Britain's football Premier League just revealed that Chelsea will receive £98.9 million ($152 million) out of the income generated from the sale of central broadcasting rights (
It is perhaps unsurprising considering it won the Premier League title this year.
When the Premier League announced its payments to clubs for the 2014/15 season, it added that Manchester City will receive £98.5 million ($151.3 million) and Arsenal will get £96.5 million ($148.2 million).
Here is the full list:
Premier League Revenue sharing chart.
The Premier League distributes the revenue in the following ways:
- 50% of UK broadcast revenue split equally between the 20 clubs
- 25% of UK broadcast revenue paid in Merit Payments ("Prize Money" per place in the table)
- 25% of UK broadcast revenue paid in Facility Fees each time a club's matches are broadcast in the UK.
- All international broadcast revenue, and central commercial revenue, is split equally among the 20 clubs.
So, a football team can get a larger slice of the £1.6 billion ($2.5 billion) total in league cash, if a team was shown on TV more. For example, Manchester United was the third largest earning football team with £96.8 million ($148 million), despite placing fourth in the Premier League, because they were live on TV more than Arsenal.