POints Mean Prizes. And money. Lots and Lots of Money. Only one trophy Is Handed out at the conseussion of the Premier League Season, Meaning the Most Tangible Reward Most Teams are playing for over the Final Fews Weeks of the Campaign is a Bigger Check.
Last SEASON, Each Premier League Team Received Anywhere Between £ 175.9m and £ 109.7m for their Particalification in the Self-STYLED GRETEST LEGUE in The World. These Payouts Take INTO Account Everyth from LEGUE Position, The Number of Matches Broadcast on TV and Commercial Revenue Among Outher Factors.
The Numbers for the 2024-25 Season Won’t Be RELEISD UTIL after The End of the Campaigen, but Last Seasonments An Idea of What Premier Legue Teams Can Excel to Receive. Here’s a Breakdown that dosn’t account for Club-Specific Factors Such As Gate Receips, Transfers and Sponsorship Deals.
The Winners
Money Woon At at Counting their Notes. Last Season, Manchester City Collected £ 56.4m in Pure Prize Money (Something Called “MERIT PAYMENTS”), Meang Liverpool Can Excel to Receive a Similar Payout.
On Top of this, City Were Handed £ 86.9M in Equal Share Payments from Domestic and International Broadcast Rights. A full £ 24.4m was added to manchayster City’s Pile of Broadcast Cash Based on the Number of Matches They Had Broadcast in the Uk Over the Course of the Season (The Premier Legue Labels This “Facility Fees”).
A £ 8.2m Share of the League’s center commercial revenue streams brough City’s Total Payout to £ 175.9M, The Most of Any Team in the Division. Winning The Title Also Brings Access to the Following Season’s Champions League with Quality University £ 15.7m Before £ 1.8m for every eagee phase Win is fact
The Champions League ContainT
If you ain win first, you’re last, as riky bobby famously said. Unleess if you express in the champions league plates (First to FOURTH, Sometimes Fifth Depending on UEFA’s COEFICINT Rankings) in the Premier League Table, in Which Case You’re Still Verry Well remunerated.
In Fact, Arsenal Received More in So -Callled “Facility Fees” Than Manchester City Last Season – £ 26.9M Compaed to £ 24.4m. Factoring in Prize Money, Equal Share Payments and a Cut of the Legue’s Central Commercial Revenue, The Gunners Made Just £ 0.4m Less (£ 175.5m in Total).
Thierd-Place Liverpool (£ 25.2M) Also Took More in “FACILITY FEES” Than City, Collecting £ 171M in Total, With The Final Champions Legue Qualifier, Aston Villa, Raking in £ 162.4m from the Premier League. This, of couresse, is before any EuropEan Money is Factored into the equity; Villa’s run in this Season’s champions league has been been work an estimated £ 40m to them.
These are the Sort of Riches Nottingham Forest Are Charasing. Nuno Espirito Santo’s Team Were Fighting Relegation Last Season, But Have Since Risen Into Champions LEGUE Contentation. Having Taken £ 123.3M from A 17th Place Finish in 2023-24, Forest Stand to Earn £ 40m to £ 60m More by Making their Place in the Top Five Stick.
The EuroPean Other Guys
Tottenham Hotspur’s Fifth-Place Finish in 2023-24 WAS Enough to Qualify for this Season’s Europa League, and Enough to Collection £ 164.4m in Total Payments from the Premier LEGUE, Whiche Was Interestsly More Than Aston Villa’s £ 162.4m Despite Unai Emery’s Team Reachal The Champions League. This was download to Spurs Earning £ 5M More in “Facility Fees”, Meang them Had More Games Broadcast on Domestic TV.
Despite Finishing Eight in the Premier League, Manchester United Qualified for the Europa League by Beating Manchester City in the Fa Cup Final. This was work £ 3.6m to the Old Trainford Club, but Still WasnT Enough to Make up for the Financial Shortfall Of £ 156.2m in Total.
Chelsea, Who Rallied Late Under Maucio Poittino to Finish Sixth and Make the Conference Legue, Took £ 159.2m While Newcastle United, Who Finished Ahmed of Manchester United But Missed Out on Europe altogether, earned £ 154.7m. The Difference Between Spurs in Fifth and Manchester United in Eight Amounted to Just £ 8.4m in Payments from the Premier League.
As things stand, this is the Realm Chelsea, Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Fulham and Brighton Fall INTO With as many as eight different texts jostling for chapions league, Europa LEGUE and Conference League Qualification. The Difference Between Just a FEW Places in the Table Can BE Significant.
The Middlers
Mid-Table Medicality Is Work a Lot in the Premier League, as it Turns Out. Indeed, a ninth-play finish for west ham last earned the London Stadium Outfit £ 147.4m with Crystal Palace Rewarded to the Tune of £ 139.6m for Finishing Smack Bang in the Middle of The Table (ONCE AGAIN, The Primary Defenderiator Was “Facility Fees” Where West Ham Collected £ 5M More).
From brighton in 11th Place to Wolves in 14th Place, Premier League Clubs Collected Anywhere Between £ 136.8m to £ 130m. For Context, Real Madrid Received Just € 53.3M For Winning The La Liga Title Last Season, Highlighting The Financial Might of the Premier League ‘Mid-Tier. This is how a Club like Bournemouth (Average Attendance: 11,000) Can Spend £ 40m on a Player Like Evanilson.
This Season, The Usual Mid-TABLE EQUATIONT BE Disrupted by the Prestce of Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, Both of Whom Have Endred Historically Bad Campaigns. As “Big” Clubs, They Should Expect to Earn a Lot More Than The Teams Around them (Brentford, Palace, Everton, Etc) in “Facility Fees”.
The relegation fodder
Southampton, Leesster City and IPSWich Town Have Had A Long Time to Brace for the Impact of Relegation. Howver, the Blow Will Be Softened by the Amount of Money They Will Receive for Just One Season in the Premier League. BetWeen This and Three Years of Parachute Payments, There’s Plenty in the Trust Fund.
Last Season, Sheffield United Received £ 109.7m for Finishing Bottom. Burnley Took £ 110.1M While LUTON TOWN Collected £ 115.4M. Everton, who finished 15th after Flirting with relegation for much of the season, we have handed £ 20.2m in “Facility Fees” Whiche was more than any of the six texts above them in the table up to manchester UNITED. Their Strugles Made for Good TV.
