With three Celtic stars likely to be selected for the 2022 World Cup, the club is set to bag a tidy windfall from the FIFA World Cup Benefit Programme.

Clubs who release their players for the tournament will profit from the fund which was designed to recognise the contribution of club sides to the international event.

It will distribute the cash to sides based on how many days their players are participating in the tournament including two weeks prior to the kick-off.

Barring any exits during the summer window with interest in Josip Juranovic escalating with Atletico Madrid now supposedly interested in the Croatian fullback, there is likely three first team regulars who are likely to be named in their national sides squads for the tournament.

Kyogo Furuhashi, Josip Juranovic and Daizen Maeda are regularly selected for their respective countries with the players likely to be called up.

However, with the expansion to 26-man squads national sides will have the benefit of taking three extra players. Within the current crop of players at the Hoops there is players such as Cameron Carter-Vickers and Reo Hatate who have both been previously capped for their countries that could potentially be given the shout.

Since Matt O’Riley’s first call-up to the Denmark U21’s in March, the former MK Dons man has been very impressive but it is an outside chance that he would be selected for the World Cup.

Squads for the World Cup are set to be announced in late October which will give the Celtic stars at least four games in the Champions League against quality opposition to give themselves a chance at being selected.

With it being assumed that Juranvoic, Maeda and Kyogo head off to Qatar, all players would be at the tournament for a minimum of 25 days with each player pulling in $8,350 per day which would culminate in a total of $626,250.

However, there is a stipulation that the total to be distributed is to go to clubs with which the player was registered for the previous two years meaning that the money would be split with the players previous sides meaning that Celtic could receive a pot of around $300,000 with a potential bonus off Tom Rogic whose money will have to be shared with the Hoops if the player is selected.

The club benefited from this scheme at the last World Cup in 2018 making a tidy sum of €837,100 [Total Sportal] with the quartet of Dedryck Boyata, Tom Rogic, Cristian Gamboa and Mikael Lustig being involved.

 

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