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Clubs Will Get Cash Compensation For Euro 2008


Michel PlatiniUEFA have announced that clubs who will have players on international duty at Euro 2008 will be compensated financially.

The packaged outlined earlier in the week will see clubs paid €4,000 for each day a player is involved in the latter stages of the tournament. The same rule will also apply to the World Cup in 2010 and beyond.

The cash is to be shared between any club a player has been with in the two years prior to the tournament. E.g. in the case of Fernando Torres, compensation would be due to both Liverpool and Atletico Madrid, whereby come the World Cup compensation would be due strictly to Liverpool.

The package was revealed at the launch of the European Club Association (which replaces the fabled G14) and sees UEFA putting aside an estimated €43.5m for Euro 2008 and a further €55m for Euro 2012 while FIFA have set aside €76m to cover the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

In the same announcement it was also revealed that the African Cup Of Nations will move closer to a summer date when the tournament (on at the moment) comes around in 2016.

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