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Record FIFA Club World Cup winners Real Madrid conscionable chap Europeans, Borussia Dortmund, successful the quarterfinals.

Who: Real Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund
What: FIFA Club World Cup 2025
Where: MetLife Stadium, New Jersey, United States
When: Saturday, July 5 astatine 4pm section clip (20:00 GMT)

How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up connected Al Jazeera Sport from 6pm section (22:00 GMT) successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.

Record FIFA Club World Cup winners Real Madrid look the broadside they bushed to assertion the 2024 European crown, Borussia Dortmund, for a spot successful the semifinals.

Real lifted the Champions League trophy 2 seasons agone with a 2-0 win astatine Wembley Stadium successful London, United Kingdom, present Dortmund person the accidental to nonstop revenge by ending Real’s hunt for a sixth FIFA title.

Al Jazeera Sport takes a person look astatine the tie.

How did Real Madrid scope the quarterfinals?

Real opened their tourney with a 1-1 draw against Al Hilal but went connected to beat Pachuca 3-1 and Real Salzburg 3-0, successful doing truthful claiming apical spot successful Group H.

That acceptable up a blockbuster round-of-16 necktie with chap European giants Juventus. Gonzalo Garcia’s 54th-minute header was capable to seal a 1-0 win for the Spaniards against the Italians.

FIFA Club World Cup - Round of 16 - Real Madrid v Juventus - Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida, U.S. - July 1, 2025 Real Madrid's Gonzalo Garcia scores their archetypal goal

How did Borussia Dortmund scope the quarterfinals?

Dortmund besides opened with a gully – a 0-0 stalemate against Fluminense – but secured wins against South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns and South Korea’s Ulsan Hyundai.

Their apical spot successful Group F pb to a round-of-16 gathering with Mexico’s Monterrey. Serhou Guirassy netted successful the 14th and 24th minutes, with German Berterame tightening matters successful a 2-1 triumph for the German club.

What happened successful Real Madrid’s past gathering with Borussia Dortmund?

The sides person already had 1 rerun of the 2024 Champions League last erstwhile they met successful the League Phase of past season’s competition.

Dortmund, however, missed retired connected the accidental to get 1 backmost connected Real, who ran retired 5-2 winners successful the lucifer successful Spain.

FIFA Club World Cup - Round of 16 - Real Madrid v Juventus - Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida, U.S. - July 1, 2025 Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe comes connected arsenic a substitute

Real Madrid squad news

Kylian Mbappe continues his instrumentality from an unwellness which kept him retired of the radical stage of the tournament. The French guardant did, however, marque his archetypal quality astatine this year’s CWC erstwhile helium came disconnected the seat successful the 68th infinitesimal of the triumph against Juventus.

Borussia Dortmund squad news

Dortmund midfielder Jobe Bellingham serves a one-match prohibition pursuing a 2nd booking of the contention successful the triumph against Monterrey. It means determination volition beryllium nary head-to-head with his brother, Jude.

Head-to-head

This is the 17th gathering betwixt the sides, with Real winning connected 8 occasions and Dortmund claiming the spoils successful 3 of the encounters.

The Spaniards haven’t mislaid successful the past six meetings, claiming 4 wins successful that time. The tally included the Champions League last 2 seasons agone erstwhile Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Junior’s goals secured the trophy for Los Blancos.

Champions League - Final - Borussia Dortmund v Real Madrid - Real Madrid's Nacho lifts the trophy arsenic helium celebrates with teammates aft winning the Champions League

How galore Club World Cups person Real Madrid won?

Real Madrid person lifted the trophy, successful its assorted guises, connected a grounds 5 occasions, with their 2023 triumph against Al Hilal being the last.

That does not see lifting the inaugural FIFA Intercontinental Cup successful December after their triumph against Pachuca, contempt that contention taking connected the erstwhile format of the Club World Cup.

Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso’s pre-match thoughts

“I’m truly delighted with the effect [against Juventus], going through, and with the show arsenic well. We had to work, it was going to beryllium tough, but we were nonrecreational and did truly well.”

Borussia Dortmund manager Niko Kovac’s pre-match thoughts

“We cognize [Xabi Alonso] precise well. He worked 2 and a fractional years successful Germany, and helium did a fantastic job. Now he’s implementing everything helium had astatine Bayer Leverkusen astatine Real Madrid. So we’re expecting the aforesaid what we had successful Leverkusen, lone with antithetic players. We’re looking guardant to it, but you person to play shot for 90 minutes, and if we enactment everything connected to the pitch, I deliberation that we volition person a bully chance.”