champions league prize money increase

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The race for places in the Champions League among the Premier League's top clubs has just become more urgent after UEFA announced significant increases in prize money for their top competition from next season.

Cash for appearing in the group stages onwards is leaping by up to 50 per cent, and for English clubs there will also be steep hikes in 'market pool' money from UEFA's TV incomes.

The upshot is that if an English club were to win next season's Champions League, they would earn around €100m (or £74m at today's exchange rates) from central UEFA funds alone. Ticket income plus any commercial bonuses income would be on top.

To put that in context, England's highest-earning club in last season's Champions League was Manchester United, who earned €44.8m (£33m) from UEFA for reaching the quarter-finals.

As things stand, the four Champions League slots for next season are filled by Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United - with that quartet the favourites to reach Europe's top club competition.

But Liverpool in fifth, Southampton in sixth and Tottenham in seventh will still hold out hopes they can finish strongly and perhaps squeak into the top four. Never has that fourth place been so lucrative.

Under current prize money arrangements, clubs reaching the group stage receive €8.6m (£6.4m) each plus €1m (£750,000) per group win and €0.5m (£370,000) per draw. The basic fee will rise 40 per cent to €12m (£8.9m) and each win will jump 50 per cent to €1.5m (£1.1m).

Prize money for reaching the last 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals will leap up to 57 per cent, respectively to £4m, £4.44m and £5.2m.

The prize for being tournament runner-up will jump from €6.5m (£4.8m) to €10.5m (£7.8m) while the winner's prize will jump from €10.5m (7.8m) to €15m (£11.11m).

The most any team will be able to win will from 'basic' prize cash - before TV market share cash - will jump from €37.4m (£27.7m) to €54.5 (£40.4m), a hike of 46 per cent.

Yet it is the market pool money that promises to surge for English clubs especially, because BT Sport's £897m three-year deal with UEFA for all European club football kicks in next season, and is worth double what Sky previously paid. A lot of the increase, if not all, will filter to the English clubs in the Champions League.

Last season the four English clubs shared around €70m (£52m) in market pool cash, on top of performance cash, with United getting most, at €24m (£17.8m).

From next season, the total sum to English clubs is expected to leap by between 50 and 75 per cent, to between €105m (£78m) and €125m (£93m), with exact amounts to be confirmed. The biggest single English earner could get as much as €40m (£30m) of that pot alone, and more if only three clubs made it to the group stages.

Whichever way the sums are calculated, being in the Champions League is about to become hugely more lucrative for English teams in particular.

Prize money for the Europa League will also rise but it will remain very much the junior club competition. Currently for every pound UEFA give in prize money to Europa League clubs, Champions League clubs get £4.30. From next season the ratio will narrow to 3.3 to 1 from 4.3 to 1. But the highest-earning club in the lesser tournament will still only be able to earn a maximum of €15.3m (£11.3m).

'UEFA is really pleased that the new distribution system not only provides for a substantial rise in monies received by clubs participating in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, but also strengthens UEFA's solidarity principle, namely ensuring an even more substantial increase in solidarity payments to clubs,' said UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino.

'In this way, the new system provides a better deal for everyone, especially those clubs which did not qualify to the group stage of either of the two UEFA club competitions. This is a perfect example of the proper implementation of the solidarity principle which forms an essential part of UEFA's key values.'

Champs league on BT sport... It's going to be shite.

Makes you think.

We get in the CL this season and it's going to be a long, long time before any club in England is anywhere near us from a monetary pov. Providing the powers that be don't piss it all away on shite in the summer, obv.

Originally Posted by PeakyBlinder

Makes you think.

Our move.

£30m? Is that all? Not exactly the bank breaking amount you'd think when the doomsday scenario of not making the champions league was being touted.

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

Champs league on BT sport... It's going to be shite.

Owen is maybe the best pundit on tele atm - at least in terms of giving a decent insight into decision-making on the pitch and especially as a striker.

I honestly don't think any of the others come close to him in that respect tbh.

And in fairness McManaman is half decent as well, and Scholes is getting better.

Need to work on their predictions though, obviously


edit: jake humphrey's is clearly a massive #@&%!, which kind of wrecks things

Originally Posted by Semantic Lisp

Owen is maybe the best pundit on tele atm - at least in terms of giving a decent insight into decision-making on the pitch and especially as a striker.

I honestly don't think any of the others come close to him in that respect tbh.

And in fairness McManaman is half decent as well, and Scholes is getting better.

Need to work on their predictions though, obviously


edit: jake humphrey's is clearly a massive #@&%!, which kind of wrecks things

Originally Posted by Sparky***

£30m? Is that all? Not exactly the bank breaking amount you'd think when the doomsday scenario of not making the champions league was being touted.

That's just the money from UEFA.

3 guaranteed home matches = £15m in tickets, food and merchandise.

You've then got all the extra money from sponsors as well.

A run to the quarters will easily bring in revenues of over £100m. That's a huge chunk of overall revenue.

Originally Posted by Semantic Lisp

Owen is maybe the best pundit on tele atm - at least in terms of giving a decent insight into decision-making on the pitch and especially as a striker.

I honestly don't think any of the others come close to him in that respect tbh.

And in fairness McManaman is half decent as well, and Scholes is getting better.

Need to work on their predictions though, obviously


edit: jake humphrey's is clearly a massive #@&%!, which kind of wrecks things

You're just fishing now surely?

Originally Posted by dunk

You're just fishing now surely?

not really tbh - the context is that the standard across the rest of the channels is so low I suppose - is there a single decent pundit as a regular on BBC? ITV has Roy Keane. Sky's best is probably Neville who is frankly annoying as £#%&! half the time - Henry is hilariously shit. And Robbie Savage is all over every channel and the wireless too ffs, and he's the worst of the lot or pretty close to it

Owen is the best pundit on the telly -


Classic Throb.

Better when you fish than be a complete @#%&! in most football threads.

Champions league needs to be taken away from ITV though - their coverage is utterly embarrassing.

From the whole "we're cramming this in between shitty soaps" vibe they give off as they rush through a half-arsed pre match show, to having to listen to andy £#%&!ing townsend grunt and tut his way through 90 mins of shameless bias towards whatever english team is playing.

Snouts go deeper into the trough

Originally Posted by Semantic Lisp

Owen is maybe the best pundit on tele atm - at least in terms of giving a decent insight into decision-making on the pitch and especially as a striker.

I honestly don't think any of the others come close to him in that respect tbh.

And in fairness McManaman is half decent as well, and Scholes is getting better.

Need to work on their predictions though, obviously


edit: jake humphrey's is clearly a massive #@&%!, which kind of wrecks things

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Owen is the best pundit on the telly -


Classic Throb.

Better when you fish than be a complete @#%&! in most football threads.

if i'm a complete @#%&! it's due to your own limitations, pal

your opinion on owen clearly differs from mine, whoopee for you.

the name's Lisp btw

Originally Posted by Semantic Lisp

the name's Lisp btw

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I actually don't think you're a complete @#%&!...

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I actually don't think you're a complete @#%&!...

repeat after me

Semantic Lisp


i'm over here

Originally Posted by dunk

You're just fishing now surely?

Good news. More money being piled specifically into the strongest leagues. Fantastic for the European game