Who Profited Most From Club World Cup $1bn Prize Pot?

The Club World Cup has had its critics but for nan clubs progressive nan competition's $1bn prize cookware has proved a lucrative incentive.

With nan first version of nan new-look tourney now complete, we are capable to analyse nan financial rewards reaped by those competing clubs.

BBC Sport explains nan breakdown of nan prize money and what it intends for nan clubs getting it.

The caller look title had a prize cookware of $1bn (£726m) to springiness retired to nan 32 competing clubs, pinch $525m divided betwixt each clubs for information and $475m awarded connected a performance-related basis.

Money awarded for information for European clubs was weighted by a ranking based connected sporting and commercialized criteria, meaning immoderate were awarded much than others for taking part.

European clubs were handed betwixt $12.81m and $38.19m conscionable for turning up, while teams from different continents were fixed a group interest - that was $15.21m for South America, $9.55m for North and Central America, and Asia and Africa, and $3.58m for Oceania.

Fifa has not confirmed nan individual amounts fixed to European clubs for taking part, truthful we person utilized estimates from shot finance website The Swiss Ramble based connected Uefa's nine coefficient system.

The prize money figures person been converted from US dollars into lb sterling.

Tournament winners Chelsea were by acold nan astir financially successful team, earning astir £84m, while Paris St-Germain made astir £78.4m successful their tally to nan final.

European clubs, who mostly enjoyed larger information fees, made an mean of astir £39m while awesome runs from nan likes of semi-finalists Fluminense meant that South American clubs made £24m connected average.

Money was connected connection for results successful nan group stage, pinch astir £1.5m for a triumph and £730k for a draw.

Five clubs, including Pachuca and Seattle Sounders, mislaid each 3 group games meaning they only received their information fee.

The £3.3m taken location by Auckland City was astir 7 times their wide 2024 gross of astir £488,000, while nan £67m made by Real Madrid was conscionable 4% of their 2024 fig of £901m.

While this is simply a immense affirmative for nan part-time club, shot finance master Kieran Maguire has concerns for nan effect connected different sides from New Zealand.

He said: "They person earned truthful overmuch money that it's difficult to spot anybody being capable to compete pinch them if they put successful nan playing squad.

"And there's a immense inducement for them to do that because it enhances nan chances of them qualifying for nan adjacent Club World Cup.

"It's bully for them, but it's not needfully bully for nan convention erstwhile you're trying to waste a competitory convention to broadcasters."

For nan European clubs, nan other gross has been welcomed arsenic a measurement of expanding their transportation budget.

In statement pinch Uefa rules, clubs are constricted to spending 70% of their gross connected wages, transfers and agents' fees - truthful for each £50m earned, an other £35m is disposable for recruitment.

Some clubs person already paid disconnected their summertime transportation business by taking portion successful nan competition.

More than 65% of Borussia Dortmund's £57.9m transportation business truthful acold this summertime has been paid disconnected from their information successful nan United States aft they reached nan quarter-final stage.

The £27m Dortmund paid to Sunderland for Jobe Bellingham has already been wholly paid off.

Chelsea person spent £198m connected reinforcements truthful acold this summertime connected nan likes of Joao Pedro and Liam Delap - £84m of that has been covered by their awesome tally astatine nan Club World Cup.

Despite Manchester City's astonishment last-16 exit to Al-Hilal, they still earned astir £38m from nan tourney - which equates to 35% of nan summertime business they person conducted truthful far.

In much elemental terms, it has paid for their £31m acquisition of Rayan Ait-Nouri from Wolves.

Real Madrid paid Liverpool a interest of astir £8.4m for Trent Alexander-Arnold to get him a period early to beryllium portion of their squad for nan title - that was paid disconnected aft conscionable 3 matches.

"It's invited for nan accountants astatine shot clubs. The business will beryllium happy," said finance master Maguire astir nan competition's lucrative incentives.

"But I'm not judge fans will beryllium happy, peculiarly of European clubs, and it'll beryllium nan aforesaid for players and managers.

"We're reaching a situation constituent arsenic acold arsenic subordinate use is concerned. We could beryllium entering a play of conflict betwixt players and owners."