Club World Cup Winners Prize Money: How Much Chelsea FC Earned As FIFA CWC Winners
The FIFA Club World Cup concluded with Chelsea beating PSG at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The aftermath of the PSG’s final witnessed members of the PSG squad involved in a brawl with Joao Pedro that could potentially see manager Luis Enrique banned for 3 matches.
Chelsea on the other hand continue to celebrate as they bask in the euphoria of winning the first edition of the newly styled FIFA Club World Cup and a prize money that could potentially amount to $125 million.Earlier in May, FIFA in a meeting with key Stakeholders which included the European Club Association agreed on a €1billion prize distribution model to all 32 participating teams at the tournament.
According to FIFA, this was the biggest prize money distribution in a competition involving a 7-match series with no plans from the World football governing body to retain any revenue generated from the tournament.
Despite the persistent public display of discontent on weather and playing surface by players, the financial gains of participating in the FIFA Club World Cup appear to have taken centre stage as clubs look forward to the next edition in 4 years.
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How Much Chelsea Earned As Club World Cup Winners
A win at the group stage of the Club World Cup is $2m guaranteed, and a draw is $1m. A win at the round of 16 is $7.5m while a quarter-final win gives you $13.125m, a semi-final win is $21m while a win in the final guarantees $40m.
According to the BBC, aside from basic participation fees allotted to all teams, Chelsea is believed to have made £62.7m for its performance en route to the final. It is also believed, based on data available at Swiss Ramble, a football finance website that Chelsea made over £84m in combined participating and Performance fees.
Prizes Other Teams Won at Club World Cup
Appearance/Participating fees deferred based on continents as the six South American teams participants earned £11.1m, while Asian, North American and African teams all earned £7m, the least earning Club, Auckland City from the Oceania region earned a meagre £3.3m which by its standard is huge as it is 7 times the overall revenue of the Club for 2024.
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The highest earner in participation fee was Manchester City who earned £27.9m but an early round of 16 exit meant they earned only £9.9m in performance-related fee.
Finalist PSG are the second highest earner from the competition with a total of £78.4m earned through participation and performance.
The Future For Chelsea FC
Manager Enzo Maresca has quietly told his players the tournament could, in the future be better than the UEFA Champions League while Manager Pep Guardiola has confessed to Jealousy from non-participating teams as they glance their eyes on those present at the mundial United States.
With Clubs able to generate extra funds from the competition to balance the books and purchase players in the market, it is anticipated more teams will jostle to be participants at the next edition as the financial gains outweigh the usual murmurs of Player fatigue
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