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The Money differences between the league’s
First, we want to show you an overall insight into the Big Five leagues and their income for the last five years.
As probably predicted, the Premier League is the big winner in this table, but how come?
The influence of TV rights
One of the reasons for the Premier League’s wealth is the highest TV rights. The Premier League earns a total of 5.1 billion Pounds, which is €5,91 billion a season on TV rights. This is more than double the Serie A and La Liga, the second and third place. This large amount of money is split between the 20 participating clubs by 50% equally, 25% facility fees and 25% merit payments. All the international broadcasting money is split equally between the 20 clubs. This information is confirmed by theatletic.com.
Sponsorships over the Five leagues
Large companies in all five leagues want to invest in sponsorship deals. Again, the Premier League is in the lead with €1.17 billion out of 440 endorsements. Following closely behind is the Bundesliga, securing the second spot with 617 deals that yield €748,49 million. Meanwhile, La Liga secured the third position, amassing €691,20 million per season from various sponsorships. This underscores the competitive landscape for clubs outside the realm of Barcelona and Real Madrid, despite the presence of the two largest clubs globally in the league.
Predictably, Serie A occupies the fourth place, boasting a total of €447,58 million in sponsorship deals for the Italian league. However, this figure surpasses the sponsorship earnings of Ligue 1, the top-tier French football league, which generates €364,50 million annually.
Matchday Prizes
Prizes differ on age, seat in the stadium, importance, and the home playing team. But research of Statista shows that the average highest prizes in Europe are the following:
Prizes of big Tournaments
The highest teams of these five leagues compete yearly, with other European competitions, for big prize awards in international tournaments. But how much are these awards worth?
International performance of the big five leagues, the last five years
The performance of the big five leagues is based on the achievements in the Champions League. Due to the significant increase in the prize fund when a team wins in the round of sixteen, all the teams that reached the quarter-final and received the prize money will be looked at. The table below shows that the Premier League 13, La Liga 8, Serie A 5, Bundesliga 6, and Ligue 1-3 were reached.
Does more Wealth create a better competition
As this blog has shown, big money numbers are going around in football. The Premier League is the wealthiest overall, La Liga is second, Serie A third, Bundesliga fourth, and the Ligue 1 is fifth. The results in the Champions League are the same order except for the switch between the Serie A and the Bundesliga.
