Real Madrid plays almost 50 million euros against City

The Champions League is more important than ever. If La Orejona has served other times to save a gray season in the League sports, this time conquering it would mean injecting an oxygen cylinder into the white coffers. The ravages of the coronavirus pandemic take their toll on finances that can see their income reduced by up to 180 million euros by the absence of public in the parties, the fall in the sales of official products and the smaller affluence of tourists who visit the Tour of the Bernabéu. In addition to that this year's preseason will not provide the juicy income that Madrid charges for the summer friendlies.

The comeback in Manchester is the key to a safe in which Madrid can find almost 50 million euros. “It's the economy,” to paraphrase the campaign slogan that brought Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992.

The Champions is presented to alleviate part of the bill of the pandemic. Only the fact of turning the tie against Manchester City would mean 10.5 million for the white club. Later, accessing the semifinals means 12 million more, playing the semifinal another 15 M € and lifting the European Cup, an additional 4 million. In addition, being the champion of Lisbon means playing the European Super Cup. Being in Budapest on September 24 reports 3.5 million and conquering the first title of the next season, another million more. All that adds up to 46 million euros.

To this we must add the part that corresponds to Madrid market pool and in which he still has at least 3 million euros in a conservative scenario. He market pool It is an item of 292 million euros (15% of the total) of which a quota is assigned to each country depending on the importance of its television market. As the countries of origin of the 32 participants depend, the quota varies each year for each country. In the case of Spain, it is around 20% of the total (last season it was 21.87%). Of that money, half is distributed based on the classification in the National League the previous season (40% of that half for the champion, 30% for the second, 20% for the third and 10% for the fourth). Madrid takes almost 6 million euros for being third in LaLiga Santander 2018-2019.

The other half of the quota market pool of each country is distributed in proportion to the games played in the edition of the Champions in question. This is where the 3 million we mentioned earlier come into play. If Madrid reached the final and Barça and Atlético did not advance further qualifying rounds, the total count of market pool white would amount to 15.3 million euros. If the opposite scenario were given (those of Zidane fall in eighths and Barca and Atletico will see the faces in the final), the balance of Madrid in the market pool it would stay at about 12.3 million. Thus the total loot at stake in Manchester between market pool and sports prizes, more than 49 million euros.

Madrid have earned € 71 million in 2019-2020

So far in the Champions League until the round of 16 (and provided that UEFA does not modify the award system due to the adverse effects of the pandemic) Madrid has signed up, market pool apart, a profit of 71 million euros. Just for being in the maximum continental competition, the white club makes sure to win more than 50 million euros. Of these, 15.25 million correspond to the fixed amount received by all the participants in the group stage and 35.46 million more as a result of the new prize system in force since the 2018-2019 season. This new distribution criteria distributes 488 million euros (a quarter of the pie, which totals 1.95 billion euros) based on a ranking that considers the European results of the last 10 years and historical titles. A classification in which no other club disputes Madrid's leadership: 380 points for the Whites. They are followed by Barcelona (309 points), Bayern (291) and Atlético (230).

For the three wins and the two draws in the six group stage matches, Madrid take 10.7 million (The equalizer is paid at 900,000 euros and the win at € 2.7m plus the proportional part of the remaining money from the ties).

Last season, in which Madrid fell in the round of 16 at the hands of Ajax, the white club entered 85,034 million euros, according to the official data published by UEFA. Of them, the departure of market pool it was 13,248 million. The previous campaign (2017-2018), in which he conquered the Thirteenth in Kiev, earned 88,654 million euros. But in that edition the old system of distribution of prizes still governed and the bag was 35% lower (1,268.9 million euros to be distributed). The Liverpool champion's check in 2018-2019 amounted to 111.1 million euros, although the team that won the most was the victim of the red in the semifinals. Barça pocketed 117.73 million euros for their best position in the ranking in 10 years, the market pool and the best performance of the azulgranas in the group stage.