The Football World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world and countries from all continents are trying their best to be a part of it.
48 teams will participate in the World Cup, which starts from June 11, 2026 in America, Mexico and Canada, and the Argentine team will defend its title.
This means that it will be the biggest event in terms of teams, with 32 teams already taking part in 2022.
The teams of Jordan, Uzbekistan, Cape Verde and Curacao are participating in this year’s World Cup for the first time in the history of this competition.
How much prize money will the winning team of the World Cup receive?
It is the biggest event not only in terms of teams but also in terms of prize money.
This time, FIFA allocated 871 million dollars for this event, which is almost twice as much as the previous event.
Each team will receive $2.5 million to prepare for the event and $1 million to compete, $1.5 million to prepare for 2022 and $9 million to compete.
That is, just by playing, each team will receive a prize of $12.5 million, but more money will be paid based on their performance.
The winner of this competition will receive 53.5 million dollars, the winning team of Argentina in 2022 will receive 42 million dollars, the second team in 2026 will receive 3.65 million dollars, and the second team in 2022 will receive 30 million dollars.
The third team will win $3.25 million, the fourth team will win $3.5 million.
2.25 million dollars will be paid to each team in the 5th to 8th place.
Each team ranked 9-16 will receive $1.85 million.
Each team ranked 17-32 will receive $1.45 million.
Each team ranked 33rd through 48th will be eligible for the $1.25 million listed above.
A total of 104 matches were played in this competition, and 64 matches were played in 2022.
