The FIFA Club World Cup 2025 has gone through 2/3 of the journey when 48 group stage matches ended, selecting 16 representatives to continue. The remaining 15 matches will witness the championship journey, accompanied by many bonuses, from the title prize to the achievement prize.
The team that wins in mid-July will receive an additional 74.1 million USD, starting from the round of 16. The prize for winning the final match alone is 40 million USD. The total prize of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 will be 1 billion USD, the highest in history.
Before the round of 16 started, about 3/4 of the tournament's prize money had been allocated. 525 million USD was divided among the 32 participating teams. The results after 48 group stage matches have selected 16 teams to continue. This achievement alone has helped the teams in the round of 16 earn an additional 7.5 million USD. 216 million USD in total prize money will also be allocated to the teams based on their performance after the group stage and upcoming matches.
After the group stage, the big teams in Europe are leading in terms of money earned. In the top 10 list, the first 8 positions belong to UEFA teams, the remaining 2 teams are Brazil representatives. Specifically: Man City (51.7 million USD), Real Madrid (48.4 million), Bayern Munich (45.1 million), PSG (42.8 million), Chelsea (40.5 million), Dortmund (39.2 million), Inter Milan (36.8 million), Benfica (29.9 million), Botafogo (26.7 million) and Fluminese (26.7 million).
After determining to give UEFA 12 tickets to the Club World Cup, FIFA has determined the prize money for this group. The criteria for selecting the teams are determined to be the representatives of the Champions League championship 2021 to 2024. In addition, the FIFA rankings for the same period are also taken into account. Therefore, it is understandable why Liverpool and Barcelona will not participate even though they are very strong teams in 2025.
In FIFA's way of calculating bonuses, the "commercial" criteria of the team are difficult to explain and controversial. Therefore, the actual amount of money that the teams can earn is not 100% accurate, but it is closest to the amount the teams have pocketed. Regardless of the criteria, European teams still receive much larger amounts of money than other federations.
The total prize money for each team will be 741 million USD, and up to now, European teams have accounted for 57% of them (424.5 million USD). On average, each UEFA team has pocketed 35.4 million USD after the group stage, even representatives who were unexpectedly eliminated like Atletico Madrid.
Another example of the number shows that the gap between UEFA and the other federations is huge. In total, 6 CONMEBOL teams (South America) earned 143.3 million USD. The remaining 4 federations only earned a total of 173.2 million USD.
