Chelsea has officially updated their Honors Board to display their status as the 'very first' Club World Cup champions.
The blues defeated Champions League winners and favorites for the club World Cup, Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 in the final of the tournament a little more than a week ago.
It was a shock result, but a emphatic victory over the night, in which Chelsea took home the all -new trophy, as well as a hefty cash prize in the first iteration of the tournament in the size of 32 teams. It was previously fighting between only six or eight teams.
After the victory of the blues, it was announced that earlier winners of the World Cup would now be known as 'Fifa Intercontinental Champions', where FIFA itself called the side of Enzo Maresca as 'the first FIFA CWC champions' on social media.
This means that the will of Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona are effectively no longer world champions, while Chelsea also won the trophy in 2021.
And the blues are quickly shown to display the change in direction when updating their clubhonour sign.
On the website of Chelsea under the 'Men's Trophy Cabinet' section, a new addition was noticed by fans with eagle eyes.
On the list of their triumphs under a text section with the text: 'Chelsea has won it all! Here we describe each of our most important trophy triumphs …, 'The club has added the FIFA Club World Cup from 2025.
This was followed by a change in their triumph in the earlier iteration of the tournament, with this mentioned as the 'FIFA Intercontinental Cup (formerly FIFA Club World Cup)' from 2021.
At the time, Chelsea beat Palmeiras with 2-1 after extra time in the final thanks to a Late Kai Havertz penalty.
City won the original competition in 2023, Liverpool dissolved it in 2019 and united in 2008.
From Tuesday morning the three other English parties had to follow the example of Chelsea when changing their honors role.
All city, Liverpool and United were still mentioned as earlier FIFA Club World Cup champions on their websites.
In the meantime, the competition was played for the first time in 2000 as the Club World Championship.
It returned in 2005 and was played annually until 2023, before it takes its current form as the FIFA Intercontinental Cup in the light of the Club World Cup this summer.
Real Madrid won the most with five – most recently in 2022 – while Barcelona won four times, and Corinthians and Bayern Munich twice.
Real won the FIFA Intercontinental Cup in 2024, and it will return in 2025 where PSG will represent Europe based on winning Champions League.