If Leicester City were to win the Premier League they will pocket as much as £93 million in premier league prize money compared to £71.6m they earned last year. Below is the detailed information about how the Premier League prize money fund is distributed among 20 teams with precisely predicted table.
Updated: Prize Money table for 2016-17 (as the new TV deal kicks is)
The prize money awarded to Premier League clubs is generated from the broadcasting rights sale and this will be the last year of 2013-16 (3 year) tv rights deal which is worth around £5.178 Billion in total if we combine both domestic and overseas tv deals. Premier League has already signed the next 3 year deal starting from 2016-17 season to 2018-19 worth around £8 billion for three years (here is an in-depth article in Premier League 2016-19 tv rights deal)
But since the current deal is still active for this season we take a look at how the clubs are going to get paid and what sharing model premier league uses to distribute tv rights money. A prize money fund is produced from the domestic and overseas tv rights deal and here is how it is distributed.
Permier League 2015-2016 Prize Money Breakdown: (Confirmed)
Premier League usually confirme the prize money distribution after the season is over but they have already reveal the types of payments and the sharing model.
Equal tv rights share to every clubs will be around £55.5 million (£28.57 million from overseas portion and £21.96 million for domestic + £4.79 with central commercial share) – Confirmed
Merit money starts with £1,236,083 for the 20th place and £1,236,083 will be added to each position rising up the table. (which means champions will pocket £24.7 million in merit based money) – Confirmed
Facility fee depend on how many times clubs match is shown live on tv in UK, If a club has 10 or less live matches they will be paid £8.75 million lump sum. while Manchester United matches will be shown live the most number of times in UK with total 26 live games which means they will get £875,000 for every live match and that’s £21m. While Leicester City who are currently top will only have 15 live matches earning them £12.8m (Confirmed)
Below table shows how the premier league tv rights funds distributed among the 20 teams in premier league.
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| NO# | CLUB | EQUAL SHARE | MERIT BASED | FACILITY FEE | TOTAL |
| 1 | Leicester City |
£55.5m | £24.7m | £12.8m (15 matches) | £93m |
| 2 | Arsenal | £55.5m | £23.5m | £21.8m (27 matches) | £100.8m |
| 3 | Tottenham | £55.5m | £22.2m | £17.3m (21 matches) | £95m |
| 4 | Man City |
£55.5m | £21m | £20.3m (25 matches) | £96.8m |
| 5 | Manchester United* |
£55.5m | £19.8m | £21m (26 matches) | £96.3m |
| 6 | Southampton | £55.5m | £18.5m | £10.5m (12 matches) | £84.5m |
| 7 | West Ham | £55.5m | £17.3m | £12.8m (15 matches) | £85.6m |
| 8 | Liverpool | £55.5m | £16.1m | £18.8m (23 matches) | £90.4m |
| 9 | Stoke City |
£55.5m | £14.8m | £8.75m (8 matches) | £79m |
| 10 | Chelsea | £55.5m | £13.6m | £18m (22 matches) | £87.1m |
| 11 | Everton | £55.5m | £12.4m | £15m (18 matches) | £82.9m |
| 12 | Swansea City | £55.5m | £11.1m | £8.75m (10 matches) | £75.3m |
| 13 | Watford | £55.5m | £9.9m | £8.75m (8 matches) | £74.1m |
| 14 | West Brom | £55.5m | £8.7m | £8.75m (8 matches) | £73m |
| 15 | Crystal Palace | £55.5m | £7.4m | £9.5m (11 matches) | £72.4m |
| 16 | Bournemouth | £55.5m | £6.2m | £8.75m (9 matches) | £70.4m |
| 17 | Sunderland | £55.5m | £4.9m | £11.3m (13 matches) | £71.7m |
| 18 | Newcastle Utd | £55.5m | £3.7m | £13.5m (16 matches) | £72.7m |
| 19 | Norwich City | £55.5m | £2.5m | £8.75m (8 matches) | £66.7m |
| 20 | Aston Villa |
£55.5m | £1.236m | £9.5m (11 matches) | £66.2m |
How Premier League TV Rights Money Distribution Among 20 Clubs:
The total money from 3 year deal of both domestic and overseas is divided into three parts, one part for each of the three seasons the deal is active for. So the total money from current domestic (£3.196 billion) and oversees (£2 billion) three year deal (2013-16) is around £5.19 billion, the total tv money is than spread equally into three seasons which is around £1.73 billion and that makes the yearly prize money fund.
Premier League 2015-16 Prize Money Fund:
The yearly prize money fund comes in two portions. 1) Domestic TV Rights Money. 2) Oversees TV Rights Money.
| DOMESTIC TV MONEY | OVERSEES TV MONEY |
| 50% is shared equally | 100% shared equally |
| 25% is merit money (starts with £1.23 million for 20th placed club and rises £1.23 million with every position all the way to top where champions will get £24.7 million) | |
| 25% is facility fee (Its the facility fee (£875,000) provided each time clubs match is shown live on tv in UK or £8.75 million for whole season which ever is higher. |
Below is the confirmed prize money breakdown from 2014-15 season where Chelsea won the league accumulated around £98.99 million while bottom side QPR earned £64.8 million.
| NO# | CLUB | EQUAL SHARE | MERIT BASED | FACILITY FEE | TOTAL |
| 1 | Chelsea | £54.1m | £24.7m | £19.98m (25 matches) | £98.99m |
| 2 | Man City | £54.1m | £23.5m | £20.72m (26 matches) | £98.5m |
| 3 | Arsenal | £54.1m | £22.2m | £19.98m (25 matches) | £96.5m |
| 4 | Manchester United | £54.1m | £21m | £21.47m (27 matches) | £96.75m |
| 5 | Tottenham | £54.1m | £19.8m | £14.75m (18 matches) | £88.7m |
| 6 | Liverpool | £54.1m | £18.5m | £19.98m (25 matches) | £92.7m |
| 7 | Southampton | £54.1m | £17.3m | £11m (13 matches) | £82.5m |
| 8 | Swansea City | £54.1m | £16.1m | £10.2m (12 matches) | £80.5m |
| 9 | Stoke City | £54.1m | £14.8m | £8.75m (9 matches) | £77.8m |
| 10 | Crystal Palace | £54.1m | £13.6m | £9.5m (11 matches) | £77.35m |
| 11 | Everton | £54.1m | £12.4m | £14m (17 matches) | £77.65m |
| 12 | West Ham | £54.1m | £11.1m | £11m (13 matches) | £76.33m |
| 13 | West Brom | £54.1m | £9.9m | £8.75m (10 matches) | £72.8m |
| 14 | Leicester City | £54.1m | £8.7m | £8.75m (8 matches) | £71.6m |
| 15 | Newcastle United | £54.1m | £7.4m | £16.2m (20 matches) | £77.8m |
| 16 | Sunderland | £54.1m | £6.2m | £9.52m (11 matches) | £69.8m |
| 17 | Aston Villa | £54.1m | £4.9m | £9.52m (11 matches) | £68.6m |
| 18 | Hull City | £54.1m | £3.7m | £8.75m (8 matches) | £66.6m |
| 19 | Burnley | £54.1m | £2.5m | £8.75m (8 matches) | £65.3m |
| 20 | QPR | £54.1m | £1.236m | £9.52m (11 matches) | £64.8m |
Your figure for the Man U facility fee doesn’t add up. You mentioned 19.5 for 26 matches put you allotted 20.25 to them.
check properly city have 26 matches shown, and they have 20.72mll.
Oversees TV Money???????
26 * 875,000 = 22,750,000 not 21,800,000. Small error but I would not mind the difference just for some pocket money.
Too much money for too little football
Burnley should get 100 million for the amount of games on TV.