Crumlin United are set for a €152,000 windfall as a result of yesterday's FIFA ruling on 'solidarity payments', in a settlement which could enable other Irish schoolboy clubs to claim six-figure sums.
Details of the amount, announced at a FAI press conference this afternoon, represents five per cent of the fee paid to Tottenham by Leeds United for Dubliner Robbie Keane.
In 2001 FIFA introduced a regulation governing solidarity payments, rules which cover the transfer of an Irish player who was trained by a schoolboy club after 2001.
The introduction of the regulation which paved the way for FAI Career Development officer Eoin Hand to bring the case of the Keane's transfer before FIFA, who yesterday ruled in favour of the Dublin club.
Crumlin United trained Keane from 12 to 16 years of age.
The ruling also means that Lourdes Celtic, Leicester Celtic and St Kevin's Boys may now be eligible to a slice of Damien Duff's stg£17m transfer fee, earned when he moved from Blackburn to Chelsea earlier this year.