Champions League winnings: PSG gets the biggest share of the cake
PSG will probably not console themselves with that but their pain may be a little less strong. Defeated in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich (1-0) this Sunday, the French club claim the number one place in terms of total competition wins. After having published a final ranking before the semi-finals, the Swiss Ramble blog this time released a definitive table of the sums received by the participants in this edition of the Cup with the Big Ears.
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It is therefore 134 M € which will fall in the pocket of the champion of France. A nest egg that will do a lot of good for Parisian finances, the losses of which are estimated at around € 200 million with the resulting health and economic crisis. Between his participation in the competition (15.25 M €), the prize money (that is to say the gains generated according to the course achieved in LoC, 62.7 M €), the UEFA coefficient (28.8 M €) and the TV pool (i.e. the sums paid by national broadcasters, 27.2 M €), PSG is the club that will receive the biggest check.
PSG earn € 4m more than Bayern
The leaders must not yet claim victory too soon because UEFA has warned. It’s not impossible that the TV rights will be lower than expected. In this unprecedented Final 8 formula, the number of matches played has been reduced compared to pre-crisis forecasts. Obviously, without the quarterfinals and semi-finals played back and forth, broadcasters could revise the bill downwards. The European body is expected to communicate on this subject by September.
In this ranking, PSG has this time taken the upper hand over Bayern Munich. The 2019/2020 winner expects to pocket € 130m according to Swiss Ramble. This slightly lower amount can be explained by various criteria. The prize-money (68.8 M €) and the UEFA coefficient (33.2 M €) are higher among the Bavarians, but the latter see their revenues linked to the TV pool less (12.7 M €). In France, TV rights are more substantial than in Germany (€ 59.2 million against € 34.5 million) and the sharing is different. Not only is it calculated according to the league rank of the previous season (2018/2019 in this case) and the course in the Champions League, but also and above all because Ligue 1 has only three qualified in the Ligue des Champions (OL and LOSC this season), when the Bundesliga counts… 4 (BvB, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen). In France, the cake is bigger and there is less to distribute.
The highest placed clubs from countries outside the Big Five leagues are #Benfica € 52m (17th), #Ajax 48m (18th), Shakhtar Donetsk € 44m (20th), Zenit Saint Petersburg € 42m (21st), Red Bull Salzburg € 36m ( 24th), Olympiacos € 35m (25th) and Galatasaray € 30m (26th). pic.twitter.com/FCiME6QOKv
– Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) August 24, 2020
