English teams earn more from Champions League
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Your support makes all the difference.English teams continue to dominate the Champions League in financial terms even if they failed on the pitch, figures released today by UEFA have revealed.
Despite not progressing beyond the quarter-finals, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool earned a combined total of 140million euros (£114.6million) from television and prize money alone from last season's tournament.
That figure reflects the high value of the new ITV and Sky broadcasting deals for the competition and is comfortably higher that the 116m euros (£95m) earned by the four Italian teams including champions Inter Milan, and the 105m euros (£86m) by the four Spanish teams in the competition.
Inter Milan were the top individual earners with 48.7m euros (£39.8m) followed by Manchester United with 45.8m euros (£37.4m). Arsenal, who also made the quarter-finals, earned £27.3m with Chelsea making £26.3m and Liverpool £23.6m.
The figures reflect a 25% increase in the value of the broadcast deals being paid by ITV and Sky for the television rights for the 2009-12 period and apart from Chelsea, each English club enjoyed an average 10-15% rise compared to the previous season despite having a less successful Champions League.
The figures also highlight the discrepancy with sums earned from the new Europa League, even though that competition has been boosted by central marketing of TV and sponsorship rights.
Beaten finalists Fulham earned 10m euros, or £8.1m, while Everton's income was £2.8m, and Liverpool earned £2.3m after dropping down from the Champions League for the knock-out phase.
The disparity is even sharper in Scotland where Rangers earned 17.1m euros (£14m) for their part in the Champions League, almost ten times as much as Celtic's £1.5m for their Europa League run.
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