Blatter wants 16 teams to take part in the Club World Championships
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Japan will host a slimline version of the Club World Championship in December 2005, according to Fifa.
The eight-day tournament will feature the winners of the six continental club competitions, said world football's governing body.
It will replace the Toyota Cup, a play-off between all the European and South American champions.
The plan must wait for final approval at the Fifa Executive Committee meeting in London on 29 February.
The proposal is for the European and South American champions to be seeded
and to enter the competition at the semi-final stage.
"They will each play only two matches
within the space of a few days, a solution that will
improve the balance in respect to the teams' long journey
to and from Japan," said Fifa.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter said last month that he wanted
up to 16 teams to play.
But European clubs have been strongly opposed to the event's revival, arguing it would add too much to the workload of major clubs.
Corinthians won the first Club World Championship in January 2000, beating fellow Brazilian club Vasco in Rio de Janeiro.
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