Club World Cup 2025: What can Africa expect from expanded tournament?

All four African sides receive a participation fee of $9.55m – the same as the representatives from Asia and the North and Central American and Caribbean region.

That figure dwarfs the $4m prize money handed to this year’s African Champions League winners Pyramids.

Yet African clubs are among the poor relations at the Club World Cup. South America’s six representatives will all get $15.21m, while the payments for the 12 European sides range from $12.81m to a staggering $38.19m.

A group stage victory is worth $2m and a draw $1m, and the overall champions crowned in East Rutherford on 13 July will pocket $40m.

The long-term question is whether the huge sums on offer could impact club competition back on the continent – especially given that between them Al Ahly, Esperance, Wydad and Sundowns won every edition of the African Champions League between 2016 and 2024.

Fifa, however, says that all revenues from the Club World Cup will be distributed to club football across the globe, and it has a target of $250m for its solidarity investment programme.

Outnumbered three to one by European clubs, Africa hopes to have a bigger share of the pie in future.

“It’s a platform that we need to showcase our potential as African football clubs,” Hersi Said, the chairman of the African Club Association, told the BBC.

“We need to push for more numbers in the next editions.”