GENEVA: Champions League winners Real Madrid earned the most prize money from a European club competition last season with €133.7 million ($146.4 million), UEFA said Wednesday.
Madrid’s total included a basic payment for entering the group stage, results bonuses, a share of Spanish broadcasting rights and an extra payment based on clubs’ historical records in UEFA competitions.
Liverpool lost the final to Madrid and were second in the “prize money table” with a total of €120 million ($131.4 million) from UEFA’s total Champions League prize fund of more than €2 billion ($2.2 billion).
Only two other clubs earned nine-figure sums: Bayern Munich got nearly €110 million ($120.4 million) and Manchester City was paid nearly €109 million ($119 million).