City to receive big World Cup payout

The money which FIFA is paying out, a total of £163m, relates to the fees over whose players were involved in squads, dependent on how long their national teams stayed in the tournament and including the two-week spell before it got underway.

Tottenham (£3.42m), Chelsea (£3m) and Manchester United (£2.85m) are also in the top-10 recipients along with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Monaco.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino told 'Sky Sports': "The FIFA World Cup is the pinnacle of football, generating passion and emotion from every player and every fan in every corner of the world.

"It is FIFA's responsibility to redistribute the revenues of this unique competition among the entire football community, and clubs, obviously, deserve to share in this success as they were key contributors.

"I'm very pleased to see that teams from so many different regions will benefit from this programme, which will help to develop football even further around the globe."