The Europa League has thrown the curtain on the edition of the 2019/2020 season with the final between Villarreal and Manchester United. Unai Emery's men have won their sixth Europa League after beating the English team on penalties in an exciting match, but beyond the trophy and prestige, winning this title has other advantages.
One of the great attractions of the competition for many of the teams that participate in it is the economic pinch they can get for reaching the final rounds. For this reason, to a large extent, the health of a club in this aspect is directly linked to sporting success. UEFA introduced the profit system two seasons ago, that this campaign ends, in which all participating teams they secure a fixed amount of € 2.92M for participating in the group stage of the Europa League.
Villarreal have made history and achieved their first major European title after the victory against Manchester United. Unai Emery, king of the Europa League, has achieved his fourth wound. The yellow set se has pocketed 20.01 million euros for the results obtained throughout the competition. In addition, to that amount must be added 3 million for the coefficient ranking and another 3.5 to ensure their participation in the next edition of the European Super Cup. Total, the club chaired by Fernando Roig will take around 30.6 million euros.
To this must be added what all the teams earn by market pool, which is part of UEFA's revenue sharing.. Just to raise the glass today, the winner has won 4 million euros for this and another 3.5 for participating in the European Super Cup. But how are the Europa League prizes distributed?
UEFA awards for tournament results
For each victory in the group stage, € 570,000 and € 190,000 per draw. The undistributed amounts (190,000 euros for each tie) will be pooled and redistributed among the clubs that play the group stage in amounts proportional to their number of victories. The group winner took € 1M and the second € 500,000.
Revenue distribution criteria in the Europa League
| Initial payments1 | 25% | € 140 M |
| Awards for results | 30% | € 168 M |
| Ranking of coefficients | fifteen% | € 84 M |
| Market pool | 30% | € 168 M |
| TOTAL |
€ 560 M |
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1It is the fixed fee of 2.92 million euros that each team receives for participating in the group stage.
Fountain: UEFA.
But there is not the thing. For reaching the round of 32 they pocketed another € 500,000, to go to eighths they won € 1.1M, 1.5 million for accessing rooms and for disputing the € 2.4M semifinals. Finally, the two teams that achieve To play the grand final they will receive € 4.5M. The champion will get € 4M more. A winner who will therefore qualify for the European Super Cup. This will earn you another € 3.5M.
The Seville, champion of the 2019/2020 edition, he pocketed around € 20-22M just for these types of prizes.
- Fixed by group stage: € 2.92M
- Group stage win: € 570,000
- Group stage tie: € 190,000
- Round of 32: € 500,000
- Round of 16: € 1.1M
- Quarter finals: € 1.5M
- Semifinals: € 2.4M
- Runner-up: € 4.5M
- Champion: € 8.5M