FIFA increased the financial distributions at this year's World Cup to a record $1.25 billion, making it the largest prize pool in the competition's history.About $938 million will be paid out as performance-based prize money, nearly 50 per cent more than the $630 million offered at Qatar in 2022 According to the Reuters news agency, the football governing body was projected to surpass $15.8 billion in revenue in the four-year cycle from 2023 to 2026.In April, FIFA increased the financial distributions by 15 per cent due to the World Cup's commercial success."FIFA is proud to be in its most solid financial position ever, enabling us to help all our member associations in an unprecedented way," FIFA president Gianni Infantino said at the time."This is one more example of how FIFA's resources are reinvested back into the game."FIFA pays the money to the national football federations of each country, which then determine how much players, coaches and support staff receive