Ranking in the premier class
UEFA source of money is the strongest for FC Bayern
09/07/2022 07:13 am
FC Bayern only starts in the Champions League in the evening, but the German record champions are already a winner. In the UEFA club rankings, according to which the income for the European Cup is measured. This ensures a warm shower of money in Munich.
The source of money in the Champions League is bubbling up for FC Bayern even before the start of the first group game at Inter Milan. The German soccer champion is the Croesus in terms of entry fees among all 32 participating clubs. That’s because of the UEFA club rankings. With 138.00 points, the Munich team has the best coefficient in the ranking for the past five seasons, just ahead of Liverpool FC, Manchester City (both 134.00) and defending champions Real Madrid (124.00).
Bayern have one from the Champions League pot of the European Football Union UEFA, which is filled with around two billion euros, before kick-off in the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium this Wednesday evening (9 p.m. / DAZN and in the ntv.de live ticker). amount of just over 50 million euros. Each of the 32 clubs, including Bayern from the Bundesliga, including Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt, will each receive an entry fee of 15.64 million euros.
In addition, a lot of money is paid out via the coefficient ranking list. The European Cup performance in recent years counts here. The amount depends on how many shares an association receives. One share corresponds to 1.137 million euros. The lowest placed Champions League team gets a share. Bayern, as the first in the rankings, get the top value of 32 shares, i.e. 36.38 million euros.
Leipzig ranks eleventh as the second best German premier class starter and thus receives around 25 million euros. Dortmund comes as number three from the Bundesliga quintet to around 20 million euros. Almost 15 million euros flow to Frankfurt, as Eintracht is in 20th place on points. From now on, every game not only counts for progression in the group stage, but always also for the UEFA coefficient.