Is it unexpected? 🧐ESPN: Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Portuguese Super League champions all missed the Club World Cup this summer

ESPN update social media wrote: The champions of England, Spain, Italy and Portugal this season are not eligible to participate in this summer's Club World Cup.

This season's Premier League champion (Liverpool), La Liga champion (Barcelona), Serie A champion (Napolis), Portugal Super League champion (Portugal Sports)

2025 Club World Cup European teams: Chelsea (England), Real Madrid (Spain), Manchester City (England), Bayern (Germany), Paris (France), Inter Milan (Italy), Porto (Portugal), Benfica (Portugal), Dortmund (Germany), Juventus (Italy), Atletico Madrid (Spain), Red Bull Salzburg (Austria)

The European team standards previously announced:

Use the method currently used by UEFA to calculate the team coefficients of the Champions League related games to determine the ranking of European teams in the 2025 Club World Cup.

European team ranking method is as follows (only Counting the Champions League match) wins 2 points, draws 1 point, enters the Champions League group stage 4 points, advances to the top 16 and scores 5 points, and advances to each stage of the competition.