The International Football Federation (FIFA) announced today that it will pay $209 million to the clubs whose players participated in last year's World Cup in Qatar. The amount will be distributed to 440 clubs from 51 different countries whose players took part in the tournament, held in November and December, which was won by Argentina.
FIFA will pay a daily amount of $10,950 for each of the 837 players in the World Cup, regardless of the number of minutes they played during the tournament. Each player's total will be divided and distributed to the club or clubs the player was with in the two years leading up to the Qatar 2022 finals.
This amount represents an increase from what FIFA paid each player for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, which was $8,530.
For the Qatar tournament, 46 English clubs will receive funds from FIFA, the highest number from a single country, totaling $37,713,297, followed by clubs from Spain, Germany, Italy, and France.
Manchester City will receive the largest amount for a single club, totaling $4,596,445, followed by Barcelona with $4,538,955, and then Bayern Munich.
Under the agreement signed earlier this year between FIFA and the European Clubs Association, $355 million will be distributed to clubs as part of the programs for the 2026 and 2030 World Cups.
