Manchester City have reached the FIFA Club World Cup Round of 16 following their 5-2 win over Juventus.
Goals from Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, Savinho and a Pierre Kalulu own goal for Pep Guardiola’s team ensured that City made it through the group with three wins from three.
The former Premier League champions are now set to receive a substantial financial boost for reaching the knockout stages.
Once you see the full breakdown of their earnings from just the group stage, it becomes quite apparent as to why Man City CEO Ferran Soriano was so keen for the club to take part in the new tournament.
Matheus Nunes is congratulated by Man City teammates after forcing an own goal against Juventus in the FIFA Club World Cup 2025.
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Man City earn £9.5m for topping Group G at Club World Cup
Head of Football Finance at TBR Football, Adam Williams, has explained exactly how much Manchester City stand to earn, which includes them securing around £9.5m for topping Group G with three wins.
Williams told TBR Football: “With the Club World Cup prize money pot, it’s split almost 50-50 between sporting performance and participation. It’s pretty simple to work out the sporting performance element.
“City have won three group stage matches, which are worth $2m each, so that’s $6m there.
Team Points GD
Man City 9 11
Juventus 6 5
Al Ain 3 -10
Wydad AC 0 -6
FIFA Club World Cup Group G
“By securing a place in the Round of 16, that’s another $7.5m. So based on performance, they’ve got $13.5m in the bank already.
“But that doesn’t really scratch the surface in terms of how much they are going to take home from the Club World Cup all told.”
How Man City secured £24m before a ball was even kicked
Before the competition had even started, City had already secured around £24m just from being entered to play at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.
FIFA distributed these payouts based on ‘sporting and commercial criteria’, and Williams predicts that City were second or third in their ranking system.
“FIFA have already paid out around $525m to clubs who are participating in the tournament before a ball was kicked. The distribution to specific clubs is determined by what FIFA describe as a ‘ranking based on sporting and commercial criteria’,” added Williams.
“As far as I’m aware, FIFA haven’t made the exact formula public. However, I think we can safely say that it is going to be a similar mechanism to the Champions League, where clubs are ranked based on the value of their country’s domestic TV deal, their UEFA coefficient ranking, and a handful of other commercial factors.
“Under UEFA’s system, the bottom-placed team in the Champions League gets, says, £1m, then it rises in increments of £1m right to the top-ranked team, who gets about £36m in the new format.
“FIFA have said that European clubs will get between $12.81m and $38.19m based on their ranking, and the difference between those two figures is about $25.38m. So that means it’s going to rise in increments of about $2m for each of the 12 European clubs taking part.
“I think Man City will be second or perhaps third in FIFA’s ranking system, so that means they are guaranteed another $20m for the variable part, plus another $12.81m from the fixed part. All in all, that’s nearly $33m before a ball was even kicked.”
Man City’s total earnings from Club World Cup group stage
In total, City have netted around £34m from the group stage for winning all three matches and their involvement in the new tournament.
Speaking about the total sum, Williams said: “Then you add your performance-related prize money and you’re at $46.5m. These are rough figures, but they won’t be far out. There might be $2-3m margin for error.
“Convert those numbers to sterling and you have £34m. It’s easy to see why Chelsea and City lobbied so hard for this tournament.”
This will be a much-welcome amount, given Guardiola’s team have already had a busy summer transfer window, with City signing Rayan Ait Nouri, Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders.
There will surely be further plans for the summer window, and the £34m, plus the rest which they will earn from the remainder of the tournament, could aid these moves.