The tas is right to FIFA and James’s lion, excluded from the World Cup

El America of Mexico and Los Angeles They will fight for the square that is free at the Club World Cup. They will play a game and the winner will go to the event next summer in the United States, as FIFA decided. The Sports Arbitration Court (TAS) rejected the resources filed by the León de James Rodríguez Club, the Pachuca Football Club (Pachuca) and the Alajuelense Sports League Association (LDA) Against the decisions of FIFA in relation to the FIFA 2025 Club World Cup for which it prohibited the presence of León in the aforementioned tournament.

In March 2025, The FIFA Appeal Commission ruled that Pachuca and the León Club breached the FIFA 2025 Club World Cup Regulations (Article 10.1) Relative to multiple clubs of clubs. Due to this breach, the FIFA secretary General decided to expel the León Club from the competition. Pachuca and the Leon Club filed resources to annul the decision of the FIFA Appeal Commission and declare that the clubs meet the eligibility requirements for the Club World Cup. The Leon Club presented an additional appeal against the decision of the secretary general of the FIFA to return to the competition. Meanwhile, the Alajuelense presented another resource claiming the square.

All appeals were consolidated in a single case before the TAS, which was processed at the TAS headquarters in Lausana, Switzerland, on May 5, 2025. The president of the TAS panel for this case was Prof. Roberto Moreno (Paraguay), with Prof. Massimo Coccia (Italy) and Dr. Daniel Cravo Souza (Brazil) as co -art He had solid arguments in his decision.

The TAS panel has dismissed the three appeals and He ruled that Pachuca and León failed to comply with the criteria of the FIFA 2025 Club World Cup Regulations (art. 10.1) related to multiple clubs.

The panel examined the tests, including the trust (transmit goods to a third) of the León Club constituted by the club’s owners, and concluded that this was insufficient to comply with the regulation. Consequently, the Leon Club remains excluded from the competition and Pachuca maintains its classification.

A separate resource from the Alajuene against the León Club, El Pachuca and FIFA, presented on February 3, 2025, requested that the participation of the León Club and El Pachuca in the Club World Cup contravene the FIFA regulations and that one of the clubs, or both, was eliminated. The resource also requested that the Costa Rica club be admitted in the competition instead of the eliminated team. This case was seen by the TAS in person in Madrid on April 23, 2025 and was also dismissed.