Mohamed Bin Hammam will offer national associations significant financial incentives to support his challenge to Sepp Blatter for the Fifa presidency.

The Qatari, 61, confirmed his candidacy on Friday and then revealed he will double the financial support handed out to each of Fifa's 208 member associations to US$500,000.

He announced plans to create 17 more executive committee positions on a 41-strong "Fifa board" - currently each member receives US$100,000  a year plus handsome expenses.

Bin Hammam, once a loyal Blatter ally, said: "I believe my chances are 50-50. Sepp Blatter is an experienced person, he has made significant contribution to football worldwide but I believe there is a time limit for everything. There is now a time for a new face and a new heir."

Offering associations financial inducements is nothing new in Fifa elections - Blatter himself has used previous campaigns to announce extra funds via the GOAL development projects.

The changes to the executive committee are more revolutionary and however impractical a 41-man board may sound, there are plenty of people on the fringes of football power who would relish one of the extra 17 seats.

Bin Hammam knows that money talks in football - it was he who was in charge of the extravagantly-funded Qatar bid for the 2022 World Cup that triumphed spectacularly in December.

The Football Association are likely to back Bin Hammam - senior figures inside the organisation, especially from the Premier League, want a change at the top of world football after being disgusted at England's treatment in the campaign for the 2018 World Cup.