Matt Lyons
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first heard Jun 2026
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Yes, so FIFA was founded in 1904 and headquartered in Switzerland in 1932, where it's registered, as you mentioned, as a non-profit association, which means in Swiss law it doesn't have shareholders and it can't distribute profits to its members.
But that doesn't mean it doesn't make any money.
It absolutely does.
It just has to spend it, or at least say it's going to spend it, on football.
Here's FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaking in the build-up to these games.
And on its website, FIFA points to something that it calls the FIFA Forward Programme, a development fund that, according to FIFA, put $2.8 billion into grassroots football across its 211 member associations between 2016 and 2022.
So I'll update the scoreboard.
FIFA budgeted $3.1 billion from ticketing and hospitality for this tournament, three times what Qatar brought in.
Every dollar of that primary sale flows directly to FIFA.
Well, let me update you.
FIFA charges 30% on every transaction on its own platform.
It doesn't publish a total resale revenue figure, but the logic is simple.
The higher the resale price, the more FIFA makes.
Yeah, so adding up the final scoreboard, ticketing and hospitality, 3.1 billion to FIFA.
Broadcasting rights, 3.92 billion.
Sponsorship, 2.7 billion.
Add it all up and FIFA's projected revenue from this tournament is $8.9 billion.
To fever.
That $9 billion works out at around $6 million a day.
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