FIFA, the organization that governs world football, has announced that 440 teams from 51 member associations would receive considerable benefits for releasing players to compete in the Qatar competition finals in 2022.
It made this announcement through its FIFA Club Benefits Programme where it revealed the importance of clubs in player development and their support of national teams.
All six of the Confederations’ clubs will be compensated with a percentage of the proceeds.
The European Club Association and FIFA have a Memorandum of Understanding which governs how the FIFA CBP operates was recently renewed until 2030 during the ECA General Assembly in Budapest, Hungary, in March 2023.
FIFA’s distribution of $209 million is based on the release of 837 football players, giving each player an average daily sum of USD 10,950 regardless of the number of minutes they participated during the competition.
The club (or clubs) that each player was registered with during the two years before the final competition will get a portion of this total sum, which is distributed equally among all players.
FIFA will distribute this money to the relevant member associations connected to the participating clubs in accordance with regular procedures.
Notably, a wide range of clubs will profit from the money given out following the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The recipients include 78 second-tier teams, 13 third-tier clubs, five fourth-tier clubs, and one from the fifth-tier.
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which was hailed by FIFA President Gianni Infantino as “the most successful World Cup ever” and is widely recognised as the greatest World Cup in history, provided spectators with an incredible tournament from beginning to end.
