FIFA has revealed the World Cup windfall payments to UEFA clubs with seven Scottish sides earning financial boosts.
Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Dundee United, Hibs, St Johnstone and St Mirren all received fees for their players being involved in the tournament.
Clubs were paid around £8,000 per day a player was involved in the tournament, regardless of how many minutes they played.
The fee is divided and distributed to the players' current club and any other side with which the player was registered in the two years leading to the finals.
A total of $2,161,798, or £1,656,856, was paid out to Scottish clubs representing 1.3 percent of the entire fees paid to UEFA clubs by FIFA.
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Celtic - represented by Daizen Maeda, Aaron Mooy, Josip Juranovic and Cameron Carter-Vickers - pocketed the most cash through the FIFA scheme with $664,326 received.
The figure also includes payments for Olivier Ntcham and Jeremie Frimpong who featured at the tournament within the two-year registration period.
Rangers were next on the list receiving $414,291 for player involvement as Barisic reached the final four with Croatia - alongside Juranovic.
Hearts were next in Scotland's earnings list taking $325,775 for Nathaniel Atkinson, Cammy Devlin and Kyle Rowles who all featured for Australia.
Dundee United had Dylan Levitt and Aziz Behich, for Wales and Australia respectively, at the tournament earning them $242,734.
Injured Martin Boyle attended the tournament for Australia too despite his long-term injury lay-off as Hibs pocketed $229,959.
St Johnstone received a $208,058 fee for David Wotherspoon's involvement with Canada while St Mirren banked $76,653 as Keanu Baccus played for Australia.
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