FIFA's Efforts To Achieve The Biennial World Cup Discourse Turns Out For Rp63 Trillion Money

Illustration, Lusail Stadium, 2022 World Cup final venue (Twitter @FIFAcom)

JAKARTA - A FIFA delegation said that world football's governing body could earn an additional US$4.4 billion (around Rp.

Quoted from Antara, Tuesday, this was conveyed at a global high-level conference with the leaders of member football federations, which was convened by FIFA on Monday specifically to discuss proposals for the biennial World Cup.

The financial data is part of the results of a feasibility study presented by FIFA on Monday, but the event only serves as a consultative process with no voting schedule.

This optimistic report clearly contradicts a number of analyzes that have been used as arguments by parties who are against the discourse.

European clubs, top league operators and UEFA are among them, even the president of the Blue Continent football body, Aleksander Ceferin, had threatened to boycott if there was a new additional tournament.

Last month, a report compiled by the World League Forum said FIFA's discourse, which also involved changing the Club World Cup format, could cost domestic leagues and UEFA an estimated 8 billion euros in revenue per season from broadcasting rights. , match revenue and other commercial deals.

Then UEFA, last Friday (17/12), issued a report they requested from consulting firm Oliver & Ohlbaum warning that changes to the international match calendar would result in a decline in revenue for the organization in the range of 2.5 to 3 billion euros (approximately Rp. 40 billion). -48 trillion) in a period of four years.

Meanwhile, at the FIFA meeting their delegation presented a report from the Italian company, Open Economocis, which stated that the income of domestic leagues and UEFA would not be harmed due to the schedule of matches for the national team or international club competitions.

The report also states that in recent years domestic league revenues have continued to increase as major international tournaments take place.

Professor Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo, from Open Economics, told FIFA conference attendees that the biennial World Cup discourse "promises significant and positive net macroeconomic benefits, distributed over time".

FIFA officials said the additional revenue would go into the "Members Solidarity Fund" with each member federation getting $16 million (approximately Rp.

According to FIFA, the funds will reduce the revenue gap between developing and less developed football markets.

If a vote on the discourse of the biennial World Cup takes place, it will clearly involve the 211 FIFA member federations.

In addition to UEFA, the Latin American football confederation CONMEBOL has also expressed its rejection of the discourse.

Meanwhile, the president of the Confederation of Central and North American Football (CONCACAF) Victor Montagliani said there was an additional tournament compromise solution in the form of an extension of the old format of the Confederations Cup rather than the full World Cup which required a separate qualifying event.