This season, Chelsea was named Europe Conference League champions after dominating the competition, but the prize money they earned reveals the actual profitability of the Champions League
The Prize of Chelsea for winning the Europa Conference League is exposed by the much more lucrative Champions League portion. The revelation rubs salt in the wounds of those who have just missed the qualification for UEFA's Elite Club competition This campaign: Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest.
The last day of the Premier League season was defined by the Battle for Champions League football, with Manchester City, Newcastle, Chelsea, Villa and Forest all with a scream of one of the three places up for grabbing. Pep Guardiola's side had the simplest job, which only realistically needed a draw to stamp their ticket. They did exactly that after a 2-0 win against Fulham.
With both the blues and the Nuno Espirito Santo's men who face each other on the last day, the winner would be guaranteed Champions League football. A 50th minute Levi Colwill-in meant that the visitors returned from their journey to the Midlands Happy, and ended in the fourth thanks to a 1-0 win, the hunger of the home team of a European elite European return.
In the light of the Loss of 2-0 of the Villans for Manchester United, which came under controversial circumstances after the decision to not allow a Morgan Rogers strike to allow a complaint to the PGMOL, Newcastle took the last place despite the losing of Everton.
The lucrative prize money associated with playing in the Champions League, which narrowly missed both Forest and Villa, has now been emphasized through a statistics in which the Europa Conference League winners and Sloanvan Bratislava, the team that only ended above the bottom of the elite competition table this time.
Chelsea was rewarded with a reported £ 18.5 million for their European efforts this period. The Slovak champions, on the other hand, despite losing all eight of their Champions League group phase matches, astonishingly deserved an almost comparable amount.
They only grabbed £ 15.5 million for the qualification for the competition, and extra amounts were earned for ending in a specific competition position and from broadcast income based on a ten -year club coefficientranglist.
A total of £ 18.46 million was collected by the team that ended 35th in the Champions League table, a figure related to that of the winners of the Conference League, reports Birmingham Live.
The forest of the Villans and Nuno, which is still smart of their losses, will feel this grim inequality in prize money, although they will present their skills in both the Europa League and the Conference League respectively.
Elsewhere, Tottenham-de Europa League winners of this season take 3.6 million when they qualified for the competition and performance-related amounts and their coefficient share of broadcast income on their journey to the final.
All in all, to win the tournament, Ange Postecoglou's Spurs achieved around £ 35 million, plus an extra £ 3 million for reaching the UEFA Super Cup. This has not even been taken into account the amounts that are linked to the subsequent qualification of the Champions League.
However, this amount is still overshadowed by the income of the final victors of the Champions League PSG, who has caught around £ 130 million for their success in Munich.