Inter Miami’s tour of china: how much money will the club earn?

The MLS outfit is set to travel on an Chinese tour, a seemingly lucrative trip that will serve to increase the popularity of the club and league.

Inter Miami are set to fly to China for a postseason tour after the club failed to make the domestic playoffs in MLS. The side ultimately missed out on classifying for the chance to play more stateside football due to a late-season wobble that saw them go winless in 5, including a damaging defeat to Houston Dynamo in the US Open Cup final.

To make matters worse, the club had to compete in the home straight of the campaign without Lionel Messi, their star player and talisman, the figure who had signalled the huge winds of change at the club. But we all know that the football never stops, and the side have to pick themselves up quickly before packing their bags for Asia.

But why are the club doing the postseason trip? How much money will they earn? Let’s take a look...

“This will be a great opportunity to continue building on our 2023 campaign, in which we achieved our first-ever trophy,” Miami’s sporting director and chief soccer officer, Chris Henderson, said. “We will take this as an opportunity to begin our preparations for 2024, as we look to build on last season and find more success moving forward.”

The idea behind the Chinese tour is, for the MLS side, as well as giving the players semi-competitive minutes to keep them fresh, to also give the club a chance to expand globally in a huge market. The enthusiasm for football in China continues to grow rapidly: while the boom we saw of the domestic league is now limited, the rooted and loyal fanfare for the sport is still there, with the country actually inventing its own version of football, cuju, way before the modern game