World Cup 2026 prize money, fees to be increased for all teams: FIFA

Football’s planetary governing assemblage promises to summation the backing for the tourney to assistance screen information costs.

FIFA says it is ‌‌in discussions with nationalist shot associations to summation prize wealth for each ⁠⁠48 teams participating ⁠⁠in the World Cup.

In effect to requests by ‌‌European teams to summation prize wealth and to assistance with costs ⁠⁠associated with ⁠⁠their information this summertime successful the World Cup, the satellite governing assemblage is acceptable to fulfil ⁠ ⁠those wishes, it said connected Sunday.

The connection indispensable beryllium approved astatine Tuesday’s FIFA Council meeting, being held earlier the 76th FIFA Congress successful Vancouver, Canada.

FIFA announced successful December a grounds World Cup prize money of $727m, with the winning squad taking location $50m and each squad receiving ⁠⁠at slightest $10.5m. Since that December announcement, FIFA ⁠⁠and nationalist associations person engaged successful talks and purpose to resoluteness the issue.

UEFA, European football’s governing body, contacted FIFA aft ‌‌hearing from respective of its subordinate associations regarding the costs of participating successful the World Cup, including travel, operations and taxes, peculiarly successful the United States. Canada and Mexico are the different big countries.

FIFA said the prize wealth connected connection is acceptable to increase, with the satellite governing assemblage projected to surpass $11bn successful gross successful the existent ‌‌four-year rhythm of 2023 to 2026.

“FIFA tin corroborate it is successful discussions with associations astir the satellite to summation disposable revenues,” a FIFA spokesperson told the Reuters quality agency.

“This includes a projected summation of fiscal contributions to each qualified teams for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and of improvement backing disposable to each 211 subordinate associations.

“The FIFA World Cup 2026 volition beryllium groundbreaking successful presumption of its ⁠⁠financial publication to the planetary shot community, and FIFA ⁠⁠is arrogant to beryllium successful its strongest ever fiscal presumption to payment the planetary crippled done its FIFA Forward programme.”

The biggest portion of FIFA’s archetypal backing bundle for the North American showpiece – $655m – ⁠⁠was to beryllium performance-based payments to the 48 participating nations.

Additionally, each qualified federation would beryllium entitled to $1.5m to screen mentation costs.

FIFA’s 2025 yearly study said ‌‌93 percent of its full budgeted gross had already been contracted by the extremity of 2025, acknowledgment to the occurrence of the inaugural 32-team Club World Cup held ‌‌in ‌‌the US past year.

The World Cup volition tally from June 11 to July 19.