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Newly crowned English Premier League champions, Manchester City have earned a record £176.2million for finishing first last season and that represent a jump of 15 per cent from the previous campaign.
The Premier League annual report shows how each of the 20 clubs is guaranteed at least £91.7m in earnings through the ‘equal share’ from UK and international broadcast deals, merit payments and central commercial pot.
The merit payments rise by increments of £1.7m for each league position and the total amount received is then dependent on how many of a team’s game are shown live on TV in the UK.
City, who won then league by five points from Arsenal last season, had 29 of their 38 games televised live – more than anyone else.
That pocketed them £25.3m in facility fees and when added to the highest merit payments in both the UK and international categories, City receive £176.2m in all.
Even Sheffield United, who have produced one of the worst seasons in Premier League history, should bank a nine figure sum despite finishing bottom and conceding more than a century of goals. That is mostly down to the Premier League’s incomparable global broadcast revenue.
Every club receives almost £80m in equal share payments – effectively a dividend from the billions made from TV deals across the world – and that is topped up by a basic commercial figure of just under £10m. Clubs are also awarded a facility fee of approximately £900,000 for every game they play live on UK TV.
But the big difference comes in merit payments, awarded on a sliding scale depending on finishing position. Last season, and expected to be close to the same this year, every place was worth £3.1m – ensuring the champions make £62.3m.
That is before factoring in the riches of reaching the Champions League, which can be worth another £100m to clubs depending on their performance in the following season. And the merit payments also mean clubs who have been mired in the mid-table morass for several weeks should not have had their minds on the beach.
The Premier League will not confirm the exact payments until early 2025 when their annual report is published but the figures below are unlikely to have changed too much by position.
How they finished and what they earned
1st Manchester City £176.2m
2nd Arsenal £172.2m
3rd Liverpool £168.3m
4th Aston Villa £164.3m
5th Tottenham £162.9m
6th Chelsea £149.7m
7th Newcastle £148.3m
8th Manchester United £151.9m
9th West Ham £138.7m
10th Crystal Palace 138.1m
11th Brighton £133.3m
12th Bournemouth £137.7m
13th Fulham £124.6m
14th Wolves £129m
15th Everton £117.5m
16th Brentford £118.6m
17th Nottingham Forest £120.5m
18th Luton Town £114m
19th Burnley £111.7m
20th Sheffield United £103.6m
(Figures based on last year’s confirmed prize money)