Very much becoming the billionaires’ playground of football, Premier League prize money guarantees teams will net at least £100 million just for playing 38 games.
A huge commercial push over the decades, mighty broadcasting deals, and an emphasis on revenue sharing have enabled teams to make even the most seemingly financially bonkers approaches to the transfer market potentially worthwhile.
With the 2025/26 Premier League season underway, clubs stand to earn an even heftier sum thanks to the new record £6.7 billion domestic TV deal. So, here’s a look at what we know about Premier League prize money.
How Much Prize Money Does the Premier League Winner Get?
The amount of Premier League prize money that the winners get changes each year: the figure often sees an increase from one season to the next.
In the most recent release of payments information, it was shown that the champions, Liverpool, received £174.9 million. Some £53.1 million of that sum was paid in merit – based on the team’s final position in the table.
The Premier League betting favourites can hope to get a significantly increased final payout on the next-best. Last season, the gap was £3.4 million between first and second. Between first and last, that gap grows to £65.7 million.
How is Premier League Prize Money Calculated?
The prize money Premier League clubs earn each season is calculated as a mix of even revenue sharing, merit payments, and facility fees.
The formula concocted by the league indicates that, from broadcast rights, clubs receive 50 per cent divided equally, 25 per cent determined by final league positions, and 25 per cent as facilities fees for hosting TV broadcasts.
Clubs also get an even share of international broadcast revenues, commercial revenues, and an additional merit-based payment that’s also drawn from international income.
The most recent TV prize money figures published by the Premier League set the gap between the league winners and 20th at £50.5 million, from £53.1 million for winning to £2.6 million for finishing rock bottom.
As a result, clubs can’t rely on a set income from the league each season, making strategic recruitment strategies like that of Brighton & Hove Albion all the more impressive for their flexibility.
How Much is Broadcast Revenue Worth to Premier League Clubs?
In the most recently released figures, broadcast revenue was worth £89 million to each Premier League club. Despite that the number of live games shown for each team domestically ranged from ten to 30, each gets an even split.
Of the £89 million accrued from TV rights, £29.8 million in 2024/25 came via UK broadcasters, while the other £59.2 million was funded by the many international TV deals the league has struck.
It just goes to prove the benefits of the Premier League being such a welcoming league to people from all around the world, from the strong contingent of Africans to drawing in the greatest American players.
In 2025/26, however, a new domestic broadcast deal kicked in. This massively increased the number of live games to be shown across two broadcasters to 270 games, bumping the fee from £5 billion to £6.7 billion.
Does Premier League Prize Money Increase for Teams in European Competitions?
Winning the Premier League isn’t the be-all and end-all for most clubs, with the increased prize money on offer for securing a European spot being tantalising enough.
In terms of Premier League prize money, the roughly top seven places that end up in European competitions range from collecting at least £175 million to over £150 million. Eighth place gets around £8-£10 million less than seventh.
So, the Premier League doesn’t add much more money for clubs that qualify for European competitions.
Instead, those teams can expect to collect hefty participation payouts from UEFA based on how far they progress in their tournaments.
Premier League prize money is far more evenly delivered. Those expected to go far by the sports betting odds in Europe can expect to land progressively larger sums for their efforts.
How Much Premier League Prize Money do Relegated Clubs Get?
Premier League clubs that get relegated have totalled between £105 million and £120 million in prize money directly from the league for their efforts in one season.
However, relegated clubs will then get to benefit from parachute payments. Over the following three years, to enable financial stability after the shock of getting relegated, clubs get paid 55 per cent of would-be TV money.
Going off of the 2024/25 figures reported, this would give a club that was most recently relegated 55 per cent of the £89 million in TV money, amounting to £48.95 million.
That’s just for the first season after going down. Over the next two seasons, a demoted club can expect another payout equating to around a 45 per cent payout and another in the region of 20 per cent.
If a relegated club goes back up to the Premier League before those three years are up, the parachute payments will end, and what was put to one side for their payments goes back into the total Premier League prize pool.
Complete List of Premier League Prize Money
Whether a club features a legendary Premier League top scorer or will be battling against relegation, they’re guaranteed to get at least £109 million regardless of where they land in the table.
The figures for the 2025/26 payments to clubs are yet to be released by the Premier League. So, here’s the complete list of Premier League prize money from last season, with these figures expected to rise in 2025/26.
- Liverpool - £174.9m
- Arsenal - £171.5m
- Manchester City - £165.5m
- Chelsea - £163.7m
- Newcastle United - £160.2m
- Aston Villa - £159.3m
- Nottingham Forest - £152.5m
- Brighton & Hove Albion - £145.1m
- AFC Bournemouth - £143.4m
- Brentford - £138.9m
- Fulham - £135.5m
- Crystal Palace - £136.1m
- Everton - £131.8m
- West Ham United - £130.9m
- Manchester United - £136.2m
- Wolverhampton Wanderers - £123.1m
- Tottenham Hotspur - £127.8m
- Leicester City - £116.9m
- Ipswich Town - £111.1m
- Southampton - £109.2m
*Credit for the main photo belongs to Alamy*
