Man City to bank a guaranteed £53million in next year’s revamped Champions League before they kick a single ball
MANCHESTER CITY will earn a guaranteed £53million in next year’s Champions League – without kicking a ball.
The Etihad side will be able to land £133.5m if they win every game – up from the £117m they earned for last season’s triumph.
And England’s other representatives can all gross huge sums, with Liverpool just fractionally behind City in the new money table.
Pep Guardiola’s side can add an extra £3.67m if they retain their title at Wembley in June and then win the Uefa Super Cup for the second year running – taking their potential European earnings to £137.21m.
But French giants Paris Saint-Germain will be Europe’s top pre-season earners under a new calculation system agreed by Uefa’s top brass.
The revamped competition, with 36 teams in the expanded Champions League, will be worth a total of £372m more to participating clubs from next season.
That sees the round by round prize fund increase from maximum earnings of £72.9m per club to £94.9m.
The new system will see all teams play eight opponents – with four games at home and four away – to create a “final” table.
The team top of that table will collect £8.6m, in addition to their starting bonus of £15.9m and £1.8m for every league stage win.
Further bonuses for each stage reached in the competition – with the top eight teams in the table going straight through to the last 16 and the clubs ranked ninth to 24th playing off to join them – boost the performance prize fund by 43.4 per cent to a total £1.35billion.
But City will also benefit from a new calculation for the remaining £730m available to the clubs, which sees the previous “TV market pool” and controversial “coefficient” calculations merged together.
It sees around 80 per cent of the remaining cash distributed by a calculation of performances in European football over the past five seasons and the size of the individual TV pot paid by broadcasters in each nation.
TNT Sport are paying £305m per season for live coverage of all but 17 of the 189 matches, with Amazon Prime screening the others – the first pick of Tuesday games – and highlights on BBC for the first time.
But the total of those deals are thought to be slightly under the £411m per year cable outfit Canal+ are paying for rights in France.
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It means PSG will take the biggest share of that pot – £30.9m – followed by City on £30.1m and Liverpool, assuming they finish in the Prem top four, on £29.2m.
If Arsenal, Tottenham or Manchester United qualify, they will all take in excess of £23m from that pot.
The remaining approximate 20 per cent will be determined by a 10-year ranking of European performances, although no longer including bonus points for past title wins.
City are certain to be third in that list – behind Real Madrid and Bayern Munich – earning a further £7.3m.
Liverpool are set to pick up £6.23m from that pot for a total “value pillar” share of £35.43 compared to City’s £37.28m.
The new prize fund, though, means clubs will earn LESS money per game than under the current system even if the gross figure is higher.