PL Prize Money: Known to be the most celebrated and wealthy league in the world, take a look at purse value of the teams and players after every Premier League season
The Premier League is undoubtedly the most exciting and celebrated domestic league in the World and Europe. Not only has the Premier League teams been at their dominating best on the European Stage, but have also been able able to earn in Billion in their latest 2020-21 season.
Don’t believe it? Lets take a detailed look at the Premier League 2020-21 season prize money breakdown given to teams and players based on the given below criteria-
PL Prize Money: Premier League Earnings by TV Rights
The total prize money from the 3-year deal from both domestic and overseas TV Rights is divided into 3 parts. However the prize money breakdown of the latest 2020-21 season are not out yet, but we could certainly have an idea based on the 2019-20 Premier League edition.
The total money from domestic £5.136 billion and oversees £3.2 billion three-year deal was around £8.36 billion. While the total TV money is then spread equally into three seasons which is around £2.6 billion and that makes the yearly prize money fund for the Premier League teams.
PL Prize Money By Position
The Oversees TV Rights money is shared 100% equally, whereas the distribution of Domestic TV Rights is listed below
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50% is shared equally |
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25% is merit money
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25 % is facility money |
Domestic TV Money (£1.8 billion)
The domestic portion of the money will be divided among 20 clubs according to following model.
• 50% divided equally
• 25% Merit based: divided according to final league position in 2020-21 season
• 25% is divided as facility fee: to all clubs depending on how many times teams match was shown live.
Oversees TV Money (around £1 billion)
• Oversees TV money is divided equally between all 20 clubs and for the 2020-21 season all premier league clubs will get around £47 million each from this portion.
PREMIER LEAGUE TOTAL PRIZE MONEY
The list below adds the includes the equal share, commercial revenue, merit share, facilities and international TV rights earnings of the top 10 Premier League clubs of 2019-20 season to derive their total prize money of the season.
1. Liverpool – £153m
2. Manchester City – £148m
3.Manchester United – £151m
4. Chelsea – £143m
5. Leicester City – £132m
6. Tottenham – £140m
7. Wolves – £129m
8. Arsenal – £134m
9. Sheffield United – £119m
10. Burnley – £115m
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