The money comes primarily from the Premier
League's huge TV deals but also includes a share of the league's central
commercial income for each club.
Arsenal's money was made up of £23,605,000
'merit' cash for finishing second in the table, £21,496,762 in 'facility fees'
for being in so many live TV games, plus equal shares of the domestic TV deal,
overseas TV deals and commercial income from the league's sponsors, such as
Barclays.
Every club then receives £1,242,405 per finishing
place in the table, from that sum for bottom-placed Aston Villa to £24,848,100
to winners Leicester.
Each club also gets a variable amount depending
on how many times they were shown live on Sky or BT. Every club got a minimum
of £8,782,088 from this pot, even if they were shown as rarely as Watford and
Bournemouth (just eight live televised games each), or Norwich City and Stoke
City (nine times each).
Arsenal were shown live in the UK most, 27 times,
followed by Manchester United (26) then Manchester City (25), Liverpool (23)
and Chelsea (22).
For
2015-16 every club gets an 'equal' share of £55,849,800 derived from domestic
TV income, overseas income and commercial income combined, with specifics in
our graphic.
Clubs
have three main revenue streams: match day income (from tickets, corporate
dining etc), media income (of which the payments announced on Tuesday are the
largest but not the only part) and commercial income (from kit deals,
sponsorship, merchandise, tours and so on).
Sky
and BT Sport paid £3.018billion between them to show Premier League matches
live in the UK across three seasons from 2013 to 2016 inclusive. Foreign
broadcasters around the world paid another £2.23bn combined, on top, for the
same period.
The
prize cash will get bigger in future. The domestic deals will rise from
£3.018bn to £5.136bn in the three-year period from 2016-17, and the foreign
deals will climb from £2.23bn to £3bn-plus.
The
ratio in Premier League earnings between highest earners Arsenal at the top and
Villa at the bottom in 2015-16 is 1.52 to one. This is the lowest ratio in the
history of the Premier League since 1992-93 and a much lower ratio – and
therefore 'fairer' split of TV money – than occurs in Europe's other major
leagues.
In
Spain's top division, where Barcelona and Real Madrid take the lion's share of
the TV cash because they do their own deals and don't sell rights collectively
(yet), the equivalent ratio is around eight to one.
In
Italy's Serie A, the ratio is about five to one, in France's Ligue 1 it is
about 3.5 to one, and in the German Bundesliga it is two to one.
In the
Premier League's first season, 1992-93, the total prize pot was £37.5m.
Manchester United were top earners back then, making £2,413,660. Middlesbrough,
the lowest earners, made £1,063,135.
This
season, £1.81bn has been given in prize money (£1.64bn) and parachute payments
(£172m) combined.
Next
year with the new TV deals kicking in, the club finishing bottom of the Premier
League will make about the same as this season's highest earners Arsenal.
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