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FIFA WC prize money

FE Sport Desk | June 26, 2018 00:00:00


This year, total World Cup prize money is going to be $791 million, of which $400 million will be distributed to the teams based on their performances/finishing position. The rest of it will be handed out as part of the preparation, as a benefit to the players' parent clubs and as compensation to clubs that lose players due to injury at the tournament.

The eventual winner will pocket $38 million, an increase of $3 million in comparison to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. This year's runners-up will win $29 million while third place will receive $24 million.

A total of $103m was up for grabs at the 1998 France World Cup. Two decades on, the World Cup prize money now stands at almost eight times that amount.

World Cup prize money has been increasing by approximately 52 per cent from tournament to tournament.

The biggest increase (107.7 per cent) came between 1986 and 1990. However, the pool only actually went up by $28m.

The World Cup isn't the most lucrative competition in professional football.


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