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Fifa to hand out $1 billion in prize money to teams at Club World Cup

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Football’s world governing body will also make ‘solidarity payments’ to appease absentees at this summer’s eventFIFA president Gianni Infantino. Photo: PATeams not participating in Fifa’s Club World Cup are set to receive “solidarity money” of at least $150m (€139m), out of a planned tournament budget of $2bn. The world governing body are then committing $1bn of prize money to the 32 clubs involved in this summer’s event, with $575m based on participation and $465m based on sporting performance.That could see Manchester City and Chelsea receive between $60m and $90m each, in a development that has raised concern among rivals and other stakeholders about the potential disruptive effect of such money.

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