Finale in Munich
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The Champions League is not only sporty the elite event in European football. Financially, the premier class is extremely lucrative. Thanks to the new competition format and new UEFA distribution key, the two finalists Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan have already taken up more money in this competition than ever before. In the end, the endgame champion can get a record price of almost 150 million euros. For comparison: Last year’s winner Real Madrid took 138.8 million in 2023/24.
The winner of the final on Saturday in Munich gets 10.5 million euros. 4.0 million euros of this are officially considered a participation bonus for the UEFA supercup, i.e. the match against Europa League winner Tottenham Hotspur.
Rain for the Champions League finalists
Both teams have already taken more than 135 million euros this season. This includes 18.62 million euros in the start -up bonus for the league. Because Inter played better at the beginning, won more games and completed the table to fourth place, the Milanese took more money in the phase than PSG, which was only 15. The K.-O. round with successes in eighth, quarter and semi-finals then washed up 57 million euros in each other.
There are also proportionate special payments from a large pot in which approximately TV money of the respective countries flow. Because French channels pay more than Italian, PSG received a larger share than Inter.
The participating clubs in the premier class and the Supercup conceded 2.467 billion euros this season. Despite the field enlarged from 32 to 36 royal class participants, the income increased on average. In the previous year, a total of 2.002 billion euros had been distributed to the 32 Champions League participants.