FIFA to pay millions for World Cup players: These leagues and teams to receive the highest payout

The players for the teams of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been selected: Each of the 32 qualified nations can select up to 26 players to participate. Usually, the clubs with which the professional soccer players are contracted release the players voluntarily. For this they receive hefty payouts from the FIFA. FIFA pays every club a participation fee for every player they contribute and every day played. Meaning, for the group stage alone, £177.800 million pounds are paid to 400 clubs across the world. We have researched what club is to receive the largest sum during the group stage, by researching and comparing all payments of the so-called World Cup Benefits Program.

The result: Manchester City is to receive the highest sum of £3.65 million. Close second is the current team of Robert Lewandowski, FC Barcelona, with a payout of £3.65 million. Germany’s FC Bayern Munich with £3.52 million comes in third, despite the team providing the most players to teams in the World Cup. Manchester United and FC Chelsea come in fourth and fifth place, each earning £3.17 million and £3.07 million respectively.

All clubs and their total received payments can be found here:

Eight Premier League teams are among the Top-20 recipients of compensation payments: The four aforementioned teams, as well as Tottenham Hotspurs, FC Arsenal, FC Liverpool, Brighton & Hove Albion, and Leicester City. Each coming in on places eleven, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty respectively. Tottenham Hotspurs, coming in eleventh, receives roughly £2.42 million. Arsenal, on place fifteen and barely dropping below the two-million-pound-line, is to receive £1.94 million, closely followed by sixteenth-place FC Liverpool with a £1.81 million payout. Brighton & Hove Albion coming in eighteenth will be compensated with £1.66 million for its contribution to the World Cup teams. Finishing off the Top-20 is Leicester City on twentieth place, earning about £1.56 million.

The total received payments of Premier League clubs can be found here:

Earning a total of £34.83 million, the Premier League is this year’s World Cup top earner. Making almost half of that, the German Bundesliga is coming in second, earning roughly £18.78 million for its contributions. Spain’s La Liga will be compensated with £18.05 million – third place globally.

The amount of money received by other soccer leagues around the world can be found here:

Considering that Italy will not take part in the 2022 World Cup, teams of the Series A will still profit from a total payout of £14 million, earning the league the fourth place of this ranking. Concluding the Top-Five is France’s Ligue 1, earning £13.18 million and the fifth place of this ranking.

Considering that teams also earn compensation for former players, it is England’s Manchester City profiting most from its former team members: £504,000 and first place of this ranking. Followed by Liverpool on second place, earning £460,600 and Ajax Amsterdam on third place, earning £431.200. Two Italian teams finish off this ranking: Coming in fourth is Inter Milan, earning £404,600 and Juventus Turin, being paid £390,600 for its talent.

An overview of the payments received for former players can be found here: