With the newly expanded FIFA Club World Cup on the horizon, which clubs have the best chances of taking home the trophy?

Germain, they were celebrating their first-ever Champions League title after drubbing Inter Milan, 5-0, in the Final in Munich. It was a win decades in the making, and that day will go down as the most important in the history of France’s most famous club.

Franco Mastantuono showed to be one of the best players in the world and he's now set to join Real Madrid after the Club World Cup. The head coach, Marcelo Gallardo, has the experience needed to bring the Argentinian side to success, and thanks to a talented team he can hope to make his way in the tournament.

Nevertheless, with global giants such as Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Manchester City and Juventus all striving for silverware in North America, many an interesting storyline could be written between June 14 and July 13. Here, Sports Mole provides group-by-group predictions for the 2025 Club World Cup.

Thirty-two clubs from around the world will compete in the Club World Cup, which begins Saturday night when Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami hosts Al Ahly, the champions of the Egyptian Premier League. Messi and Miami are +100 favorites on the three-way moneyline for Saturday’s curtain-raiser.

In principle there ought to be nothing particularly contentious about a competition to decide the best club side in the world. Between 1960 and 2004 the champions of Europe and South America faced off for bragging rights,