How much money will Real Madrid or Liverpool get after winning the Champions League?
After each of them secured more than 100 million euros in profits in their continental campaign in the 2021-2022 season, Liverpool and Real Madrid will play today, Saturday (23:00 UAE time) the final match of the European Football Champions League, whose total prizes have been reduced. Slightly due to the “Covid-19” pandemic, but the prize distribution system in general gives the riyal a greater share, even in the event of a loss.
The European Football Association (Wifa) will not prepare the final accounts until next June, but decided in May 2021 to mitigate over five years the losses in profits related to the “Covid-19” pandemic, which amounted to 531 million euros in the 2019-2020 season alone, through During the reduction of about 83 million euros from the prizes of his three continental competitions (the Champions League, the European League “European League and the Conference League) this season.
The "Covid discount" policy will lead to a reduction of about 3% of the 2.03 billion euros that are distributed to the 32 teams participating in the Champions League, the most lucrative competition and which accounts for 74% of European financial earnings for clubs.
Without imposing this reduction, each team participating in the group stage receives a minimum of €15.64 million before any point is earned.
Each victory in the group stage brings in an additional 2.8 million euros, and each draw brings 930,000 euros.
The teams qualified for the final round will receive an additional 9.6 million euros.
In addition, 10.6 million euros to reach the quarter-finals and 12.5 million euros for the semi-finals.
The winner of the final will receive an additional 20 million euros, compared to 15.5 million euros for the runner-up.
In addition to these fixed awards, there is a portion based on the club's performance over a ten-year period that could fetch up to 36.38 million euros: Real Madrid tops this ranking, ahead of Bayern Munich, while Liverpool is in 14th place.
There is also a TV rights cake of €300.3 million, distributed according to the value of each TV market of the participating clubs.
Without taking into account this last factor, which is difficult to assess, Liverpool has so far exceeded 100 million euros in profits, with 65 million collected during his career without a loss, 21 million thanks to the factor over ten years, and 15.5 million even if he lost on Saturday. .
Despite losing in the group stage to the Moldavian Sherif Tiraspol (1-2), Real Madrid is starting from higher foundations thanks to its historical performances, and will get 114 million in the event of a loss, without merging television rights.
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