Celtic World Cup Payments Per Player Revealed

By
Michael Ross
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Celtic have learned the figures they are set to receive for releasing their stars to play at the World Cup.

The Hoops had as many as eight players performing with their nations at the summer tournament and were paid out by FIFA for their participation.

Celtic knew they would receive a pretty penny after the competition with some of their squad playing only in the group stages while others made it to the knockout rounds.

There was also, for the first time, extra payments as World Cup qualifiers were also included as part of the Club Benefits Programme. That meant some of Celtic’s players who were not involved at the tournament proper still earned their club a fee from the governing body.

So, in total, Celtic are reported to have taken home around £1.2million for their contribution to the competition in the US, Mexico and Canada.

Both Auston Trusty and Alistair Johnston qualified with their nations for the last-16 round before they were eliminated and that helped land Celts £164,000 and £156,000 respectively.

The last-32 was where Benjamin Nygren and Daizen Maeda were knocked out, resulting in around £142k and £138k heading straight into the coffers at Parkhead.

The figures presented were via Scotland’s Coefficient on their social media channels.

In terms of the group stages, Scotland, Tunisia and South Korea all failed to qualify to the knockout stages which meant £119k for Kieran Tierney, Anthony Ralston, Yang and Sebastian Tounekti (£123k) was raked in by the club.

It will come as a significant boost to the Scottish giants even if the figure is not considered drastic where the transfer window is concerned. But even players who are not still in Glasgow brought in money as did some whose nations did not make the World Cup.

From qualifiers alone, the club earned around £112k for their players.

Kyogo Furuhashi and Reo Hatate were involved for Japan, Liam Scales and Johnny Kenny for Ireland, Viljami Sinisalo for Finland and Kasper Schmeichel turned out for Denmark before he was forced to retire.

There were also spots in the qualifiers for Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Luis Palma as well as those who did make money by playing at the World Cup proper.

What will be interesting is where the club will distribute the cash brought in by their players and whether or not Martin O’Neill will see any of it from Chris McKay to bolster his squad.