Real Madrid earn most UEFA prize money with $146m in 2022

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. (AFP)
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Updated 05 April 2023
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Real Madrid earn most UEFA prize money with $146m in 2022

  • Chelsea were eliminated by Madrid in the quarterfinals and earned €91.9 million ($100.6 million)

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).

Paris Saint-Germain’s loss to Madrid in the round of 16 meant they were paid just €92 million ($100.7 million) by UEFA.

UEFA said the 32 group-stage clubs were paid an average of €61.8 million ($67.7 million) with the lowest payment 23.7 million euros ($26 million) to Moldovan champion Sheriff.

Chelsea were eliminated by Madrid in the quarterfinals and earned €91.9 million ($100.6 million). Chelsea face Madrid again in the quarterfinals this month and risks having no income from UEFA next season while it stands 11th in the English Premier League table.

Barcelona earned €64.6 million ($70.7 million) from the Champions League group stage last season, then an additional 6.4 million euros ($7 million) from switching across to the Europa League knockout rounds. Barcelona lost in the quarterfinals to eventual winners Eintracht Frankfurt.

Frankfurt topped the Europa League payments with €38 million ($41.6 million) and beaten finalist Rangers got €20.7 million ($22.7 million). UEFA shared €235 million ($257 million) in total to clubs paying in the inaugural third-tier Europa Conference League. Title-winning Roma’s €19.2 million ($21 million) was the most any club received.

The 2021-22 season was the first in a new three-year commercial cycle for UEFA club competitions ahead of a revamp and expansion in 2024. Teams will play more games in a single standings table — eight for each of 36 teams in the Champions League — which will replace the traditional group stage.

UEFA is making total deductions from clubs of about €83 million ($91 million) per season to cover rebates to commercial partners for disruption during the pandemic-affected 2019-20 season.


Bayern demolishes Wolfsburg 8-1 to go 11 points clear in Bundesliga

Updated 12 January 2026
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Bayern demolishes Wolfsburg 8-1 to go 11 points clear in Bundesliga

  • Bayern hasn’t lost a Bundesliga game since March and remains the only unbeaten team in any of Europe’s five biggest leagues

Michael Olize scored twice as Bayern Munich started the new year by routing Wolfsburg 8-1 with six second-half goals to move 11 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.
Olize, Harry Kane and Luis Díaz picked apart the Wolfsburg defense on Sunday in a display of dominance which leaves Bayern firmly on course to defend the title in only the 16th game of the 34-game season.
Bayern coach Vincent Kompany was pleased his players didn’t let up.
“It’s these moments where it’s five, six, 7-1, and they keep running, they keep pressing and keep trying to score goals,” he told broadcaster DAZN. “I have to say, I like that.”
In freezing temperatures for Bayern’s first game since the winter break, Olize got a brace and Kane and Díaz one apiece, along with goals for substitutes Raphael Guerreiro and Leon Goretzka, and two Wolfsburg own-goals.
Bayern only had two nervous moments all game. The first was Dzenan Pejcinovic’s goal for Wolfsburg in the 13th, which leveled the score at 1-1 after right back Konrad Laimer missed an interception.
The other was a brief injury scare for Kane, who needed treatment after being caught on the ankle by defender Moritz Jenz midway through the first half but was soon back in action.
It was Bayern’s biggest margin of victory in a Bundesliga game since Kompany took over ahead of the 2024-25 season. His team has scored a remarkable 63 goals in 16 league games this season, nearly four per game, and conceded only 12.
Bayern hasn’t lost a Bundesliga game since March and remains the only unbeaten team in any of Europe’s five biggest leagues. Wolfsburg is 14th, three points above the relegation zone, as a troubled season hits a new low.
Bayern’s closest rivals all had difficulties this weekend as second-place Borussia Dortmund drew 3-3 with Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer Leverkusen lost 4-1 to Stuttgart and Leipzig’s game was postponed due to snow.
Wolfsburg’s American midfielder Kevin Paredes entered in the 77th minute, his first match this season after recovering from foot surgery in August.
Also Sunday, United States full back Joe Scally scored his first goal since 2023 as Borussia Moenchengladbach beat Augsburg 4-0. Gladbach moved up two places to 10th after winning at home for only the second time this season.