The final Premier League standings for 2024/2025 have been confirmed - as prize money becomes clear for Manchester United and Manchester City.
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Pep Guardiola with Ruben Amorim.
Pep Guardiola with Ruben Amorim.
The Premier League season has come to a conclusion and all 20 clubs are poised to receive their annual prize money payout. Last term, they shared £2.84billion from the division, benefitting from six distributions via their central revenue system.
The league explains that this "ensures the most equitable distribution of funds of any major European league", guaranteeing each club banks over £100million. Liverpool - who picked up the title during Arne Slot's first ever season managing in England - will top the earnings.
Manchester City, last season's champions, pocketed a total of £175.9million - while second-placed Arsenal received £175.5million. An equal share of domestic and international broadcast rights, amounting to £86.9million the previous season, was disbursed among all competitors.
Moreover, each team bagged £8.2million from the league's central commercial revenues. Merit payments were allocated based on final standings, and facility fees correlated with the frequency of televised matches per club.
City picked up £56.4million as champions in terms of merit payments last year. Despite finishing runner-up, Arsenal emerged as the most televised squad and added an extra £26.9million, as per reports from The Mirror.
Sheffield United, at the bottom of the table, secured a basic merit payment of £2.8million last season. These sums are scaled such that the champions earn 20 times this basic rate - with 19 times for the second place - descending accordingly.
These figures are expected to remain roughly the same for this season, but the final total won't be confirmed until the league publishes their annual report detailing exactly how much each club has earned.
The Premier League is the wealthiest football enterprise globally - with Deloitte's most recent annual review of football finance showing that the 20 clubs generated over £6billion in revenue for the first time ever during the 2022/2023 campaign.
Here's a breakdown of what each Premier League club should earn based on their finishing position;
1st (Liverpool) - £56.4m.
2nd (Arsenal) - £53.5m.
3rd (Manchester City) - £50.7m.
4th (Chelsea) - £47.9m.
5th (Newcastle) - £45.1m.
6th (Aston Villa) -£42.2m.
7th (Nottingham Forest) - £39.4m.
8th (Brighton) - £36.7m.
9th (Bournemouth) - £33.8m.
10th (Brentford) - £31m.
11th (Fulham) - £28.2m.
12th (Crystal Palace) - £25.4m.
13th (Everton) - £22.5m.
14th (West Ham) - £19.7m.
15th (Manchester United) - £16.9m.
16th (Wolves) - £14m.
17th (Tottenham Hotspur) - £11.3m.
18th (Leicester) - £8.5m.
19th (Ipswich) - £5.7m.
20th (Southampton) - £2.8m.