Arsenal will be one of numerous clubs to make millions from the FIFA Club Benefits Programme following the World Cup this summer.
Arsenal are set to receive a seven-figure sum from the FIFA Club Benefits Programme for its players’ participation in the World Cup this summer. The Gunners will have 16 players representing their countries at the tournament, which gets underway next week across Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Thomas Tuchel has named Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, Noni Madueke, and Eberechi Eze in the England squad. Only Harry Kane scored more goals than the 27-year-old midfielder, who Arsenal signed from Crystal Palace last summer for £68m, during the qualifying campaign.
David Raya, Martin Zubimendi, and Mikel Merino have each been called up by Luis de la Fuente and tasked with building on the European Championship they won a couple of years ago. William Saliba, who’s been given the nod by France, watched from the sidelines as Didier Deschamps’ side lost the World Cup final to Argentina on penalties in December 2022.
Gabriel Magalhaes and Gabriel Martinelli will represent Brazil this summer, while Martin Odegaard has been named captain of Norway after leading them to their first major competition since Euro 2000. Kai Havertz will be part of a feisty Germany squad led by Julian Nagelsmann, determined to rectify their shock group stage exit in Qatar.
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Meanwhile, Leandro Trossard, Viktor Gyokeres, Piero Hincapie, and Jurrien Timber have been called up by Belgium, Sweden, Ecuador, and the Netherlands, respectively. Manchester City will be the only Premier League club to have more players (19) at the World Cup this summer than Arsenal (16).
The Gunners are set to be handsomely rewarded by the Club Benefits Programme, which pays teams for the time that their registered players spend while on international duty. FIFA pays each club per player, per day.
So, the further a country progresses in the tournament, the more players earn for their respective teams, irrespective of their playing time. According to FIFA, the scheme paid $10,950 (£8,178) per player, per day, to teams for their participation at the World Cup in 2022.
They evenly distributed $209m (£156.1m) to 440 clubs from 51 associated members across all six confederations. Then, in September 2025, FIFA announced it would allocate $355m (£264m) to the Club Benefits Programme ahead of the next edition of the tournament.
The governing body is yet to announce the day rate for the World Cup this summer, with teams also set to be rewarded for players’ participation in the qualifying stage.
So, excluding the appearance money earned earlier in the season and assuming Saliba was released for international duty on June 4, he could secure Arsenal a fee of £365,895 if France go the distance and win the competition on July 19 in New York.
Using the same logic, if England were to win the World Cup, the Gunners would be paid £1,463,580, with Saka, Rice, Madueke, and Eze each raking in £365,895 in participation fees. Arsenal could also earn around £170,751 per player just for their time with their country in the group stage.
So, in a worst-case scenario, if none of the Gunners manage to reach the knockout stages of the tournament, the club would bank a combined £2,732,016. football.london also understands that FIFA share a slice of the money to any club that a player has represented in the two prior years to the tournament, too.
So, any fee earned from Hincapie, Eze, Madueke, Zubimendi, Gyokeres, and Merino, who have either recently joined Arsenal or spent some time on loan, will be split with their former clubs.
