Has any channel picked up the UK rights for this?

Final is on Sunday but can't seem to find it in any listings

No UK broadcaster listed on liveonsat yet.

Disappointing that the finals are only really picked up on here in the UK in the case of an English team qualifying (although that wouldn't be to rule out the possibility of a Scottish team ever representing UEFA in it). I guess the poor time zone back to the UK as well as the calibre of team participating counts against it even if Real Madrid are more or less guaranteed two matches in it.

Perhaps the costs to secure the rights are prohibitive to a channel like Premier coming in for them here in the UK and Ireland and BBC red button coverage (or such like) would still be considered too expensive. Sending a production team and comms out to Japan on this occasion.

Finally regardless of cost, time zones etc. I think the perception of the tournament suffered here in the UK since the first one in 2000 which Manchester United were obliged to participate in and even though we've had English teams in it since the prevailing sense of opinion is that it's a worthless competition.

I remember when we was in it (United) back in 2000. We was given the opportunity to try and win it, we opted out of the FA Cup and didn't play some of the Premier League games (as the team obv was around to do so) I remember watching the 1-1 draw against Necaxa, the 3-1 defeat against Vasco Da Gama and the 2-0 win over South Melbourne where Quinton Fortune scored both goals. The BBC showed the games, it was on in January if my memory serves me right and was live at night but not stupidly late. Anyway we didn't win it and came back home to find that Leeds hadn't closed the gap at the top and we carried on that season to win the title. Strange old season! and I cant remember much about the competition after as not many if any British/English teams entered, if they did it was very low key and slipped under my radar.

Man Utd were pressured by the FA into entering what was then a brand new competition as a way of supporting England's 2006 bid to host the World Cup.

Fifa world club cup should be scrapped forever

can anyone name a decent fifa club cup game ever

Well they want to make it a MUCH bigger competition with 32 sides in it.

But i can't even muster up caring about it.

Suprised they don't at least show the final somewhere

Having not seen them all I couldn't.

Always found it a bit odd that the annual Intercontinental Cup still went ahead a few weeks earlier that season with Manchester United beating Palmeiras in Japan, basically making United world club champions one month but not the next. That competition was scrapped once the World Club Cup properly took off in 2005.

That's your view as a European based football fan. In South America, the Club World Cup is seen as the pinnacle of the club game and winning the trophy would be the high point for any player / team / manager.

It isn't perfect in its current form and I certainly wouldn't design it how it is. But don't just dismiss it on parochial grounds.

It sounds like one of those competitions that should be great, i.e. getting all the continental champions together to decide who is the ultimate world champion. But the competition never seems to have took off.

I myself have never watched a match in the competition, not involving an Engish team.

I would change it so that the existing world champions also automatically qualify.

I would get rid of the champions from the host nation.

I would suggest that the existing champions go straight into the Semi Final.

The 6 Continental world champions would play in the Quarter Finals. The 3 winners would then join the existing world champions in the Semi Finals.

Make it a pre season friendly

That is all it is worth

Sam that's an excellent point - the Recopa (which pits the winners of the Sudamericana against the Copa Lib winners) is also given more prestige than the European Super Cup is here.

There have been some good tournaments - the one where TP Mazembe went all the way to the final was a good one - ESPN showed that here in about 2010 if I remember correctly.

It makes me wonder how they are going to accommodate it when the international World Cup is in the winter in 2022, and also the year before, we have got the Confederations Cup in 2021.

Seeing how the Club World Cup is viewed so highly in South America, how are FIFA going to placate the people from that continent as I don't see how you can play both the club and international tournaments in the same month.