Champions League prize money table revealed: Liverpool earnings cover most of Wirtz fee

Arsenal earned almost £100m in prize money by reaching the Champions League semis and being beaten by the eventual dominant European champions.

After dismantling holders Real across two legs, Declan Rice led the charge in the semi-finals against Paris Saint-Germain.

But he was left clinging to ludicrous excuses after a deserved defeat for the Gunners, whose deep run in the Champions League was nevertheless rather lucrative.

As part of the revamped formats for their three main competitions, UEFA announced a new revenue distribution system for how the total prize money of around £2.762billion would be allocated each season up to 2026/27.

More than £2bn (74.38%) will be distributed to clubs competing in the Champions League, £470.5m (17.02%) to teams participating in the Europa League, and £237.3m (8.6%) split between those in the Europa Conference League.

In the Champions League, those pots are further broken down into:

1) Equal shares – a set ‘starting fee’ of £15.5m for all 36 clubs which qualify for the league phase.

2) Performance-related fixed amounts – £1.7m per league phase win, £583,000 per each league phase draw and £230,000 per each league phase position (Young Boys received £230,000 for finishing bottom and Slovan Bratislava made £460,000 in 35th, all the way up in increments to Liverpool being awarded around £8.28m for coming 1st), as well as an extra £1.6m for finishing in the top eight and £830,000 for coming between 9th and 16th; each knockout round is worth another payment too.

3) The ‘value pillar’ – a combination of payments based on a ten-year club coefficient ranking and the broadcast revenue share of all participating countries.

Those three add up to one final payment, which for a few clubs should far exceed £100m.

How much prize money has each Champions League team already earned?

The following is an estimated breakdown of how much prize money each team has already earned from participating in the Champions League in 2024/25, before matchday revenue and other factors are taken into account.

1) PSG – £121.7m (won the sodding thing)

2) Inter – £115.1m (eliminated in the final v PSG)

3) Arsenal – £98.63m (eliminated in the semi-finals v PSG)

4) Barcelona – £98.29m (eliminated in the semi-finals v Inter)

5) Bayern Munich – £89.27m (eliminated in the quarter-finals v Inter)

6) Borussia Dortmund – £86.15m (eliminated in the quarter-finals v Barcelona)

7) Real Madrid – £85.82m (eliminated in the quarter-finals v Arsenal)

8) Liverpool – £82.7m (eliminated in the last 16 v PSG)

9) Bayer Leverkusen – £73.42m (eliminated in the last 16 v Bayern Munich)

10) Atletico Madrid – £71.57m (eliminated in the last 16 v Real Madrid)

11) Aston Villa – £70.56m (eliminated in the quarter-finals v Paris Saint-Germain)

12) Lille – £66.34m (eliminated in the last 16 v Borussia Dortmund)

13) Manchester City – £64.24m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v Real Madrid)

14) Benfica – £60.19m (eliminated in the last 16 v Barcelona)

15) Atalanta – £56.56m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v Club Brugge)

16) Juventus – £55.97m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v PSV)

17) PSV – £55.05m (eliminated in the last 16 v Arsenal)

18) Feyenoord – £54.62m (eliminated in the last 16 v Inter)

19) Milan – £51.76m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v Feyenoord)

20) Club Brugge – £51.34m (eliminated in the last 16 v Aston Villa)

21) Monaco – £50.41m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v Benfica)

22) RB Leipzig – £49.57m (finished 32nd, eliminated in the league phase)

23) Brest – £43.66m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v PSG)

24) Sporting – £41.3m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v Dortmund)

25) Celtic – £38.88m (eliminated in the knockout phase play-offs v Bayern Munich)

26) Stuttgart – £36.25m (finished 26th, eliminated in the league phase)

27) RB Salzburg – £35.82m (finished 34th, eliminated in the league phase)

28) Shakhtar Donetsk – £34.81m (finished 27th, eliminated in the league phase)

29) Dinamo Zagreb – £33.46m (finished 25th, eliminated in the league phase)

30) Bologna – £29.75m (finished 28th, eliminated in the league phase)

31) Crvena vzezda – £26.97m (finished 29th, eliminated in the league phase)

32) Young Boys – £25.46m (finished 36th, eliminated in the league phase)

33) Girona – £25.2m (finished 33rd, eliminated in the league phase)

34) Sparta Prague – £24.02m (finished 31st, eliminated in the league phase)

35) Sturm Graz – £23.6m (finished 30th, eliminated in the league phase)

36) Slovan Bratislava – £18.46m (finished 35th, eliminated in the league phase)

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