Isuzu UTE A-League premiers Melbourne City and champions Central Coast Mariners have raked in over a million dollars from the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup alone.
FIFA have released a new report, detailing exactly how much money each club made from last year’s World Cup in Qatar, with football’s world governing body to pay out $USD209 million ($306m AUD) to teams whose players competed at the showpiece event from November to December.
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Three-time reigning premiers City and the Mariners, who won the Grand Final in June, led the way for Australian clubs.
With Jamie Maclaren, Mathew Leckie and Marco Tilio (now at Celtic) in the Socceroos squad that reached the World Cup last 16, City earned $USD709,040 ($1.03m AUD), while the Mariners – spearheaded by Jason Cummings (now at Mohun Bagan) netted $USD536,571 ($778,472 AUD).
Australia makes up 8.54% of the financial pool from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) – $USD2.03m ($2.9m AUD) with Sydney FC (Andrew Redmayne), Western Sydney Wanderers (Keanu Baccus) and Adelaide United (Craig Goodwin) also securing a cash windfall via FIFA.
Sydney receive $USD364,102 ($528,202 AUD), the Wanderers will be paid $USD191,633 ($278,003 AUD) and Adelaide net $USD191,633($278,003 AUD), while Wellington Phoenix also get $USD95,816 ($139,012 AUD) from within the OFC region in Oceania.
There is also a significant payday for Garang Kuol’s former state league team.
Goulburn Valley Suns, where Kuol made a name for himself before joining the Mariners and then eventually Premier League giants Newcastle United in January, netted the NPL3 VIC outfit $USD38,236 ($55,468 AUD).
The Suns are currently gearing up for the Australia Cup Round of 32.
The FIFA payment will be made to 440 clubs from 51 different countries, with a daily amount of $US10,950 ($6,012 AUD) for each of the 837 footballers at the World Cup, regardless of how many minutes they played during the tournament.
The total per player is divided and distributed to the club, or clubs, with which the player was registered in the two years leading up to the finals in Qatar.
This is an increase from the $USD8,530 ($12,473 AUD) FIFA paid per player at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
For Qatar, a total of 46 English clubs will be the largest recipients with a combined total of $USD37,713,297 ($55m AUD), followed by clubs from Spain, Germany, Italy and France.
Manchester City will be paid the most for a single club with a sum of $USD4,596,445 ($6.7m AUD) followed by Barcelona ($6.6m AUD) and Bayern Munich ($6.3m AUD).
Under the agreement signed earlier this year by FIFA and the European Club Association, $USD355m ($519m AUD) will be distributed to clubs under the program for the 2026 and 2030 editions of the World Cup.
