The football World Cup in Qatar was worth it for RB Leipzig and flushed a seven-figure sum into the coffers of the Bundesliga club. The cup winner received almost 1.5 million euros from the world association FIFA for the secondment of players. A third of the past three seasons are taken into account, which means that Leipzig also receives a bonus for ex-players such as Tyler Adams (USA) from Leeds United or Dayot Upamecano (France) from Bayern Munich.
Overall, Leipzig comes to about 1.48 million euros. Since FIFA funds are in dollars, the total may change slightly due to the exchange rate. From Leipzig’s point of view, Abdou Diallo (Senegal), Yussuf Poulsen (Denmark), Dani Olmo (Spain), Josko Gvardiol (Croatia), André Silva (Portugal) and the two DFB players David Raum and Lukas Klostermann were used in Qatar. In addition to Adams and Upamecano, ex-Leipzigers Hee-chan Hwang (South Korea) and Ibrahima Konaté (France) were also active.
According to the FIFA key, the clubs get about 9,500 euros per player and World Cup day from a pot filled with a good 200 million euros. If a player was in the final, there is 349,000 euros, 302,000 euros in the semi-finals. 264,000 euros will be transferred for the quarter-finals, 208,000 euros for the round of 16 and 170,000 euros for a loss in the group phase.
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