Four Ugandan Clubs include the Eastern Giants, Bul FC, SC Villa , Kccafc and reigning champions Vipers are set to Benefit in the FIFA Club reward Programme where their players who have featured in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers will be rewarded.
This means that for instance Vipers is going to be paid for having Abdul Karim Watambala, Allan Okello, Torach on the Cranes side, KCCA for having Gavin Kizito, Sserunjogi and SC Villa for Reagan Mpande and Jonah Kakande while Bul FC had Joel Mutakubwa.
For the first time, the programme will directly reward all clubs releasing players for the FIFA World Cup 26 qualifiers Unprecedented total of USD 355 million set aside for the benefit of club football, an increase of nearly 70% compared to previous edition. FIFA Club Benefits Programme is part of the renewed memorandum of understanding signed by FIFA and the European Club Association.
More clubs than ever are set to benefit from the FIFA World Cup, as FIFA gears up to implement an enhanced edition of the FIFA Club Benefits Programme (CBP) for the 2026 edition of its flagship men’s competition.
This new approach means that any club that releases a player for a FIFA World Cup 26 qualifier will now be directly compensated for said release, irrespective of whether the player plays at the final tournament, an additional step to increase solidarity aimed at providing a fairer and more inclusive redistribution across global club football.
“The enhanced edition of the FIFA Club Benefits Programme for the FIFA World Cup 2026 is going a step further by recognising financially the huge contribution that so many clubs and their players around the world make to the staging of both the qualifiers and the final tournament,” said FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
“A record USD 355 million will be distributed to clubs for the release of their players, and this reinforces our solid collaboration with the European Club Association and clubs worldwide as we all look forward to a groundbreaking and globally inclusive edition of the FIFA World Cup next year.”
The fourth edition of the CBP, which was implemented for the FIFA World Cup 2022, saw USD 209 million distributed among 440 clubs from 51 FIFA Member Associations across all six confederations.
