Instead, the Zurich-based organisation believes national associations could pay clubs from the cash they receive from participating in FIFA tournaments.
But there’s no indication that FIFA will issue instructions or guidelines on a matter which is of major concern to leading clubs.
Speaking at the Soccerex Conference in Dubai, Markus Siegler, FIFA’s director of communications, told delegates that 75 per cent of the profits from major tournaments such as the World Cup are ploughed back into the national associations.
"It is up to them what they do with it, but in some countries it goes back to the clubs.
"It is not up to FIFA to say what the associations should do with it. But in most countries professionals make up just 0.01 per cent of the players - there are many more players who are amateurs, women, boys and girls at grassroots level."
FIFA, and its continental confederations such as UEFA in Europe, the AFC in Africa and CONMEBOL in South America, have long come under pressure from the likes of the G14 group of Europe's 18 richest and most powerful clubs in particular, to compensate them for releasing players for World Cup finals and European championships.
G14 maintain that FIFA and in Europe, UEFA, should pay the players' salaries for the duration of the events and last year threatened to take legal action if the ruling bodies refused to negotiate.
That threat has so far not materialised, while FIFA and its regional allies have fiercely resisted any attempts to compensate the clubs. Siegler's comments indicate they have no intention of changing their policy.
Chelsea director Paul Smith, Freddie Shepherd of Newcastle United and Inter Milan's managing director Jeff Slack all claimed it was wrong that they should have to pay players when they were on international duty, especially if they get injured.
"We loan them out and they come back injured," said Smith. "That is not logical by any stretch of the imagination."
Shepherd added: "In what other business would you be expected to loan out your employees and not get a penny back? It doesn't make sense."
