{"id":9263,"date":"2026-05-16T19:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2026-05-16T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:05:13","slug":"fa-cup-final-prize-money-exact-amount-chelsea-and-man-city-will-get-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup final prize money: Exact amount Chelsea and Man City will get | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<li>\n<p><strong>Winner\u2019s Payout:<\/strong> The club that wins the FA Cup final will receive a direct payout of \u00a32,120,000. This is the largest single-game prize money reward in the entire tournament.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Runner-Up Payout:<\/strong> The losing finalist, either Chelsea or Manchester City, will receive \u00a31,060,000. This follows the competition&#8217;s standard distribution rate, which awards the runner-up exactly 50 percent of the winner&#8217;s final match earnings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Total Cumulative Earnings:<\/strong> By adding up the cash rewards from every previous round of the tournament, the ultimate cup winners will accumulate a total of \u00a33,912,500 in prize money for their entire campaign.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Additional Financial Incentives:<\/strong> Beyond direct prize money, winning the final secures a place in the 2026 FA Community Shield. This traditional season opener provides clubs with another highly lucrative, high-profile matchday.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>European Qualification Value:<\/strong> The winners secure an automatic spot in the 2026\/27 UEFA Europa League league phase. This carries significant secondary financial value through European broadcasting rights, ticket sales, and performance bonuses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner\u2019s Payout: The club that wins the FA Cup final will receive a direct payout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}