On Sunday, France’s Paris Saint-Germain and England’s Chelsea will play for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup title.
The winner, having vanquished top teams from other FIFA regions, will be crowned the world’s greatest club soccer team. But the champion will also reap a jaw-dropping financial reward.
Here’s a breakdown of Club World Cup winnings for PSG and Chelsea so far and the estimated tally for the champion:
Participation
Per FIFA, most teams at the Club World Cup received fixed participation fees: South American teams received $15.21M, North American, Asian and African teams received $9.55M and Oceanic teams received $3.55M each.
European teams, especially the financial powerhouses, got different deals. FIFA offered those clubs participation fees ranging from $12.81M to $38.19M based on existing commercial deals; poorer teams got figures on the lower end of that spectrum while richer teams got figures on the higher end.
(If you’re raising an eyebrow because you think that method only serves to further separate the rich clubs from the rest of the pack, you’re correct. It’s a move fueled by the immense power of Europe’s soccer elite.)
It’s not known where each European club fell on FIFA’s spectrum of participation fees. PSG, a Champions League winner and global powerhouse, was probably at the very top, while Chelsea, a Conference League winner in slight decline, was probably a few slots below.
Participation fee estimates: PSG: $38.19M, Chelsea: $30M
Group Stage
Once the competition began, though, regional affiliation stopped influencing prize money. Per FIFA, every team in the competition received the same payouts for its efforts in the group stage: $2M for a win and $1M for a draw. PSG and Chelsea both won twice and lost once during the group stage, making their earnings $4M each.
End of Group Stage estimates: PSG $42.19M, Chelsea $34M
Knockout Rounds
Payouts for the knockout rounds were simple: $7.5M for making it to the Round of 16, $13.125M for making it to the quarterfinal, $21M for making it to the semifinal and $30M for making it to the final. That means both PSG and Chelsea netted a whopping $71.625M.
End of Knockout Round estimates: PSG $113.815M, Chelsea $104.625M
Final
The winner of the Club World Cup final will add another $40M to their prize pool. If PSG wins, it will take home an estimated $153.815M; if Chelsea wins, it will earn an estimated $145.625M.
What Club World Cup prize money could buy
Prize money in the aforementioned range is impressive, even for wealthy soccer clubs. It’s enough for a team to sign one Florian Wirtz (moved from Bayer Leverkusen to Liverpool this summer for an estimated $155M), two Joao Pedros (moved from Brighton to Chelsea this summer for an estimated $76M) or six Christian Pulisics (moved from Chelsea to Milan in 2023 for an estimated $24.2M.)
The Club World Cup Final is Sunday at 3 p.m. at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
