Chelsea and Man City in line for huge payday as Club World Cup prize money revealed by FIFA | OneFootball

Chelsea and Man City are the two English clubs in the new 32-team tournament

Big money: Chelsea could take home almost £100m if they lift the Club World Cup trophy

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This summer's edition of the Club World Cup in the United States is the first to feature 32 teams, with the winners to take home £96.8m if they win all their games.

Chelsea and City are England's two representatives at the tournament, having qualified as winners of the Champions League in 2021 and 2023, respectively. Also taking part this summer are the likes of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as clubs from all six continental confederations.

The 32 competing clubs will share £406.7m in participation fees for taking part in the expanded tournament.

A ranking based on so-called “sporting and commercial criteria” will determine how those participation fees are split, with the 12 European clubs receiving fees staggered from £9.9m and £29.6m according to that criteria, as per agreement by the European Club Association (ECA).

The new 32-team tournament will be played in the USA this summer

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Teams will play a maximum of seven matches at the tournament, which runs from June 14 to July 13.

A pot of £367.9m has been made available for performance-related prize money. Winning a group-stage game will be worth £1.5m, while the match prize for winning the final alone is £31m.

The prize money is more generous per game than in the UEFA Champions League, for example, where this season’s winners could earn as much as £133.8m but would have to play at least 15 games, rather than the Club World Cup’s maximum of seven.

FIFA insists it will not keep invest all money raised from the Club World Cup back into the game rather than pocketing any commercial revenue. It says it hopes to distribute around £193.6m to non-participating clubs with a view to growing the game.

Among the sponsors for the tournament are Coca-Cola — a long-time sponsor of FIFA competitions — and the Chinese electronics manufacturer Hisense, as well as AB InBev and the Bank of America.

In December, streaming platform DAZN was announced as the global broadcaster of the tournament, in a rightsholder deal worth a reported $1bn (£774.6m).