Super Eagles and other teams that qualified for the FIFA 2018 World Cup are to get $1.5m grants from FIFA to aid their preparations for the tournament bill to start June 14-July 15 in Russia.
Each team is also guaranteed $8m for playing in the group stages of the World Cup.
The winning team will get a record $38m in prize money, after world football governing body Fifa boosted its financial offering to record levels. Runners-up in the final can console themselves with a $25m prize.
Progressing through to the first knock-out stage boosts the prize to $9m while a quarter-final finish is worth $14m.In the much-derided third place play-off, $42m is shared between the two sides with the victor taking home $22m.
A total prize money pool of $400m represents a 12 per cent increase on the $358m paid out to teams at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, where victors Germany received $35m.
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