Oyogist has learned that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) will pay the team that wins the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations a $5 million prize money.
CAF Announced its decision to raise the prize money from $4.5million.
The 11% raise was approved during the meeting of CAF executives in Douala, Cameroon on Friday.
The runners-up will be paid $2.75 million, a 10% increase from $2.5 million.
The prize for the semi-finalists and the quarter-finalists were also increased, with the total sum of the increase on all prize monies being $1.85 million.
Each of the 24 countries that qualified for the competition, will receive at least €534,000 for participation.
Here’s The New AFCON prize money structure;
Winners: $5million
Runners-up: $2.75million
Semi-Finalists: $2.2million
Quarter-Finalists: $1.175million
