FIFA World Cup 2026 winners’ prize money doubles to $50m

The victor of the FIFA World Cup 2026 volition get grounds $50m jackpot – inactive little than fractional offered astatine Club World Cup.

The victor of the FIFA World Cup 2026 volition person a grounds jackpot of $50m, football’s planetary governing assemblage says.

That fig is up from $42m successful 2022 and $38m successful 2018. But it is inactive little than fractional of what was connected connection astatine the overmuch little hyped FIFA Club World Cup earlier this year.

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FIFA said the full prize money for adjacent year’s World Cup – to beryllium staged successful the United States, Canada and Mexico – is $655m, a 50 percent summation connected the erstwhile variation successful Qatar.

By comparison, the FIFA Club World Cup, which was controversially expanded from 7 teams to 32 and shoehorned into the shot calendar, had a full prize money of $1bn. The prize for the winning squad was worthy up to $125m for a tourney that faced fierce absorption from players and leagues and drew sparse crowds for immoderate matches.

The Club World Cup, besides staged successful the US, was won by Chelsea.

FIFA has a antithetic organisation exemplary for the 2 tournaments. The disparity successful prize wealth reflects factors specified arsenic clubs overseeing overmuch higher costs done wages than nationalist teams.

Beyond the prize money, further funds are enactment towards the improvement of shot globally.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said the World Cup would beryllium “groundbreaking successful presumption of its fiscal publication to the planetary shot community”.

FIFA approved the prize wealth for each signifier of the World Cup astatine a gathering of its assembly successful Doha.

The runner-up volition person $33m with $29m and $27m going to the third- and fourth-placed teams, respectively.

The lowest prize wealth volition beryllium $9m and each 48 participating nations volition get $1.5m to screen what FIFA described arsenic “preparation costs”.

FIFA said, successful all, $727m would beryllium distributed to the shot federations participating.

It is not known however each federation volition administer the money, but astatine the past World Cup, French sports regular L’Equipe reported France’s players were successful enactment for a bonus of $586,000 by their federation if they won the trophy. France was yet beaten by Argentina successful the final.