Although China did not qualify for the World Cup, Chinese Super League (CSL) side Zhejiang FC have been dubbed by local media as the league\u2019s \u201cbiggest winner\u201d as they stand to receive more than two million yuan (US$294,000) in tournament subsidies.<\/p>\n
This is because of the Fifa Club Benefits Programme, which compensates clubs whose players are away on national team duty for several weeks. For the World Cup, Fifa announced last month that it had put aside a budget of about US$355 million.<\/p>\n
The CSL\u2019s sole representative at the tournament was South Korean international Park Jin-seop, and when his World Cup campaign came to an end \u2013 following the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s 3-1 victory over Uzbekistan on the final group stage match day on Saturday, eliminating the Koreans \u2013 his club, Zhejiang FC, secured a substantial payout.<\/p>\n
The scheme follows a daily-rated model, providing US$11,000 per day per player to their respective clubs, meaning teams with more players who stay longer receive higher payouts.<\/p>\n
Park, who was playing in his first World Cup finals, came on as a substitute in South Korea\u2019s first match, a 2-1 win over the Czech Republic, and also in their third match, a 1-0 loss to South Africa.<\/p>\n
Calculated from May 31, when Park reported for national team duty, until June 28, when South Korea\u2019s campaign ended, a total of 29 days had elapsed. Under this formula, Zhejiang will receive around US$319,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although China did not qualify for the World Cup, Chinese Super League (CSL) side Zhejiang FC have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17633,134,38231,38227,14729,13356,38228,171,33946,38230,1362,1586,14426,33,38229,848,5968,38232],"class_list":["post-69813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-brazil","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-england","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-club-benefits-programme","tag-korean","tag-manchester-city","tag-park-jin-seop","tag-portugal","tag-qatar","tag-south-africa","tag-south-korea","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-uzbekistan","tag-world-cup","tag-zhejiang-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}