FIFA details Infantino's $6M pay deal with 33% increase in bonus after 2025 Club World Cup
GENEVA (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino got a 33% increase in his annual bonus last year as part of a $6 million pay package detailed Thursday by soccer’s world body. Infantino’s basic annual salary was unchanged at 2. 6 million Swiss francs ($3.
3 million) and his bonus rose by 550,000 Swiss francs ($695,000) to 2. 2 million Swiss francs ($2. 78 million) in 2025, when FIFA organized its first monthlong men’s Club World Cup in the United States.
In each of the prior two years, Infantino’s annual bonus had been 1. 65 Swiss francs ($2 million). It was unclear if the FIFA leader is entitled to further payments including for keeping homes in his native Switzerland and Florida, where FIFA has a base in Coral Gables organizing the 2026 World Cup across North America.
The Club World Cup heavily backed by Saudi Arabian money added about $2 billion to FIFA’s revenue, which is set to be at least $13 billion for the four-year period through this year’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. FIFA on Thursday published annual accounts with a budget target for 2027-30 of $14 billion in estimated revenue. That four-year commercial cycle includes the second edition of the men's Club World Cup — in a host nation yet to be decided — and a men’s and women’s World Cup.
The Women’s World Cup will be in Brazil in 2027 and the men’s 2030 World Cup will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, plus single games in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. FIFA said it aims to allocate $2. 7 billion of its $14 billion revenue in development money to its 211 member federations, plus continental and regional soccer bodies.