Liverpool are guaranteed to have a place at Fifa’s first 24-team Club World Cup which is being held in the summer of 2021, it can be revealed.

Uefa, which is deciding how the eight European teams will be selected, has agreed with Fifa that the Champions League winners for the four years before the tournament will make up four of those teams, meaning that Liverpool and Real Madrid will definitely be involved.

A source with knowledge of the talks between Fifa and Uefa told The Times that an agreement had been reached that the Champions League winners of 2018 (Real Madrid), 2019 (Liverpool), 2020 and 2021 would be involved. The tournament is to take place in June 2021 and is likely to be held in