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COPA AMÉRICA · PRIZE MONEY · 2024

Copa América prize money

CONMEBOL pays £54.1m to the 16 teams at the 2024 Copa América, and £1,503,759 of it goes to every one of them before a ball is kicked. The rest is settled by how far a team gets: £12,030,075 for winning it, nothing more for going out in the group stage.

A team is paid once, for where it finished. The band is the whole of it rather than a step on the way to it, so a team beaten in the quarter-finals collects £1,503,759 and not that plus every band below it.

THE POT £54.1m
RUNNERS-UP £6,766,917
WINNING IT £13,533,834
EVERY TEAM £1,503,759

What each finishing place pays

The six bands the 16 teams are divided into

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The six Copa América prize money bands, with the teams in each, what one of them is paid and what the band pays out in total.
FINISHING PLACE TEAMS EACH THE BAND
Winning it 1 £12,030,075£12.0m £12,030,075£12.0m
Runners-up 1 £5,263,158£5.3m £5,263,158£5.3m
Third 1 £3,759,398£3.8m £3,759,398£3.8m
Fourth 1 £3,007,519£3.0m £3,007,519£3.0m
5th to 8th 4 £1,503,759£1.5m £6,015,036£6.0m
9th to 16th 8 £0 £0
Played for on the pitch 16 - £30,075,186£30.1m

What each band pays out between its teams

Winning it £12.0m
5th to 8th £6.0m
Runners-up £5.3m
Third £3.8m
Fourth £3.0m

How far each band got

Winning it £12.0m the champions, after six matches
Runners-up £5.3m beaten in the final
Third £3.8m won the third-place play-off
Fourth £3.0m lost the third-place play-off
5th to 8th £1.5m beaten in the quarter-finals
9th to 16th £0 out in the group stage, and paid for taking part and nothing more

The bottom band pays nothing. The 8 teams going out in the group stage collect the £1,503,759 for taking part and no more, whether they lost all three group matches or missed out on goal difference.

Who collected it

Where all 16 teams finished, and what each was paid

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Every team at the 2024 Copa América, the band its finish falls in and what it was paid.
TEAM BAND PAID
Argentina Winning it £13,533,834£13.5m
Colombia Runners-up £6,766,917£6.8m
Uruguay Third £5,263,157£5.3m
Canada Fourth £4,511,278£4.5m
Brazil 5th to 8th £3,007,518£3.0m
Ecuador 5th to 8th £3,007,518£3.0m
Panama 5th to 8th £3,007,518£3.0m
Venezuela 5th to 8th £3,007,518£3.0m
Bolivia 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m
Chile 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m
Costa Rica 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m
Jamaica 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m
Mexico 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m
Paraguay 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m
Peru 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m
United States 9th to 16th £1,503,759£1.5m

The band is the whole of it. Argentina are paid £13,533,834 for winning it, the payment for taking part included, rather than that on top of every band below, which is what makes the 16 figures in this table add up to the £54,135,330 paid out.

The whole distribution

What is played for, and what is paid for turning up

16 teams
The two parts of Copa América prize money, with the share and the amount each takes.
PART OF THE POT SHARE THE 2024 POT
Played for on the pitch 55.6% £30,075,186£30.1m
Paid for taking part 44.4% £24,060,144£24.1m
The whole pot 100% £54,135,330£54.1m

The most and the least a team leaves with

Winning it £13.5m £1,503,759 for taking part and £12,030,075 for the trophy, after six matches
Going out in the group stage £1.5m £1,503,759 for taking part and nothing for the bottom band, and nobody at the tournament is paid less
Runners-up £6.8m £6.8m less than the champions, which is the price of losing the final

Frequently asked questions

How much do the Copa América winners get?

£13,533,834. That is £12,030,075 for winning it and £1,503,759 paid to every team for taking part, and it is the whole of what the champions are paid: there is no separate payment for each round on the way to it.

Who won the 2024 Copa América, and what were they paid?

Argentina, who were paid £13,533,834 with the payment for taking part included. Colombia were beaten in the final and paid £6,766,917 in all.

What is the Copa América prize money in total?

£54,135,330 across the 16 teams. £30,075,186 of that is played for on the pitch and split into six bands by finishing place, and £24,060,144 is the flat £1,503,759 paid to every team before a ball is kicked.

How much does a team get for reaching the Copa América?

£1,503,759, and no team at the tournament collects less. It is the flat payment for taking part, and it is the whole of what the 8 teams going out in the group stage collect.

Does Copa América prize money add up round by round?

No. A team is paid once, for where it finished, and the band is the whole of it. A team beaten in the quarter-finals collects £1,503,759 and not that plus every band under it. It is the opposite of the Champions League, where a club is paid again for each round it reaches.

How much do the losing Copa América finalists get?

£6,766,917, which is £5,263,158 for the band and £1,503,759 for taking part. Third place is worth £3,759,398 and fourth £3,007,519, so the third-place play-off is worth £751,879 to the teams that lose the semi-finals.

Where to next

The rest of the money in the game

Where a competition pays again at every round rather than once at the end, see Champions League prize money, Club World Cup prize money, Europa League prize money and Conference League prize money. The domestic cups work the same way: DFB-Pokal prize money, FA Cup prize money, Carabao Cup prize money, FA Trophy prize money and FA Vase prize money. For what a league pays its clubs across a season, see Premier League prize money, La Liga prize money and La Liga 2 prize money, and for a league that publishes a percentage against every finishing position, Bundesliga prize money. Where a league publishes the shares and not the payments, see Serie A prize money. For what a relegated club is paid after it leaves, see Championship parachute payments. For another competition that pays by finishing place, see World Cup prize money, Women's World Cup prize money, Africa Cup of Nations prize money, CAF Champions League prize money and CAF Confederation Cup prize money.