Manchester City closed last season with three championships and a record revenue of €964 million. A fifth of that business was generated with the audiovisual rights of the Premier League.
The English league announced the 2022-2023 distribution, where the City he takes £176.2 million (€206.5 million euros), a new record for the club led by Ferran Soriano.
The difference between the champions and the bottom this time was 1.7 times. The last in the classification, Southampton, had a turnover of £103.6 million (€121.4 million), £72.6 million less (€85 million) than the citizens.
Total, The Premier distributed £2,781.1 million (€3,259.4 million) between their clubs. City took 6% of the total to distribute. You Arsenal followed closely behind, with £172.2 million (€201.8 million), and with more than £160 million (€187.5 million) the other two Champions teams appear (Manchester United and Newcastle United), in addition to Liverpool FC, which fell to Europa League positions.
However, the reds maintained their status thanks to the distribution of televised matches on United Kingdom, where there are strips blocked from the TV. They broadcast 28 games, only one less than City and the same as Arsenal, which allowed them to earn £162.9 million (€190.8 million).
Another key point that justifies the leadership of the premier Compared to the rest of the major leagues, it is its international pull. Since the current audiovisual contract, which started in 2022-2023, the Premier now invoices more for its rights abroad than for the sale of national TV. For this reason, each team secured £48 million (€56.5 million) in this way, to which variables linked to classification were added.
One of its main markets is the United States, where half of its club owners come from and where it renewed in 2021 with NBC at a rate of €396 million, on average, per season with a contract until 2028. In total, the Premier distributed 960 million pounds (€|1,125.1 million) equally for the international rights.
In the British market, 25% is distributed according to how many times the British television stations have chosen the clubs and, therefore, Brighton & Hove Albion, despite being sixth classified, earned less than 9% more than the twelfth classified , which was Chelsea. The Blues had 24 matches televised, which allowed them to earn £21.1 million (€24.7 million) through this specific channel, 32% more than Brighton, of which they broadcast 16 matches live.
With a similar situation, Aston Villa, who snatched the last European spot from Tottenham Hotspur on the field, took less money. The Spurs had 26 games televised, and they are ranked within the top-6 of the cast despite their discreet classification.
The difference is also evident when looking at ninth place in the Premier table, occupied by Brentford, whose television rate was 9% lower than that of Tottenham. He took £138.7 million (€162.5 million) and leads a bandwagon that culminates in the relegation places.
Only the three clubs that today play in the Championship (Second Division) did not exceed £115 million. The worst classified, Southampton, also suffered the lowest media image compared to Leeds United and Leicester City, clubs with a large social mass, which caused them to have many more matches televised. As it is, the difference in television money between the last one and its two predecessors was 8% and 10%, respectively.
Beyond these differentials, the slight gap between the 20 clubs in the category remains. The competition distributes 57% of the television equally. That is, £1,584 million (1,856.4 million euros). Separately there is another £188 million (€220.3 million), 6.7% of the total, distributed equally and related to centralized commercial income. Among the variables, the percentage reserved for televised matches in the United Kingdom accounts for 12.7% of the distribution, and sporting merits (classification), 23.5%.
Finally, The Premier League has already guaranteed Facebook a slight 4% improvement on its national TV contract from 2025, when the next cycle begins, which adds one year more than usual, until 2029. An agreement announced a year and a half in advance and that maintains Sky, TNT and BBC as audiovisual partners. Amazon falls.
To earn £1,676 million (€1,956 million) annually, the English league has added 70 more games per season and has added a new slot of television schedules, in addition to the already mentioned extra year in the contract.
Source: Ambito
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