Do Football Players Get Paid By National Teams?

Yes. Footballers do get paid to represent their national teams. However national team pay structures are very different from club salaries. Big footballing nations from Europe pay their players specfic match fee plus share of the prize money as bonus for winning or achieving certain objectives in big tournaments like World Cup and Euros. 

How National Team Players Get Paid?

England has pay structure which is based on matche fee. If a player is selected in England squad for upcoming international he will get paid around £2,000 per match. If he starts the match it increased to £3,500 per-match according to BBC. However all England national team players donate their match fee earnings from national team to charity. Micah Richards talked about it in podcast with Gary Linekar. 

Germany and France also have similar payment structure to compensate national team players. French players get between €4,000 to €6,000 per-match fee. It increases to around €15,000 to €20,000 per match for wold cups or Euros. Kylian Mbappe publically announced that he will donate all is €20,000 per-match World Cup appearance fees to a charity. Other big nations with lucrative domestic football leagues have similar structures.

UMNT have one of the most transparent payment/salary structure when it comes to national team salaries. Player who regularly represent USMN (US National team) for around 10/12 matches in a year can earn around $150,000 to $200,000 annually just from match fee and win bonues. For big tournaments like world cup it increases to around $350,000 per player in match-fee and bonues

How Smaller Nations Pay Their National Team Players

However when we look at rest of the world for example in African or Asian football. Federations pay their players yearly retainer fee. Players are usually given central contracts for 1 or 2 years and they get paid in normal salary on monthly/yearly basis. 

For example Australia have Central contracts (FFA) + match fee structure where players can earn upto A$100,000–A$150,000 annual retainers. New Zealand also have Short-term contracts where national team players can earn upto NZ$1,000–NZ$2,000 per match. Similarly Ghana also have Central allowance + per match fee. 

Tournament Bonuses

Federations offer revenue share and bonuses for national team players who represent national teams at big tournaments like World Cup/Euro and Copa America.

Argentina FA paid $400,000 bonus per player for winning 2022 FIFA World Cup. While other big nations also offer winning bonues as well as reaching certain objectives in the tournament.

Germany's football association announced before the 2022 world cup that each player will get bonuses of €65,000 for reaching the quarter-finals. €110,000 for reaching semi-finals. If German qualify for world cup final players will get €175,000 for runners-up slot and €300,000 for winning the world cup.

England, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland all have similar bonus system which is basically share of the prize money federation recieves from FIFA. 

Smaller nations usually have revenue share system with their national team players where around 30% to 50% revenue earned from big tournaments or FIFA is distributed between national team players who are under central contracts. Number Africa teams are doing this.