The 2025 Club World Cup prize money will be lower than FIFA initially announced: here’s how much soccer teams can earn for participating in the tournament.
2025 Club World Cup Prize Money: in the end, the money put up for grabs by FIFA will be much less than initially feared, but the 32 teams participating in the first edition of this tournament will still take home a nice little nest egg.
Initially, in fact, FIFA had spoken of a total prize money of 2 billion dollars, a way to silence the protests - especially from the players - for a very long tournament that will clog up a football calendar practically without breaks.
At the end of March, when FIFA made the prize money for the 2025 Club World Cup official, here is the surprise: the prize money will be 1 billion dollars, half of what was promised and almost a third of that of the Champions League.
Let’s see then how much soccer teams can earn at the 2025 Club World Cup, analyzing in detail the prize money of the first edition of this new tournament strongly desired by FIFA.
2025 Club World Cup prize money
As mentioned, the 2025 Club World Cup prize money will be 1 billion dollars, a rich cake that will be divided among the 32 participating teams.
FIFA has announced that the 2025 Club World Cup prize money will be divided as follows: 525 million as a fixed participation fee for the 32 teams, while the remaining 475 million will be given in the form of performance-based bonuses.
“In addition to the prize money for the participating teams - FIFA added in its statement - there is an unprecedented solidarity investment programme in which we have a target of an additional 250 million dollars to provide to club football around the world. This solidarity will undoubtedly provide a significant boost to our ongoing efforts to make football truly global”.
According to FIFA, all revenues will be distributed to club football, with the TV rights of the 2025 Club World Cup having been assigned to Dazn for 1 billion dollars: the broadcaster has committed to broadcast all the matches for free.
From the box office point of view, so far there have been few tickets sold, so much so that tickets have now been put on sale at a bargain price with a consequent refund for those who had bought the ticket at full price.
2025 Club World Cup: teams earnings
To understand how much they can earn, we need to proceed step by step. First there is the guaranteed token which for European clubs ranges from 12.81 to 38.19 million dollars based on the ranking.
For example, based on this, Inter should receive a fixed portion of 24 million, while Juventus will have to settle for a figure of between 18 and 20 million.
Then there is the portion of the prize money assigned based on the results. For the three group matches, the clubs will collect 2 million for each win and 1 million for draws.
The bulk, however, will be distributed based on the various round progression according to this system.
- Round of 16: 7.5 million
- Quarter-finals: 13.125 million
- Semi-finals: 21 million
- Finalist: 30 million
- Winner: 40 million
Adding up all these items, for FIFA the winner of the Club World Cup 2025 will earn around 125 million dollars, a significant figure even if lower than the initial estimates.
Then there are all the indirect advantages linked to the presence in the Club World Cup: from sponsors to marketing to social. In essence, in addition to cash, many other revenue items would increase significantly.
Original article published on Money.it Italy. Original title: Montepremi Mondiale per Club 2025, quanto guadagnano Inter e Juve. L’inganno della Fifa
