FIFA won’t increase a $70 million payment to clubs who are demanding a bigger share of 2014 World Cup revenues, secretary general Jerome Valcke said.

Valcke responded to the 200-member European Club Association which is seeking to re-negotiate a previously agreed deal and claim more of FIFA’s near-$4 billion World Cup income.

“Now the ECA say they want more money for 2014 and we say ‘no, we have a current agreement’” for $70 million, Valcke said on the sidelines of a meeting of FIFA’s rules-making panel.

The ECA wants FIFA to follow European football body UEFA, which has offered clubs a bigger slice of European Championship profits.

Clubs worldwide had been promised €55 million for letting players go to Euro 2012.

The ECA announced this week that UEFA had “substantially increased” that amount as part of a new accord which guarantees mutual cooperation through May 2018 - days before the World Cup in Russia kicks off.

FIFA and UEFA distribute money per a daily rate for as long as players are involved in their tournaments.

As organisers of marquee international tournaments, they acknowledged the clubs’ importance to world football during talks to recognise the ECA in 2008.

“It’s true that the clubs are releasing the players for the World Cup but we have agreed to give them $70 million for 2014. We gave $40 million for 2010,” Valcke said.

“It seems that is not enough. On top of that, we pay $30 million a year for insurance (for players on international duty). We can discuss for 2018 and 2022, but for 2014 we have an agreement.”

World Cup payments to clubs have become a central problem in attempts to extend a co-operation deal between FIFA and European clubs, which expires after the next World Cup in Brazil.

Rising tension has caused ECA chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge to refuse to attend the FIFA-led talks aimed at agreeing on a calendar from 2015 of international fixture dates, when clubs are obliged to release their players for national team duty.