£1.2m bonus awaits West Ham in FA Cup replay
West Ham earned £67,500 in prize money for beating Wolves in the third round of the FA Cup but £90,000 prize money awaits the winner of the fourth round between Liverpool and West Ham. Winning a FA Cup fifth round nets £180,000, Sixth Round £360,000, Semi-Final winners get £900,000 each with £1.8m going to the eventual winners of the FA Cup.
The gate money for all FA Cup ties is split 42.5% to each club with 10% to the FA Cup prize fund and 5% to the FA themselves.
Each club gets £144,000 in TV rights for LIVE games shown with £72,000 for LIVE replays and additional money for highlights and radio broadcast fees adding over £15,000 per FA Cup match. From the fifth round TV money goes up to £247,500 per LIVE game shown on the box.
Under FA rules the home club sets the price of the tickets. In the case of a third-round tie and onwards, the minimum price set by the FA is £15. The Anfield tie against Liverpool achieved an attendance of 44,000 at £30 per ticket netting us around £561,00 in gate money. As the game was also featured live on BT Sport we netted another £144,000 for a facility fee plus the highlights and Radio fees making a grand total of £720,000 income for the Hammers for yesterday’s match.
We play the FA Cup replay on Tuesday evening 9th February with tickets priced between £20-£25 per ticket. That game should sell out and net each side around £350,000 in gate money, a likely £72,000 for the TV right plus £15,000 in highlights and radio fees. So a total income around £437,000 for the night.
If we can beat Liverpool a week on Tuesday then our fourth round revenue will top £1.247m, if we get beat by the Reds we will have still bagged £1.15m from the fourth round proper of the cup.