Meet the teams that will try and prevent Real Madrid from winning back to back Club World Cups

#3 Wydad Casablanca

Wydad Casablanca celebrating their CAF Champions League win

Wydad is one of three debutants at the tournament; the Moroccan side won the African Champions League in 2016/17, beating Egyptian powerhouses Al-Ahly in the final, 2-1 on aggregate. Highly rated Walid El Karti scored the decisive goal in a 1-0 home win in what was the first time Wydad won the CAF Champions League since 1992.

The 14-times Moroccan champions are mostly made up of local players, there are players from outside Morocco in the squad, but they don't get much game time.

23-year old Achraf Bencharki is the star man of the side as he scored five and assisted two last season in the Champions League and was voted as the tournament's best player.

Former midfielder Hussein Amotta is at the helm, the 48-year-old was hired this year following a sabbatical he took from managerial duties which lasted roughly two years. Before that he had a very successful spell in charge of Al-Sadd, ending the team's 6-year title drought in 2013 and also winning a few Qatari football cups.

The African sides do tend to spring a surprise at the tournament occasionally and it's possible Amotta's team manages to cause a shock as it was Wydad's city rivals Raja who were the last African team to reach the Club World Cup final in 2013.