Every wondered how the UEFA Champions League money is distributed between the 32 participation clubs and whole lot of clubs taking part in Qualification before the group stages ? Lets take a look at the last couple of years money statistics, Just ask Arsenal how important Champions League competition is for every top tier club throughout European leagues
UEFA Champions League is the highest paying competition in the World, even more than FIFA World Cup and Euro Championship, so how does the TV money goes to clubs as well as the Prize Money. When Chelsea won the Champions League in 2012 beating Bayern on penalties the verage viewing figure were around 167 million. THe 1993 season was the breakthrough season where new champions league format was introduced where more top level teams could take part in the competition and more high profile games result in more fruitfull TV money and sponsors.
Champions League Prize Money:
Champions League is the highest paying competition and if a team plays in the plaoffs they recieve around €2.1 Million, even if they fail to qualify for the group stage, once they reach there all 32 teams recieve €8.6 Million as base money regardless of the results, while there are incentive base money as well and €1 is give to a team whenever they win the group game and €0.5 when they draw, qualifying to the Round of 16 further give a team aroudn €3.5 and so on take a look at the table below.
Position
Prize Money
Playoffs
€2.1m
Base fee for group stage
€8.6m
Group match Win:
€1m
Group match draw:
€500,000
Round of 16
€3.5m
Quarter-finals
€3.9m
Semi-finals
€4.9m
Runnerup finalist
€6.5m
Winning the Final
€10,5m
TV Money
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So if a club go all the way and win the competition as of 2012-13, in case of Byayern Munich who won the competition in 2013 recieved around €30,5m as prize money + €21,8m as Tv money from Champions League making their win a worthy of €52.3 Million overall
Champions League glory vs Premier League:
When Chelsea won the Champions League they earned around €60 million in total prize money + TV money from UEFA, which was higher than they earned in Premier league in the same year which was around £54 million.
you can see from the above analysis that how Premier league teams do in CHampions League in the last couple of years and how much did they earn, while following diagram shows why for Arsenal finishing in the top 4 in the league is like winning the league, by competing in the champions league top 4 premier league clubs have huge money advantage over the other 16 teams in the league.
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