Whereas the top prize money for the champions from 1982 in Spain was only $2.2 million, it increased steadily. Let’s check out how much prize money do world cup champions win.
Argentina has secured the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and will receive a grand prize of $42 million, setting a new record for the most money ever handed to a side by FIFA.
With a close head-to-head loss that necessitated penalties, France finished in second place and earned $30 million.
The prize money for the competition has increased dramatically over the previous forty years, as Statista’s Anna Fleck illustrates in the graphic below.
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Whereas the top prize money for the champions from 1982 in Spain was only $2.2 million, it increased steadily to $8 million in Japan/South Korea in 2002 before more than doubling to $20 million for the event held in Germany in 2006. Since then, pay packages have increased, with 2022 paying around $4 million more than the World Cup in Russia in 2018.
However, the tournament does not just award money to the top two teams.
As per Sporting News data, FIFA awarded $440 million in prize money for this year’s World Cup. Third place received $27 million, fourth place received $25 million, quarterfinals received $17 million, round of 16 received $13 million, and group stage participation received $9 million.
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