FIFA to pay out $100M in extra cash to help cover World Cup teams’ costs in North America

The financial support for pre-tournament training and expenses will now rise to $2.5 million from $1.5 million and each federation gets a $1 million raise in basic prize money to $10 million, the FIFA Council agreed at a meeting in World Cup host city Vancouver.

The total prize money fund of $655 million that was announced in December is set to give $50 million to the eventual champion.

Argentina’s federation got $42 million in prize money for winning the 2022 tournament in Qatar. That 32-team edition had a total prize fund of $440 million.

Hotel and travel costs

FIFA said it will also allocate an extra $16 million in “subsidies for team delegation costs” and giving more tickets to each federation for its games.

Under the World Cup regulations, FIFA is already obliged to pay for business‑class return flights for each federation to travel to the tournament plus board and lodging for a 50-person delegation. The hotel payments start five nights before a team’s first game and one night after it is eliminated.

FIFA also covers the cost of domestic travel for up to 50 delegation members, and “a dedicated fleet of vehicles, including an equipment truck.”

The soccer federations of World Cup teams must pay for “adequate insurance … including but not limited to injury, accident, disease and travel,” plus “incidental hotel costs” and housing additional members of a delegation.

___

AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

Graham Dunbar, The Associated Press

by The Canadian Press

FIFA to pay out $100M in extra cash to help cover World Cup teams’ costs in North America

Our Community