Sources: Rose Bowl among venues for 2025 FIFA Club World Cup - ESPN

The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, is among the venues selected to host games at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, with FIFA targeting an announcement on the full list of locations in the upcoming weeks, sources told ESPN.

Other sites under consideration, sources said, include Seattle's Lumen Field, Orlando's Inter&Co Stadium, Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, though none of these has been confirmed.

The Guardian was the first to report the Club World Cup venues, while also noting that MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, and an undisclosed venue in the Philadelphia area are also set to be named.

The Club World Cup has long been pushed by FIFA president Gianni Infantino in an effort for world soccer's governing body to garner more of the revenue pouring into the club game. FIFA had planned to launch the expanded version of the tournament, initially with 24 teams, in 2021 in China, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation.

FIFA confirmed in June 2023 that it would launch a 32-team Club World Cup in the U.S. in 2025, scheduling the tournament over a four-week period from June 15 to July 13.

But FIFA has run into opposition from other stakeholders in the sport. Players, coaches and unions — including FIFPRO and the Professional Footballers' Association in England — have flagged concerns over an increasing workload. Sources have told ESPN that the Premier League is concerned about the imposition of the Club World Cup in the summer window, a space usually taken by international soccer.

There is congestion in the U.S. as well, with the Concacaf Gold Cup set to be held in a similar timeframe, June 14-July 6.

To that end,