Newcastle are set to benefit from a little known FIFA cash fund after the success of their players in the World Cup
Newcastle United's Dan Burn, Bruno Guimaraes and Nick Woltemade have been in action for their countries at the World Cup
Newcastle United's Dan Burn, Bruno Guimaraes and Nick Woltemade have been in action for their countries at the World Cup(Image: 2025 Getty Images)
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Newcastle United have already benefitted from a FIFA pot of £263.6million for those clubs supplying players to the World Cup.
From 2023, the Club Benefits Programme fund was bumped up and covers 1,009 matches, not only across this summer's tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico but also the World Cup qualifiers and play-off tournament leading up to it.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced last year: "The enhanced edition of the FIFA Club Benefits Programme for the FIFA World Cup 2026 is going a step further by recognising financially the huge contribution that so many clubs and their players around the world make to the staging of both the qualifiers and the final tournament.
"A record USD 355million will be distributed via the CBP to clubs for the release of their players, and this reinforces our solid collaboration with the European Club Association and clubs worldwide as we all look forward to a ground-breaking and globally inclusive edition of the FIFA World Cup next year."
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During the World Cup itself, clubs are being paid per day for each of their players involved, starting with the date they are released for international duty, which in England's case was 10 days before the tournament began on Thursday, June 11, up until their final match in the competition.
The daily rate for this year's competition is yet to be announced by FIFA but it was £8,131 per day, per player for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, meaning Newcastle are already guaranteed a pretty penny given all six of their World Cup participants qualified for the knockout stages.
Going off that basis, and using Dan Burn as an example with England who met up with the Three Lions squad in Florida on June 1, Newcastle are guaranteed at least £325,240 with the earliest day the Three Lions can exit the tournament being Saturday, with that figure potentially stretching to £390,288 if England reach the final on July 19.
If you apply that same principle to Newcastle's other players in the competition (although most players met up earlier than June 1), Bruno Guimaraes' time at the tournament equates to at least £276,454, Yoane Wissa £243,930, Anthony Elanga £235,799, and Nick Woltemade and Malick Thiaw £227,668 each.
However, there is a mitigating factor which impacts on those finances as FIFA share the money not only to the player's current club but also any club that player has represented in the two prior years to the tournament. That would affect Nick Woltemade, Malick Thiaw, Yoane Wissa and Anthony Elanga who all joined the club last summer.
Newcastle United forward Yoane Wissa has shone at the World Cup for DR Congo
Newcastle United forward Yoane Wissa has shone at the World Cup for DR Congo(Image: 2026 Getty Images)
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But even if you half their figures and add them to Burn and Guimaraes' figures, Newcastle have banked at least £1.07million and that is before factoring in Newcastle will be entitled to a chunk of the money afforded for Anthony Gordon, Alexander Isak and Miguel Almiron, too.
Meanwhile, they will also be entitled to around £121,965 for Tino Livramento's 15 days in the England camp before he withdrew with injury.
If you factor all of that together, Newcastle are guaranteed to bank a seven-figure sum and they will get a better idea of how much they will bank overall once the latest figures are released and when England exit the tournament.