Spain closed the 2026 World Cup by beating Argentina on Sunday and amassing the event’s largest payout.
The champion earned $50 million in prize cash, whereas runner-up Argentina acquired $33 million.
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As FIFA introduced in December, the biggest World Cup ever additionally options the biggest prize pool in event historical past. A complete of $655 million can be shared among the many 48 groups, with payouts starting from $9 million to $50 million relying on how far every nation superior.
England secured $29 million by beating France 6-4 in Saturday’s third-place match, whereas France will obtain $27 million for ending fourth.
The U.S. males earned $16 million for reaching the Round of 16. That prize cash is cut up with the U.S. girls’s group as per the collective bargaining agreements between U.S. Soccer and both teams in 2022.
The CBAs state that 80% of the cash is cut up between the lads’s and girls’s gamers ($246,153.85 per participant) who make the World Cup rosters (the ladies nonetheless must qualify for the 2027 Women’s World Cup). The remaining 20% goes to U.S. Soccer.
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Here’s the breakdown of how much cash every of the 48 groups that took half within the 2026 World Cup will take dwelling.
World Cup 2026 prize pool
Champions: $50 million
Spain/Argentina
Runners-up: $33 million
Spain/Argentina
third place: $29 million
France/England
4th place: $27 million
France/England
Fifth-Eighth place: $19 million
Norway, Belgium, Morocco, Switzerland
Ninth-Sixteenth place: $15 million
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, United States, Portugal, Canada, Egypt, Paraguay
Seventeenth- thirty second place: $11 million
Netherlands, Germany, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Japan, Australia, DR Congo, Ghana, Ecuador, South Africa, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Senegal, Cabo Verde
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Thirty third-Forty eighth place: $9 million
Iran, South Korea, Türkiye, Scotland, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, Czechia, New Zealand, Qatar, Curaçao, Panama, Jordan, Haiti, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, Iraq
Each of the 48 groups additionally acquired $1.5 million for preparation prices forward of the beginning of the event.
In 2022, World Cup winners Argentina acquired $42 million after defeating France. Four years earlier, France earned $38 million after successful the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Since FIFA started making the quantity of prize cash handed out public, the full quantity given to the winners has grown from $2.2 million to Italy on the 1982 World Cup to the $50 million for the 2026 champions.