West Ham’s Euro earnings are starting to soar
West Ham‘s Euro earnings are starting to soar!
Last night’s victory over Bundesliga outfit Freiburg provided more than a passport into the last 16 in March but boosted the club’s bank balance to £6.83 million after they finished the early stages of the competition top of Group A.
That group stage qualification bonus totalled £3,120,000, Group stage wins were £550,037 x 5 £2,750,185 and winner of group stage took £960,361 .
Home ticket revenue, TV pool money and coefficient bonuses will add millions more with the total prize money in the competition amounting to around €465 million.
The prize money is distributed between all clubs taking part with allocated starting fees and allocated performance fixed-related amounts (€139.5 million).
The remaining 45 per cent is distributed based on the progress of the teams in the competition. with the winner of the competition earning over million and the runner up over €4 million.
Our appearance in the last 16 will mean over £1. 5 million has been added to the earnings.
West Ham sold 146,061 tickets for Europa League group home games at the London Stadium worth around £3m of ticket revenue.
Attendances for each of the games was TSC Backa Topola 41,375, Olympiacos 55,811 with last night’s attendance boosted by a few late tickets sales to 48,876 for the Freiburg match.