It's not just club football that is consumed by greed and the millionaires lifestyle these days but International football aswell.This summer's Euro 2008 tournament sees the biggest prize fund ever on offer with a whopping £144m (184m euros) being offered to the sixteen competing teams. This prize fund sees an increase of £43m (55m euros) from what was on offer for the Euro 2004 competitors.
The breakdown of the prize money is as follows, and you can now see why the FA were so gutted at Stevie-boy's failure to get England to the tournament...
Participation fee= £5.87m (7.5m euros)
Group stages (per match)
Win= £782,000 (1m euros)
Draw= £391,000 ( 500,000 euros)
Quarter Finals
Win= £1.56m (2m euros)
Semi Finals
Win= £2.34m (3m euros)
Runner Up
Win= £3.51m (4.5m euros)
Winner
Win= £5.87m (7.5m euros)
Not bad eh? If the eventual winner wins all their Group stage matches they will receive a total prize fund of just over £18m (23m euros). Not bad for a month's work in anyone's books...
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