Benfica, the Champions League makes you rich: that’s what the club has earned

The richest competition in the world: only by participating are almost 20 million. Here specifically how much money will enter the Portuguese coffers these days

The Benfic Back in Champions League For the fifth consecutive season. A result obtained by passing through the preliminaries, eliminating Mourinho’s Fenerbahce at the last round. Here is what the Aguias will collect for participation in the maximum continental tournament.

UEFA payments and what Benfica has already collected

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The qualification for the Champions League is, in addition to a great success from a sporting point of view, a huge economic resourceespecially for clubs that perhaps have a lower turnover of the European tops. That’s why in the playoff between Benfica and Fenerbahce there was much more than the simple participation in the tournament. The Portuguese, who will be part of the Champions League at the gates, were touched. Waiting for the draw of the maxi-girone calendar, scheduled for tonight 28 August at 18.00, that’s what the Lusitanians collected.

Let’s start with basic: 18.6 million euros. This is the figure receives each team that participates in the final phase. For “final phase “ Obviously we mean the one to which the clubs access after the preliminaries or directly from their respective championships, then from the single group onwards. By accessing the 36 -team ranking introduced in the past season, the Portuguese will be entitled to another prize: that for the placement. The company that will rank 36th will set its hands on 275,000 euros. To rise, every position is worth the same figure, up to the 9.9 million of the first place.

To this figure is added the Prize for each game That UEFA reserves for teams: 2.1 million in Vittoria and 700,000 euros in a tie in the group stage. Finally, there is also the so -called prize for the valuewhich aims to compensate the club based on how much this is worth from the point of view of European and extra-European television rights. Benfica will receive 8.65 million additional euros, two more than Sporting. The total is of 27.5 million euros.