South African Football Association (Safa) CEO Lydia Monyepao has dismissed reports Fifa will pay Banyana Banyana’s players who participated in the Women’s World Cup directly.

She said the world football governing body's payments will be given to associations to pay onto the players.

"Fifa doesn’t have a relationship with the players [but] they have a relationship with the member associations and it’s something they put clearly. So they’ll have to give us the money and we’ll distribute it," Monyepao said at Safa House on Tuesday.

The CEO said Safa will distribute the money to the players immediately when Fifa transfers it. She confirmed the association had already paid the players the bonuses from the combined R6m donated by the Motsepe Foundation and Ithuba National Lottery.

“Once the money is here, the money is gone [to the players]. Actually, last week we paid the players the money we got from the Motsepe Foundation. It was R230,000 [per player] before tax — you can check with them [the players],” Monyepao said.

Quizzed when exactly Fifa is likely to make the transactions, she said: “I’ve been out of the country for some time but I know there was correspondence on that — I will check and revert to you.”

Banyana reached the last 16 at this month's World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, meaning each player will pocket $60,000 (about R1,097,000) from the Fifa incentive scheme.