Manchester City have already pocketed around £3.6m from FIFA during the World Cup, and could be entitled to another £600,000 depending on how their remaining players fare in Qatar.
FIFA's club benefits programme entitles clubs to claim $10,000 per day per player involved at the World Cup, with City sending 16 players to represent their countries. With six days of training before the tournament, and a 13-day group stage, City could expect £136,000 per day, which was around £2,750,000 guaranteed regardless of how each country managed.
As it happened, only two players failed to reach the knockout stages, as Kevin De Bruyne's Belgium and Ilkay Gundogan's Germany were surprisingly knocked-out at the group stage. That left 14 players in the knockout stages, with 11 progressing to the quarter-finals.
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Spain's shock exit to Morocco means Rodri and Aymeric Laporte will return to City, as will Manuel Akanji after Switzerland were beaten by Portugal. The extra four days spent by those three players in Qatar means City pocketed an extra £98,500 from the FIFA fund.
And with the quarter-finals offering a clearer picture of which teams could go all the way, City know at least one of their players is guaranteed a semi-final spot as the Netherlands face Argentina in the last eight. Nathan Ake and Julian Alvarez will hope that they are the one facing either Brazil or Croatia in the semi-finals.
Losing semi-finalists then compete for the third-place play-off, so if Ederson's Brazil beat Croatia, then City will be sure that at least one of their players will be involved in the final on December 18, and another will be trying for third place a day before. Given the Netherlands and Argentina play in the quarter-finals, City know they are entitled to a further £65,700 for one player up until the third-place game, and if Brazil beat Croatia they can also budget for another £73,500 as they know another player will be involved until the final weekend of the tournament.
On the other side of the draw to Brazil, Argentina and Netherlands, Portugal can book a semi-final spot (and involvement until at least the third-place play-off) if they can beat Spain's conquerers Morocco. City can claim £197,000 for their three Portuguese stars making it this far already, and a semi-final spot would land the Blues an extra £172,500 as Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias and Joao Cancelo would be needed for another week.
England have a far tougher quarter-final with France, although by the time that game kicks off, they will have already stayed in Qatar for an extra eight days past the group stage. With five City representatives in the squad, that bumps the club's compensation from FIFA up by £328,500. Progression to the semi-finals would add at least another week to that total, with an extra £287,500 then on offer up until the third-place fixture.
In terms of final figures, City know that up until the quarter-final stage - and with the knowledge that Ake or Alvarez will make the semi-finals - they will be able to claim at least £3,650,000 from the FIFA program so far, even if Brazil, Portugal and England lose their quarter-finals. Depending on how their 11 players fare from the quarter-finals onwards, however, that figure could jump above £4m.
If Brazil, Portugal and England reach the semi-finals, City's total amount from FIFA could reach around £4,200,000, as ten players would be in Qatar until the last weekend. If just Brazil and Portugal make the last four, the figure would be around £3,900,000.
And should England win a possible semi-final with Portugal, to play a final against one of Brazil, Argentina or Netherlands, City would be entitled to around £4,250,000 in total from the World Cup, as six players would have made the final in that scenario, and a further four would be involved until the penultimate day of the tournament.
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