Come March 2022, and Intercontinental Playoffs NZF will be hoping for victory and an AWs appearance in Qatar, or worse case another TV rights bonanza aka Mexico.
I imagine there is a limited number of opponents that would net a similar large TV deal. USA/Mexico from CONCACAF, Argentina/Colombia (presuming Brazil would never be in that 5th CONMEBOL spot) and likes of Japan, South Korea & Saudi from AFC.
Anyone know when FIFA plan to do the Intercontinental Playoff draw?
It's still a pretty healthy balance sheet for the moment, but I imagine finances in following 4 cycle to USA 2026, would get tight for all the national teams (and NZ Football as a whole) without some sort of large finance win in 2022. I guess this is why NZF will be very happy for OFC to get a guaranteed spot at a bloated 48 team WC in 2026.
"The $764,000 loss for 2019 was announced on Thursday following the game's annual congress, held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
It was a $178,000 improvement on the budgeted loss of $942,000, which meant NZ Football did not make a planned $400,000 transfer from its international teams reserve fund."
"NZ Football has made a habit over the past decade of using transfers from the international teams fund to announce surpluses in years where its overall financial position worsened.
If you look at annual results before transfers, the $764,000 loss in 2019 was $1000 less than 2018’s $765,000 loss, as well as being smaller than those recorded in 2012 ($964,000) and 2016 ($1.7m), which still makes it the fourth-largest this century.
NZ Football’s reserves reached a high mark of $8.7m in 2013, after the organisation received a sizeable windfall from selling the TV rights to the All Whites’ World Cup qualifying playoff against Mexico that year."