World Cup 2026 Prize Money

What changed in April?

• Preparation allocation per team: $2.5m, increased from $1.5m.
• Qualification allocation per team: $10m, increased from $9m.
• Further delegation-cost support and ticket allocations: over $16m in total.

The announcement gives an overall distribution and these changes. It does not republish every finishing-position payout. We have not reconstructed a final payout table or treated announced amounts as proof of money received.

Earlier prize schedule: December 2025

FIFA originally announced a $655m performance-prize schedule on 17 December 2025, including $50m for the champions. The table below preserves that earlier schedule; it is not an updated statement of final team receipts after April’s changes.

Team distributions are not player bonuses

These FIFA announcements concern participating national associations. They do not specify what an individual player received. Player bonuses and other arrangements need separate evidence; dividing a national allocation by the squad size would not establish anyone’s earnings.

We keep the amounts in the original US dollars. A sterling conversion without an exchange-rate date, or a comparison mixing prize money with wider team support, would give a misleading total.