Club World Cup Fantasy 2025: Botafogo Best Picks, Predicted Line-up and Team Overview
Club World Fantasy 2025 is here! Continuing with our team previews, we take a look at the Botafogo best picks, predicted line-up and team overview.
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Team Overview
Botafogo earned their place in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup through the CONMEBOL ranking system. Since South America was allocated six slots for the tournament – with spots going to recent Copa Libertadores winners and the highest-performing clubs in continental competitions – Botafogo qualified as one of the top-ranked teams that hadn’t won the Libertadores between 2021 and 2024.
Although Botafogo didn’t lift the Copa Libertadores during that period, they built up enough points from their performances in both domestic and international competitions. This included a strong showing in Brazil’s Série A and respectable campaigns in continental tournaments, which helped them climb the CONMEBOL ranking table.
Botafogo have been one of the worst sides in the competition when focusing on their domestic league. The Brazilian side sit ninth overall after winning four, drawing three and losing three of their 11 matches. What is positive though is that from the top nine teams in that league they rank second best for total goals conceded.
Interestingly though, they have one more league match before their Club World Cup campaign. At the time of writing Botafogo have managed two 1-0 wins and three clean sheets in their previous four games.
Group and Fixtures
Botafogo face off against: Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), Atlético de Madrid (ESP) and Seattle Sounders FC (USA) in Group B.
Their upcoming Club World Cup schedule looks like this:
- Matchday 1 – Seattle Sounders
- Matchday 2 – PSG
- Matchday 3 – Atletico
Botafogo come up against Seattle Sounders in the first round, one they are slight favourites edge.
After that though things get a lot tougher. The Brazilian side then go onto clash with European Champions PSG and European heavy weight Atletico. They go into both of those matches as massive underdogs.
Predicted line-up
You can check out our Club World Cup Fantasy Ultimate Guide to help prepare you for the upcoming competition.
Note: Nottingham Forest are in advanced talks with three Botafogo players including Jair, Cuibano and Jesus, so be sure to monitor those potential moves.
Top Picks
Botafogo have been reasonably good from a defensive perspective and they have a lovely first Matchday fixture. Because of this many could be looking to invest in their backline.
For those looking to spend as little as possible but want reliability then centre-back David Ricardo (€4.1m) could be a solid option.
That may be the case, but coming in even cheaper is Cuiabano (€4m). The 22-year-old has been playing out of position in left-wing. There he has produced two goals in his previous five games. Not only does the Brazilian have evident attacking threat, but he also benefits from clean sheets.
There are several great defender picks from Botafogo. Another of them is the more familiar to some Alex Telles (€5.1m). The former Manchester United left-back takes corners and free kicks, but he has also taken and scored two penalties since joining the club. He also has attacking threat from open play – having scored and assisted in his previous six matches.
If striker Igor Jesus (€4.1m) stays then he could be an excellent value pick. Leading the frontline recently, Jesus has netted three goals in his last four matches. Monitoring his potential move to Premier League to Nottingham Forest though will be crucial.
Another influential attacker in the Botafogo frontline is fellow in-game forward Jefferson Savarino (€5.8m), who has been playing in a number 10 role as of late. He managed eight goals and seven assists in his 23/24 league campaign.
There we have it, our Botafogo Best Picks, Predicted Line-up and Team Overview. Will you be picking any of their players?
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