In numbers, Broadcasting rights generate millions to the pockets of Spanish clubs
The new season of the Spanish Football League kicked off on Friday,
with the Osasuna meeting with Seville, and the first team beat the second 2-1.
Participation in the first division championship in the Spanish Football
League is a great opportunity for clubs to get money in an easy way.
One of the questions that football fans ask is how much money the Spanish
champions get, as well as the money that reaches the rest of the clubs based
on their position in the standings.
In a report, the Spanish sports newspaper, Marca, reviewed the money that
Spanish clubs receive from exclusive television broadcasting rights,
and does not include ticket revenues, subscriptions and sales collected by each
club individually.
A Spanish royal decree stipulates that half of the TV broadcasting rights
distributed equally to all 20 clubs competing in the Spanish League.
For example, in the 2020-2021 Spanish League season, television broadcasting
rights achieved about 1.44 billion euros, about half of which (722 million) will
go to all clubs in the league equally, regardless of their performance.
As for the second half, it is divided into two parts, the first according to the so-called
“social implantation” of each club, and is based on its performance in season tickets
and the rate of box office sales in the last five seasons, and the extent to which each
club contributes to providing resources that can be used in broadcasting.
The second section depends on the team’s position in the rankings, and it constitutes
25 percent of the total revenue provided by television broadcasting.
The winner of the Spanish League gets 17% of this total income, and the rest of
the money from this section goes to the last team and is estimated at 0.25%.
The difference in the money that teams receive in the Spanish League amounted
to about 7 million euros in the 2020-2021 season, but this number decreases
the more we go down the list.
The outcome of the Spanish teams’ gains from this season was as follows,
in terms of millions of dollars:
Atlético Madrid: 17 percent, 61.3 million euros
Real Madrid: 15 percent, 54.1 million euros.
Barcelona: 13 percent, 46.9 million euros.
Seville: 11 percent, 39.7 million euros.
Broadcasting rights generate millions to the pockets of Spanish clubs
