Financial benefits for élite sides

English success
The amount represents 75-82 per cent of the total revenue with the clubs receiving payments in proportion to their endeavours in the competition. Champions League winners Porto received €19m while runners-up AS Monaco FC collected €26.4m, with their larger amount due to their higher revenue from the market pool. English clubs fared best with Arsenal FC, Manchester United FC and Chelsea FC all netting more than €26m.

Fixed amounts
The distribution of the revenue generated by UEFA from television rights and sponsorship deals is split among the participating clubs according to fixed amounts including a starting bonus (€1.6m), a match bonus in group matches (€328,000), a performance bonus in group matches (€328,000 per win, €164,000 per draw), a knockout round bonus (€1.64m), a quarter-final bonus (€1.97m), a semi-final bonus (€2.6m) and then €3.9m for the runner-up and €6.6m for the winner.

Market pool
Added to this is the market pool, which is distributed according to the proportional value of each TV market represented by the clubs taking part, and is split among the number of teams participating from a given association. Half of this amount per market is split among the clubs based on their performance in the previous domestic league championship and the other half is paid in proportion to the number of matches played by each team in the season's Champions League.

Grassroots support
In addition UEFA's 52 member associations will benefit financially from the solidarity payments made by UEFA to all associations to support grassroots football, and to those associations of clubs who were knocked out before the group stage of the Champions League, or eliminated in the second round of the UEFA Cup or before.

Full breakdown
A full breakdown of payments made to the associations will be available in the forthcoming edition of uefadirect, UEFA's football family magazine, due out at the end of June.