FIFA has announced that the intercontinental champions, the 2025 Club World Cup winners, will collect a record $125 million in prize money, the most ever for a seven-game club football tournament, MySportDab reports.
The broadened 32-team tournament will be held in the United States from June 14 to July 13, with Manchester City and Chelsea representing England.
The total prize money paid out during the tournament is $1 billion, of which $525 million is a participation fee paid by all clubs competing. Courtesy of FIFA, however, that money is distributed in a complicated manner in conjunction with the European Club Association (ECA) to ensure that clubs get different amounts depending on their sporting and commercial significance.
Others will earn between $12.81 million and $38.19 million, with European giants Manchester City, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain set to get a minimum participation fee of close to $40 million.
Clubs from Conmebol will earn at least $15.21 million while the amounts for surpassing teams from Concacaf, CAF and AFC will be $9.55 million. Teams from OFC — including the only direct qualifier Auckland City — will be at the lowest take of $3.58 million.
Beyond entry fees, FIFA has earmarked an additional $475 million in bonuses for sporting achievement. Each stage win will earn teams $2 million; each draw $1 million.
Qualification for the knockout stages will come with increasing financial incentives that ultimately will see the champions claim an extra $40 million on top of previous earnings. The breakdown is as follows:
Round of 16: $7.5 million
Quarterfinal: $13.125 million
Semifinal: $21 million
Finalist: $30 million
Winner: $40 million
Gianni Infantino, FIFA President added that all revenue earned from the tournament would go back into club football, and that no money would be kept by FIFA. It also plans to raise a further $250 million of a new solidarity investment fund to be used to develop global club football.
“The distribution model of the FIFA Club World Cup reflects the peak of club football and constitutes the largest-ever financial rewards for a football tournament of this kind,” Infantino said.
The new-look Club World Cup is set to be financially rewarding, but doubts persist regarding fixture congestion and players’ welfare. FIFA, however, claims that the tournament will offer financial boosts to clubs around the world and still promote the sport on a global scale.
