Tottenham are in line to receive a portion of a £263.6million FIFA fund designed to compensate clubs for releasing players to the World Cup.
FIFA increased the fund as part of their Club Benefits Programme, which now covers 1,009 matches including qualifiers and play-off fixtures that preceded the tournament.
The competition itself is being held across the USA, Canada and Mexico this summer, with the programme covering games throughout the entire qualification process as well.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced the updated figures last year, confirming a record distribution for the tournament.
Infantino stated: “The enhanced edition of the FIFA Club Benefits Programme for the FIFA World Cup 2026 is going a step further by recognising financially the huge contribution that so many clubs and their players around the world make to the staging of both the qualifiers and the final tournament.”
He added: “A record USD 355million will be distributed via the CBP to clubs for the release of their players, and this reinforces our solid collaboration with the European Club Association and clubs worldwide as we all look forward to a groundbreaking and globally inclusive edition of the FIFA World Cup next year.”
Clubs are paid a daily rate for each player involved in the tournament, beginning from the date of their release for international duty up until their final match.
The daily rate has not yet been confirmed by FIFA, with the figure of 10,950 dollars per day from the 2022 Qatar World Cup being used as a working reference.
Using Micky van de Ven as an example, Tottenham could earn £170,751 for the Dutch defender’s participation through the group stage alone, based on those previous rates.
Should the Netherlands reach the World Cup final on July 19 in New York, the north London club could receive as much as £365,895 for Van de Ven’s involvement throughout the competition.
Tottenham’s World Cup contingent currently includes Van de Ven, Cristian Romero, Lucas Bergvall, Pedro Porro, Rodrigo Bentancur, Djed Spence, Pape Matar Sarr, and Luka Vuskovic, who has been on loan at Hamburg this season.
The presence of so many players at the tournament gives Roberto De Zerbi’s club the potential to earn back several million pounds, provided players stay fit and progress deep into the competition.
Vuskovic’s situation is slightly different from the others, as FIFA splits payments between a player’s current club and any club they represented in the two years prior to the tournament.
That means the money attributable to Vuskovic will be divided between Hajduk Split, loan clubs Hamburg and Westerlo, and Tottenham, reducing the north London side’s share from that particular player.
All other Spurs players at the tournament should deliver their full share of the fund directly back to the club’s finances at N17.
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