How much money does Atlético take and how much does it win as a prize for being League champion

The conquest of the League means for Atlético, in addition to a huge sporting success, an interesting economic injection for the rojiblancas coffers. As stipulated in the Royal Decree that regulates the commercialization of television rights, the final position of each team (on which 25% of the audiovisual income distribution depends) reports a different award and, in addition, conditions the next four years for good. Atleti, as champion, takes a generous bag in the 20-21. The cast is explained here.

According to the estimate of the specialist in economic data of Spanish football Roberto Bayon (@RobertoBayon_), the eleventh League will bring Atlético about 59.5 million euros, although it will not enter them now at once. What you receive now is determined by the last five seasons: the last one weights 35%, the last one 20% and the previous three, 15%. But equally, the success of the 20-21 will weigh 20% next year and 15% in the next three, so he will end up collecting these 59.5 million in five years, And now he will have to make accounts with the last courses: in 2020 he finished third, in 2019 and 2018 he was second and in 2017, third again. Real Madrid, for its part, takes 52.5 million euros from the sports concept of audiovisual rights for being runner-up.

The total count

Despite the title, Atlético will probably not be the team that takes the most money from LaLiga. Of the distribution that is made between the 20 clubs, half is equal parts, 25% for sports performance (€ 59.5M) and the other 25% for social implantation. In this aspect, Barça and Madrid are ahead. Adding these three amounts, in the 19-20 that Madrid won the three teams that entered the most were Barça (runner-up, but € 165M), Real Madrid (156.2) and Atlético (124.2). The one less Mallorca, with € 43.6 M.

With this distribution in which the final position in the classification counts It is also about encouraging that in the final stretch there are no teams that do not play anything. Although a group is already saved and without options to go to Europe, climb a position in the leaderboard can earn you an interesting amount of money, especially in the upper-middle area of ​​the table.

The difference between being champion and second, almost 10 million euros

Aside from the emotional joy of being a champion, winning the title is also a joy for the club's coffers. The difference between finishing first or second in the championship means receiving 7 million euros more or less in the distribution of LaLiga's audiovisual income. But there is more, the position also influences a part of the distribution of the money of the Champions League next season, the so-called market pool.

Although UEFA has yet to make public the financial distribution of the new triennial cycle (2021-2024) that starts next season, these last three campaigns the difference between accessing the maximum continental competition as champion of the Spanish League or as second has been almost three million euros. The first takes around 11.7 million euros and the runner-up just over 8.7 M €.