The economic importance for Atlético of having been third

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Atlético de Madrid
closed its participation in LaLiga 19/20. He did so with the objective set, to finish in the top four of the competition. However, those of Simeone they managed to be on the podium one more season. Since Simeone took over, except in the first year in which he took the team halfway through the season, has ended in positions of Champions.

Eight seasons in a row Cholo putting the team in the top four. Five third places, two second places and one first, the title of The league of the season 13/14.

In this complicated course, when the Athletic went to a halt due to the health crisis, the team was out of the Champions and his participation in the next continental event was seriously in jeopardy.

Therefore, the matter of talking about being third was not even mentioned. But everything changed after the return to competition, being the Athletic one of the best in The league, almost to the rhythm of Real Madrid, who finished the season as champion.

Therefore, in the last days he settled in third position and fought it, because beyond the fact that on the penultimate day he had certified his position as Champions, being third or fourth mattered.

It mattered no longer because of having to play the preview, which for several courses has no longer had to be undertaken for the Spanish teams, but for a simply economic matter. And it is that, for several courses, The league reward the position you stay in. But what difference is there between staying in one place or another?

Well, in the case of Atlético as in the rest, the higher up, the more economic prize. We will have to wait until LaLiga makes the financial awards public, but everything suggests that the difference between one position and another will vary by eight million euros, according to a study in the newspaper. Brand.

It will depend on the losses caused by the coronavirus health crisis. A circumstance that in the case of Athletic it amounts to more than one hundred million euros. For the distribution of this course will depend on the distribution of television rights, which are still unknown. In the past year the difference for the Athletic between being second with the third, Real Madrid, It was almost 1.5 million euros.

Facing this course, the distribution of television rights is increased, hence, according to the aforementioned newspaper, from the seventh to the first, each position won will be equivalent to approximately eight million euros more. In the total distribution of quantities, the variable of the final position represents 25% of the total.