The World Fitness Project has announced how much athletes will receive if they earn a Pro Card for the 2026 season. The top 20 men and women, based on 2025 season points, will receive a 2026 Pro Card. The top contract is $80,000 for next year and a total of $1.268 million will be paid out in guaranteed contracts.
It is the first time that the contracted amounts have been made public. The initial Pro Card contracts were shrouded in secrecy. There were rumors that a majority of athletes received $30,000 for their 2025 contract, but it was never confirmed.
And up until today, it appeared that the contract amounts would never be public. Will Moord, WFP Director of Sport, said in a recent interview on Coffee Pods and Wods that he didn’t think those would ever be shared.
However, this morning, that changed.
The 2026 contracts are based on the final points accumulated during the 2025 WFP season:
1st) $80,000
2nd) $70,000
3rd) $60,000
4th) $55,000
5th) $50,000
6th) $45,000
7th) $40,000
8th) $35,000
9th) $30,000
10th) $25,000
11th) $20,000
12th) $20,000
13th) $20,000
14th) $15,000
15th) $15,000
16th) $12,000
17th) $12,000
18th) $10,000
19th) $10,000
20th) $10,000
“We are excited about the 2026 season structure, having built and molded it from the current season,” said Jackson Terry, WFP Director of Operations. “We feel like the updates and Pro Card requirements for 2026 helps define the season more clearly for the athletes who compete in it. We are building a field of athletes that will be familiar with the WFP season and with the hopes that these athletes won’t be financially burdened for competing in the sport they love.”
The guaranteed contracts are the minimum that athletes can earn if they participate in all of the WFP competitions next season. Athletes can earn more if their prize money from the competitions exceeds their contracted amounts.
That is, if an athlete has a $25,000 guaranteed contract, but the total prize money earned from competing is $55,000, that athlete will receive $30,000 on top of their $25,000 contract.
“This structure is what we were hoping for when we started the WFP,” said Will Moorad, WFP Director of Sport. “This is what professionalizing the sport of competitive, functional fitness looks like. These are real contracts, with real salaries and pay structures based on performance. These are the type of things that I wish I had when I was competing. We got here because of the open dialog with athletes about what they wanted and that is exciting for me because we are making it happen. This is just the start. We will continue to evolve the contracts, the pay structure, the Pro Card and the opportunities it presents for the future.”
All of this news comes on the heels of multiple athletes withdrawing from the 2025 WFP Finals next month. Jayson Hopper, Maddie Sturt and Paige Semenza have all announced their will not travel to Copenhagen for the Finals. As a result, they will not finish in the top 20 of points and will not retain their Pro Card for next year.
Could today’s announcement be in response to the departures? We can only speculate.
New for 2026
While we don’t know the exact details of next season, it does appear that there will be three Tour Stops and the WFP Finals in 2026. Tour Stop 1 will be in Mallorca and has tentatively been scheduled for March 27-29, the same weekend as the CrossFit Quarterfinals.
Roger Nilsson did share on a recent podcast that WFP has been in talks with Dave Castro and CrossFit about a potential collaboration. However, he did not go into specifics.
Another change for the 2026 WFP season is that Pro Card athletes will not be guaranteed into the Finals next year. This year all Pro Card athletes were guaranteed a spot in the Finals regardless of whether they finished in the top 30 in points.
In 2026, Pro athletes could miss Finals if they don’t participate in enough Tour Stops or fail to earn enough points.
The 2025 WFP Finals will be December 18-21 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
