Along with prestige, unsurprisingly, come huge monetary benefits, which only increase as teams progress through the competition.
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Last season, Hansi Flick’s team reached the semi-finals of the tournament and was just a few minutes away from reaching the final.
Needless to say, they earned a hefty salary for the same, details of which will be presented at the Ordinary UEFA Congress early next month.
Fourth with highest income
As transmitted by Sports World In a recent update, Barcelona were the fourth highest earners in the UEFA Champions League last season and only the other three semi-finalists earned higher salaries than them.
In total, the Catalans took home a sum of €116,562,000 from the event last season, €436,000 less than Arsenal, who come in third place with a check of €116,998,000.
Barcelona lost to Inter Milan in last season’s UCL semi-final. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)
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Defeated finalists Inter Milan are in second place with accumulated earnings of 136,620,000 euros and champion PSG took home the largest sum of 144,415,000 euros.
The report also details the details of how Barcelona’s pay and bonuses were calculated at each stage of how they were earned.
Barcelona earned 18,620,000 euros by merely qualifying for the league phase of the competition and received an additional 33,855,000 euros from the value pillar assigned to the club by UEFA.
During the league phase of the competition, the Catalans added another €13,962,000 to their pockets and also earned €11,625,000 towards their final qualification at the end of the league phase.
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The prizes from the tie made up the rest of the payment, and qualifying for the round of 16 earned them €11,000,000. Qualifying for the quarterfinals totaled €12,500,000, and the semifinal another €15,000,000.