bearsrus 12 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 this was taken from teamtalk.com Figures made available by UEFA showed that Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal earned a combined £102million from Champions League television and sponsorship cash - a figure that does not include gate receipts or matchday revenue. European champions Manchester United, unsurprisingly, were by far the biggest earners in Europe with £33.9m while beaten finalists Chelsea were next with £28.7m, Liverpool took £21.1m and Arsenal £18.3m. Those four were also the biggest earners from the Premier League and UEFA are conscious that Europe's top club competition has created a wealth gap in domestic football. The current system is in place until 2012, but UEFA will seek to win backing for changes via the European Strategy Council, the consultative body representing clubs, leagues, players and associations. William Gaillard, UEFA communications director and special adviser to the organisation's president Michel Platini, said: "We are well aware there are some imbalances in the revenue distribution which have a negative effect in national leagues by widening the gap between the rich and not so rich. "We will talk to the clubs and see how they feel, and try to convince them that in the longer run it is not in their interest if, because of the way money is distributed, national leagues become too imbalanced. "This is something we have to bring to the strategy council and find a consensus, but we will have a very wide consultation policy." Gaillard said Platini's approach would be to win a broad agreement rather than impose the new system on the clubs. He added: "We have a situation that is fixed until 2012 so that gives us plenty of time to review it." The four English clubs earned a total of £102m and Celtic and Rangers picked up a further £18m meaning that 26% of the £462m total Champions League television and sponsorship revenues ended up in British hands. The financial success is due all four English clubs making the quarter-finals at least, and reflects the fact that the ITV/Sky Champions League deal is the biggest of any country in Europe. Simon Chadwick, professor of sports business strategy at Coventry University, said the Premier League clubs were benefiting from a "virtuous circle". "The more money you earn, the better the players you can sign, and the more success you have, and then you earn even more," said Chadwick. "But increasingly the big thing in the Premier League and in Europe is this issue of competitive balance. You don't want over-domination because that adversely affects the product." Chadwick said, however, that UEFA would be loath to upset the Premier League clubs because they added so much glamour to the European competition. He added: "There is a global turf war for television sports fans going on - for example the NBA in China have been much more proactive than football, and the Champions League need the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea - and the clubs need the Champions League too for their own profiles." UEFA's figures showed Celtic benefited from their second qualification for the knock-out phase to the tune of £10.3m while Rangers earned £7.7m, though they also brought in £4.1m from their run to the UEFA Cup final. Outside of Britain, the biggest earners were Roma, the Italian club who made it furthest in the competition, with £22.9m while Barcelona, the only non-English club in the semi-finals, were slightly behind on £21.7m. The lowest earners among the 32 were Shakhtar Donestsk of Ukraine who earned £5.6million. The difference compared to the sums earned from the UEFA Cup is stark. Apart from Rangers, who made the final, Everton's income from the competition was £400,000, Tottenham and Bolton each earned £352,000 and Aberdeen just £265,000. so if where is the figure of 30 million coming from?? and would this explain why we might not have a pot to piss in regurding a decent budget this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSuedeSambas 53,748 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Looking at those figures I think it's time UEFA tried to put a bit more into the UEFA Cup. The difference in the amount of money that teams earn is night and day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigy 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 The title is misleading, that was not including gate receipts for which we made around £1.5m per game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted E Bayer 484 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 7.7 + 4.1 million is 11.8 million for television and sponsorship cash a figure that does not include gate receipts or matchday revenue?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrochBear 3 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Add tv money for the Panathanaikos + Bremen games also. Uefa tv pot was from 1/4 finals. 7.7 + 4.1 million is 11.8 million for television and sponsorship cash a figure that does not include gate receipts or matchday revenue?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_RFC87 761 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 The £11million is prize money only, not match day, advertising, tv, tickets etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlegKuznetsov 10,816 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Strictly speaking, it includes prize money, appearance money and pool TV money. That doesn't include our earlier UEFA Cup and CL qualifiers. Tickets and the like have still to be added. We can add £12m-£15m for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andypendek Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Whatever the actual figure, it shows we should be instinctively sceptical of any figures bandied about by the papers and whatnot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imodium 410 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 At least we took a fair amount of money for our run in Europe. We'll hopefully aim for the last 16 in the CL this season which would be a nice we earner. Still pissed off though by the way the ticket prices rose as we progressed in the Uefa Cup. Even more pissed when the club had the cheek to give away "free tickets" to the travelling support in Portugal. I am proud of our run in the UEFA Cup but SDM should have been done for selling tickets at £40 - watching our performences at home surely broke the trade descriptions act Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVB 2,560 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Is that all? Makes you wish we hadn't bothered eh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlippinEck 3,701 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Is that all? Makes you wish we hadn't bothered eh? Whilst getting to the last 16 in terms of prize money appears to be the same in terms of getting to the uefa cup final, the exposure of getting to a european final (and indeed had we won it) far exceeds the last 16. Getting to the last 8 however should be an acheivable aim should we qualify from the champions league group stages Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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