Watford received a total of $311,174 from FIFA for Ismaila Sarr’s participation in the 2022 World Cup Finals with Senegal.

FIFA have released their Club Benefits Programme Report covering the finals in Qatar last winter, which showed the Hornets received the eighth largest sum in the Championship.

Cardiff received the most in the second tier ($645,163) followed by QPR ($624,174) and Swansea ($580,373).

In total, 17 Championship clubs received paymetns from FIFA, while Watford’s non-league neighbours Boreham Wood were paid $31,026.

The total amount made available by FIFA ($209m) was divided by the total number of days that all of the participating players spent at the World Cup.

At Qatar 2022, that came to approximately 19,080 days, and that meant an amount of $10,950 per player per day was paid ($209m divided by 19,080).

That $10,950 was then multiplied by the number of days that each player spent at the final competition of Qatar 2022, starting from their release for the tournament and ending on the day following the last match of the player’s representative team.

It’s important to note it’s not relevant whether a player actually played in any given match; in other words, all of the players from the same nation end up with the same per player per day amount.

However, what makes the maths slightly more complicated is the FIFA Benefits Programme also rewards the clubs where the player played over the previous two years (ie during the qualification phase).

So, to give a working example, Japan’s Hiroki Sakai was in the Japan squad that was at the World Cup Finals for 23 days, meaning he and all the other squad members amassed a rounded amount of $250,000 each (23 days x $10,950).

That $250,000 was then divided between Urawa Red Dragons (his club during the finals and also the 2021/22 season) who received $166,666, while Marseille (where he played during the 2020/21 season) were paid the remaining $83,333.

Of the $209m available, clubs in UEFA received 76% of the money ($158,900,000) with Manchester City ($4.6m) the highest paid club, followed by Barcelona ($4.5m) and Bayern Munich ($4.3m).

English FA clubs received the most ($37.7m), with the Spanish FA ($24.2m) and German FA ($21m) the nest highest.

Interestingly, Al Sadd from the host nation Qatar received $2.8m, largely because they had 12 players in the squad.

The only British clubs to earn more than Al Sadd were City, Chelsea ($3.2m), Manchester United ($3.2m) and Tottenham ($2.83m).

The other highest sums received across the rest of Europe were by Paris St Germain ($3.8m), Real Madrid ($3.8m), Ajax ($3.5m) and Juventus ($3m).