CLUB WORLD CUP ‘25

Within Nicholas V. Cusano’s combined professional planning scope across the FIFA World Cup 2026 and FIFA Club World Cup 2025, the Club World Cup 2025 component comprised approximately 2.4 million spectators in planning scope, 63 matches and 12 U.S. host venues.

Nicholas’s professional experience supported crowd modelling and venue analysis, including arrival and departure profiles, ingress and egress simulations, gate-demand and throughput analysis, capacity assessment, and emergency-egress planning.

The work applied internationally recognized crowd-safety principles and relevant guidance to support operational planning and venue-readiness decisions. These statements describe Nicholas’s professional experience and planning scope; they do not represent a CrowdSafe Group contract, FIFA endorsement, fire-marshal approval, regulatory certification, or a guarantee of venue or event safety.

AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I. Crowd Modelling & People Movement

• Crowd-flow modelling and simulation: Planning analysis of ingress, internal circulation, egress and inter-zone movements across multi-venue tournament environments.

• Gate-demand and throughput analysis: Scenario testing to inform entry allocation, screening capacity and staffing decisions.

• Capacity and emergency-egress assessment: Scenario-based calculations to support venue and authority review; this does not constitute fire-marshal approval or regulatory certification.

• Arrival and departure profiling: Analysis of transport modes, timing and spectator demand to support venue-specific operational planning.

II. Operational Decision Support

• Security-screening throughput analysis: Modelling to inform screening layouts, lane demand and staffing assumptions.

• Operational reporting: Planning outputs intended to support coordination, readiness reviews and match-by-match decision-making.

• Event planning and review: Professional analysis supporting venue-readiness discussions without implying approval authority or guaranteed outcomes.