March 10, 2023 at 8:20 PM by Dridi Amichi
As every year, UEFA publishes its figures for the past season. If comparison is not right, it is clear that there is a world, even several, between the income that the Women’s Champions League (LdC) brings to a club, and those generated by the male LoC. Champions of the women’s title, OL won a total of 1.46 million eurosin 2021-2022. It is necessarily less for the PSG, according to the data communicated by the European governing body.
More than a million euros for OL and PSG thanks to the Women’s Champions League
The Parisian club, eliminated in the semi-finals of the competition by Olympique Lyonnais, received 1.06 million euros for his career. Of this total amount, 400,000 euros, or almost half, correspond to the participation bonus common to all the teams competing in the competition. It ranks third among the clubs that have earned the most money from the Women’s Champions League. Behind FC Barcelona, unfortunate finalist and its 1.26 million euros, and, logically, the Rhone club, winner once morest the Blaugrana, with 1.46 million euros. Last season, the European governing body paid a total of 18.39 million euros to all the clubs participating in the competition.
PSG gained more by being knocked out in the knockout stages of the Men’s Champions League
For this 2022-2023 season, it will distribute 24 million euros to clubs, an increase of 30.5% compared to the previous year. However, this remains a small amount compared to the Men’s Champions League, where UEFA paid 2.031 billion euros to all participating teams last season. By way of comparison, PSG, whose men’s section was eliminated in the round of 16 by Real Madrid, earned 92.153 million euros for their career. As for OL, where the players played in the Europa League, and came out in the quarter-finals once morest FC Porto, received 17.97 million euros. Equality between female and male footballers is still a very distant goal, if indeed it can ever exist.