The Blues Surprisingly won the final of Champions League holder Paris Saint-Germain last weekend and, according to the official booklets of FIFA, since then as the first and only world champion for clubs. All the winners of the old tournament version are now on the FIFA site under the heading Intercontinental Cup, as also applies to Feyenoord (1970) and Ajax (1972 and 1995).
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The fact that FIFA chooses for this is partly because the tournament with the old setup simply continues. After the new World Cup was announced with 32 clubs as a tournament that takes place once every four years, various unions at FIFA were urged to retain the annual tournament with only the Champions League winners. This is “to stimulate the competition between the continents.”
Eight titles Real Madrid
Seeing the status of world champion to be renamed intercontinental cup winners of course therefore applies to all foreign winners in the past. For Real Madrid, these are even eight world titles.