Region’s clubs share £266m in TV revenue haul
THE North West’s five Premier League football teams earned a total of £266.1m from domestic and international TV revenues.
Champions Manchester United led the way nationally as well as regionally and received £60.8m. Runners-up and last year’s title winner Manchester City earned £58.1m.
Although Everton finished ahead of Liverpool, the club received more than £3m less, with £51.7m, compared with Liverpool’s haul of £54.8m, as a result of their matches being televised less often than their rivals.
Dave Whelan’s Wigan Athletic, which was relegated last week three days after winning its first major trophy, the FA Cup, earned £40.7m, the Premier League revealed.
The league rules are that 50% of UK broadcast revenue is split equally between the 20 clubs, 25% is paid in merit payments (depending on where a club finishes in the final table), and the final 25% is paid in facility fees each time a club’s matches are on TV in the UK.
All international broadcast revenue is split equally amongst the 20 clubs – meaning that all received the same sum – £18.9m in the season just ended.
Television income will climb further next season after BT entered the market, taking a share of live rights alongside pay TV operator BSkyB.
The Premier League has also secured enhanced overseas rights deals and revenue from television is expected to rise to around £5.5bn over the next three years, from around £3bn.
