mdingwall
Administrator
How much is tonight’s game worth to us?
I asked Lee, one of the FF lads, to have a nosey around the UeFa regulations and other sources of info and coke up with some numbers. Be aware there are some variables and unknowns involved.
Ok lads a few wee points. I've speculated a bit and also included projections of what I think this team could achieve in the respective competitions. As ever I'm choosing to be optimistic. I appreciate not everyone will be
As you can imagine the CL is where it's at. Even if we don't get to the group stage it is absolutely imperative that we make it past this mob tonight.
CL Play Off Stage
£4.23m + gate receipts for going out at this stage. Obviously we don't get the £4.23m if we qualify but, you are talking the guts of £6m there plus the gate from tonight. It's not what we would all want but it's still a healthy figure.
CL Group Stage
£13.23m + Gates + bonus money for wins and draws + coefficient + TV money
£2.3m for a win
£900k for a draw.
£960k per coefficient share. Unfortunately with this the scum are still ahead of us and there are already another 2 teams between us and them who have qualified. This means that they will have at least 3 shares more than us or £2.7m. this could of course end up being more depending on who qualifies and their ranking.
TV money - best guess so far is £6m for Scotland. It's the Record so I'm loathe to consider it as factual however when you look at what the scum previously earned, relative to what the TV pool has now been cut to 600m to 300m overall I don't think this is far away. Should we qualify the pot is split in two and we get 45% of the first half with the remaining half distributed depending on performance. In real terms it means we could earn more TV money than them despite receiving less of the original share.
To put it into context, if we were to win 1 game and draw two in the CL groups you are looking at around £25m and that's before you consider if that record would be enough to get us 3rd and then into the EL knock-out phase. If it was we would then earn from that prize pool and of course sell out at least another tie or two.
Optimistically a figure of £30m + is achievable in that scenario.
Europa League
EL as you can imagine is considerably less initially but, you CAN return good sums if you go deep in the competition.
£3m for group stage
£500k for a win
£200k draw
Plus bonuses for qualifying for each round.
Coefficient is only £100k per share meaning the highest ranked team takes in £3.2m. This is in comparison to the £36m Real Madrid will net for the CL number 1 spot.
TV money is considerably less as you would imagine (less than half of that for the CL). Impossible to calculate as a lot of factors at stake including whether the filth drop down or not. Reasonable to expect at least £2m from this though and that would obviously increase the further we went.
The big difference is we can go a bit further in this competition which means more games, more bonuses and more gate receipts.
With EL I'm not greedy, I don't expect us to make the final every year but, I think quarters is a reasonable target now based on our last 4 years. Basing it on a group campaign of 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats, the figure would stand at around £18.5m if we go out tonight. £22.5m if we make it through but go out at CL play off stage.
Hope all of that makes sense. As said was a little bored and my mind wandered thinking of different scenarios.
In the here and now though? Tonight is a £6m game of football.
I asked Lee, one of the FF lads, to have a nosey around the UeFa regulations and other sources of info and coke up with some numbers. Be aware there are some variables and unknowns involved.
Ok lads a few wee points. I've speculated a bit and also included projections of what I think this team could achieve in the respective competitions. As ever I'm choosing to be optimistic. I appreciate not everyone will be
As you can imagine the CL is where it's at. Even if we don't get to the group stage it is absolutely imperative that we make it past this mob tonight.
CL Play Off Stage
£4.23m + gate receipts for going out at this stage. Obviously we don't get the £4.23m if we qualify but, you are talking the guts of £6m there plus the gate from tonight. It's not what we would all want but it's still a healthy figure.
CL Group Stage
£13.23m + Gates + bonus money for wins and draws + coefficient + TV money
£2.3m for a win
£900k for a draw.
£960k per coefficient share. Unfortunately with this the scum are still ahead of us and there are already another 2 teams between us and them who have qualified. This means that they will have at least 3 shares more than us or £2.7m. this could of course end up being more depending on who qualifies and their ranking.
TV money - best guess so far is £6m for Scotland. It's the Record so I'm loathe to consider it as factual however when you look at what the scum previously earned, relative to what the TV pool has now been cut to 600m to 300m overall I don't think this is far away. Should we qualify the pot is split in two and we get 45% of the first half with the remaining half distributed depending on performance. In real terms it means we could earn more TV money than them despite receiving less of the original share.
To put it into context, if we were to win 1 game and draw two in the CL groups you are looking at around £25m and that's before you consider if that record would be enough to get us 3rd and then into the EL knock-out phase. If it was we would then earn from that prize pool and of course sell out at least another tie or two.
Optimistically a figure of £30m + is achievable in that scenario.
Europa League
EL as you can imagine is considerably less initially but, you CAN return good sums if you go deep in the competition.
£3m for group stage
£500k for a win
£200k draw
Plus bonuses for qualifying for each round.
Coefficient is only £100k per share meaning the highest ranked team takes in £3.2m. This is in comparison to the £36m Real Madrid will net for the CL number 1 spot.
TV money is considerably less as you would imagine (less than half of that for the CL). Impossible to calculate as a lot of factors at stake including whether the filth drop down or not. Reasonable to expect at least £2m from this though and that would obviously increase the further we went.
The big difference is we can go a bit further in this competition which means more games, more bonuses and more gate receipts.
With EL I'm not greedy, I don't expect us to make the final every year but, I think quarters is a reasonable target now based on our last 4 years. Basing it on a group campaign of 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats, the figure would stand at around £18.5m if we go out tonight. £22.5m if we make it through but go out at CL play off stage.
Hope all of that makes sense. As said was a little bored and my mind wandered thinking of different scenarios.
In the here and now though? Tonight is a £6m game of football.