Arsenal will have pocketed at least £95m in prize money from this season’s Champions League, should they beat Paris St-Germain in the final.
The Gunners have already guaranteed themselves a minimum of around £91.5m for reaching the final, although that may be nearer £130m depending on how much they have earned from Uefa in the form of television revenue.
For winning this season’s Europa League, Aston Villa have guaranteed themselves around £45.6m. That fee includes the minimum earned for qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
Crystal Palace won Wednesday’s Conference League final, their first European trophy. Their earnings from the Conference League are around a minimum of £18.9m, including what they have received for qualifying for next season’s Europa League.
Here is a breakdown of how much all three clubs have earned from Europe’s three club competitions this season.
How much have Arsenal earned from this season’s Champions League?
For reaching the final of this season’s Champions League, Arsenal have already banked around 105.6m euros (£91.5m). Winning the final itself is worth an additional 6.5m euros (£5.63m).
The breakdown of that total is formed from a wide range of inputs such as performance in the league phase, bonuses for each round and television revenue.
Arsenal received 18.62m euros (£16.14m) for qualifying for the league phase. For winning all eight league phase matches, they were given a 16.8m euros (£14.6m) bonus. They were then awarded 2m euros (£1.7m) for a finish between first and eighth place and a further 9.9m euros (£8.6m) for being the top-ranked team.
For reaching the last 16, Mikel Arteta’s side were awarded 11m euros (£9.5m). They were given an additional 12.5m euros (£10.8m) for reaching the quarter-finals and a further 15m euros (£13m) for the semi-finals.
As finalists, Arsenal have already guaranteed themselves 18.5m euros (£16m) – a number which will increase to 25m euros (£21.7m) should they beat PSG.
The remaining revenue comes from Uefa’s value pillar. This awards all teams competing in its club competitions a portion of revenue based on a country’s market value and a team’s club coefficient ranking.
In short, the more marketable a country is and the better the team you are, the more money you are awarded.
The range of the value pillar is broad, starting at a minimum of 1.28m euros (£1.1m) for the team ranked lowest. Given Arsenal’s high ranking in Uefa’s club coefficient and the marketability of English clubs in Europe, they are likely to be nearer the top end of clubs, which has a maximum reward of 46.08m euros (£39.9m).
It means that while Arsenal have already earned a guaranteed 105.6m euros (£91.5m) for reaching the final, the potential of winning the competition and the broad range of television money available could mean Arsenal’s total earnings for the competition is nearer to 156.9m euros (£136m).
Those totals do not include the minimum Arsenal will earn in next season’s Champions League, which will be at least 20.2m euros (£17.5m) but likely to be much higher.
How much have Aston Villa earned from this season’s Europa League?
While it is quite a drop from what Arsenal have earned this season, Europa League winners Aston Villa will have banked at least 52.6m euros (£45.6m) for winning Uefa’s second-tier club competition this season.
That pot does include what they have already guaranteed for qualifying for next season’s Champions League, among the prizes for the Europa League winner. However, Villa’s entry in the Champions League is as a direct result of their fourth-place finish in the Premier League.
Financial distribution across all three of Uefa’s club competitions are structured identically, with the main differences being in the amounts of money on offer.
For reaching the league phase of the Europa League, Villa were given 4.31m euros (£3.7m). They won seven of their eight matches in that round, earning 3.15m euros (£2.7m). They were given 600k euros (£520k) for a top-eight finish and a further 2.625m euros (£2.3m) for finishing second in the table.
Villa earned 1.75m euros (£1.5m) for reaching the last 16, 2.5m euros (£2.2m) for getting to the quarter-finals and an additional 4.2m euros (£3.6m) for getting into the semi-finals.
For beating Freiburg in the final in Istanbul, Villa received 13m euros (£11.3m).
Like the Champions League, there is also a value pillar for television money distribution. Villa were guaranteed 297,000 euros (£257,000) of that, although the top-end payment of 10.7m euros (£9.3m) or a total nearer to that is more likely.
It means that for the Europa League alone, Villa won 32.4m euros (£28.1m), rising to potentially nearer the 42.8m euros (£37.1m) mark.
But on top of that, Villa have already confirmed a further income of just under 20.2m euros (£17.5m) for reaching next season’s Champions League. That figure could be significantly more.
The 20.2m euros consists primarily of what is given out for qualifying for the league phase, as well as the minimum value pillar payment, and based on no league phase win or draw bonuses and a bottom place finish in the league table.
Because all of the above is unlikely, a high value pillar payment and a high league phase finish could increase payments to at least the 56m euros (£48.5m) before bonuses for wins, draws and reaching later rounds are included.
How much have Crystal Palace earned from this season’s Europa League?
Again, a major drop off compared to the earnings made by the Gunners and Villa, but Palace’s income from their debut European season proved to be lucrative, having already banked just shy of 22m euros (£19.1m) via a combination of winning the Conference League and for qualifying for the Europa League.
Unlike Arsenal and Villa, Palace are the only English club to directly qualify for a European competition as a result of winning a trophy this term.
From the Conference League itself, Palace have earned at least 17.3m euros (£15m) this term.
For qualifying for the league phase, Palace were given 175,000 euros (£152,000) for winning the play-off round and a further 3.17m euros (£2.75m) for getting to the league phase.
In Palace’s six league phase matches, they won three and drew one. That combined earned the club 1.333m euros (£1.16m). Oliver Glasner’s side received an additional 200,000 euros (£173,000) for finishing between ninth and 24th and a further 756,000 euros (£655,000) for a 10th-placed finish.
Palace then earned 800,000 euros (£694,000) for reaching the last 16, 1.3m euros (£1.1m) for getting to the quarter-finals and 2.5m euros (£2.2m) for reaching the semi-finals.
Winning the final earned Palace 7m euros (£6.1m) in prize money from that match alone.
In the Conference League, Uefa’s value pillar ranges from 85,000 euros (£74,000) to 3.06m euros (£2.65m). Their 17.3m euros guaranteed fee from the competition includes the bottom end of that figure, but could be as much as 3.5m euros (£3m) higher than that.
Via a combination of qualifying for the Europa League’s league phase, Palace have earned a minimum of 4.68m euros (£4.05m), potentially rising to nearer 17.7m euros (£15.3m) depending on their finish in the Europa League’s league phase and television revenue.
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