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Premier League clubs shared £2.55BILLION in prize money and payments
Liverpool took home just over £158m, while Manchester City got £157m
Manchester United, meanwhile, received £154m with Chelsea getting £153m
The EFL is desperate for funding of £200m to £250m to cover potential losses
The Premier League's 20 clubs shared £2.55BILLION in prize money and 'central funds' payments last season, with champions Liverpool taking home just over £158m, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Runners-up Manchester City (£157m), third-placed Manchester United (£154m) and fourth placed Chelsea (£153m) were the other clubs topping £150m each - despite the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to wreak havoc across British sport. These numbers are sure to inflame the debate about how cash-rich top-flight clubs should be dipping into their pockets to assist struggling clubs lower down the pyramid.
But while the Premier League clubs have banked last season's money already, all of them will need to pay back part of that cash at some point in in rebates to broadcasters this season for last season's disrupted schedule. Those sums are still being calculated but will range from around £17m to £7m, depending on the size of each club's original payout. If no fans are allowed back into stadiums in the 2020-21 season, then the current 20 Premier League clubs will lose around £800m in match-day income, collectively, plus tens of millions more from kits and other merchandise no longer being sold on match days, and more still from non-footballing events (concerts, conferences and so on) now cancelled due to coronavirus.
Against this backdrop, the EFL is desperately seeking funding of between £200m and £250m to cover potential losses of that size from the absence of fans at the 72 Football League clubs below the Premier League. Some of the 72 EFL clubs face going out of business without fans or some kind of support.
The government would be one obvious source of funding, given that football is an industry supporting tens of thousands of jobs. But they want the Premier League clubs to step in and help, and the PL clubs in turn are not averse to that - but want to have fans back in their own grounds first. There are no simple solutions apparent. The £2.55bn of PL cash for 2019-20 was split in a number of ways, detailed in our accompanying table. Each club received an 'equal share' of £76m, some of that from domestic TV deals, some from foreign rights.
Each club received merit money of around £2.6m per place in the table, from that sum for bottom- placed Norwich to 20 times as much for champions Liverpool. About £1.74m of each £2.6min merit money comes from the domestic 'pot' and the balance - in a method being used for the first time last season - from the overseas 'pot'. Starting in 2019-20, part of the foreign TV cash was split according to finishing position rather than equally.
Each club also received a 'facility' payment which varied in size depending on how many of their games were shown live on TV in the UK in 2019-20. But the Covid crisis made this more complicated because every game from the restart onwards was shown live, but not all of those counted as 'paid for' games.
The Mail on Sunday has analysed the breakdown of live TV games per club, and the amount of paid-for games per club. All the details are in the accompanying table. Liverpool had 30 games live on TV for example, but only 27 counted as 'paid for'. Chelsea had 30 too, but all counted as paid for. Manchester City and Manchester United had 32 and 31 but both were paid for 28. Southampton had to fewest paid-for games (11) but were actually shown live 19 times.
The 'paid for' games were determined by which matches SKY and BT would have shown if they screened only the games originally contracted. The final payment to each club was a sum of around £6m each, comprising 'central commercial income' (from sponsors and suppliers of the league as a whole) and income from live radio contracts.
Liverpool took home just over £158m, while Manchester City got £157m
Manchester United, meanwhile, received £154m with Chelsea getting £153m
The EFL is desperate for funding of £200m to £250m to cover potential losses
The Premier League's 20 clubs shared £2.55BILLION in prize money and 'central funds' payments last season, with champions Liverpool taking home just over £158m, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Runners-up Manchester City (£157m), third-placed Manchester United (£154m) and fourth placed Chelsea (£153m) were the other clubs topping £150m each - despite the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to wreak havoc across British sport. These numbers are sure to inflame the debate about how cash-rich top-flight clubs should be dipping into their pockets to assist struggling clubs lower down the pyramid.
But while the Premier League clubs have banked last season's money already, all of them will need to pay back part of that cash at some point in in rebates to broadcasters this season for last season's disrupted schedule. Those sums are still being calculated but will range from around £17m to £7m, depending on the size of each club's original payout. If no fans are allowed back into stadiums in the 2020-21 season, then the current 20 Premier League clubs will lose around £800m in match-day income, collectively, plus tens of millions more from kits and other merchandise no longer being sold on match days, and more still from non-footballing events (concerts, conferences and so on) now cancelled due to coronavirus.
Against this backdrop, the EFL is desperately seeking funding of between £200m and £250m to cover potential losses of that size from the absence of fans at the 72 Football League clubs below the Premier League. Some of the 72 EFL clubs face going out of business without fans or some kind of support.
The government would be one obvious source of funding, given that football is an industry supporting tens of thousands of jobs. But they want the Premier League clubs to step in and help, and the PL clubs in turn are not averse to that - but want to have fans back in their own grounds first. There are no simple solutions apparent. The £2.55bn of PL cash for 2019-20 was split in a number of ways, detailed in our accompanying table. Each club received an 'equal share' of £76m, some of that from domestic TV deals, some from foreign rights.
Each club received merit money of around £2.6m per place in the table, from that sum for bottom- placed Norwich to 20 times as much for champions Liverpool. About £1.74m of each £2.6min merit money comes from the domestic 'pot' and the balance - in a method being used for the first time last season - from the overseas 'pot'. Starting in 2019-20, part of the foreign TV cash was split according to finishing position rather than equally.
Each club also received a 'facility' payment which varied in size depending on how many of their games were shown live on TV in the UK in 2019-20. But the Covid crisis made this more complicated because every game from the restart onwards was shown live, but not all of those counted as 'paid for' games.
The Mail on Sunday has analysed the breakdown of live TV games per club, and the amount of paid-for games per club. All the details are in the accompanying table. Liverpool had 30 games live on TV for example, but only 27 counted as 'paid for'. Chelsea had 30 too, but all counted as paid for. Manchester City and Manchester United had 32 and 31 but both were paid for 28. Southampton had to fewest paid-for games (11) but were actually shown live 19 times.
The 'paid for' games were determined by which matches SKY and BT would have shown if they screened only the games originally contracted. The final payment to each club was a sum of around £6m each, comprising 'central commercial income' (from sponsors and suppliers of the league as a whole) and income from live radio contracts.
