round.
  2. In case of draw in Qualifiers and Final (1 legged) and R32, R16, Qtrs, Semis (2 legged), Top 100’s traditional method of deciding the winner will come into place which is available here : https://smtop100.blog/2023/09/20/fictional-extra-time-fet-and-away-goals/

We request everyone to extend their kind support to make these tournaments successful as always. Thanks and all the best to all the managers.

For any queries or discrepancy, please reach out to me – Tharanidharan (Stuttgart) or David Marsden (Hamburg).

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