1,400,000 million euros. That will be the most a team can win this season in the Women’s Champions League. The main phase of the competition begins this afternoon with the Barcelona as a great favorite to revalidate the title won a few months ago against the Wolfsburg in Eindhoven. The strange format of the tournament has also left him without some important rivals. Only the champions of Spain, England, Germany and France They go directly to the group stage, so during these weeks we have seen how important clubs like our own Wolfsburg or the Arsenalsemi-finalist of the last edition, have been left out in the previous rounds.
Of the total budget of 24 million that UEFA has designated for the competition’s prizes, the champion will get a maximum of 5,8% of the boat. The group stage, made up of 16 teamshas Barcelona and Madrid as Spanish representatives, without a Levante which was also eliminated in the crossroads at the beginning of the season. The blaugranas, with the Ballon d’Or Aitana Bonmatí, with Alexia Putellas and with the best squad in Europe, they are the rival to beat.
The white team, for its part, arrives after a summer in which it has moved little, signing the Danish forward. The evolution of the young woman Linda Caicedo, 18 years old, will mark part of his season. The Colombian was one of the sensations of the last World Cup and she is one of the most promising players on the planet. Besides, Alberto Toril It has footballers who have been vital in the World Cup won by Spain, such as Olga Carmona or Tere Abelleira. The whites, yes, start one step below Barça, Lyon, City or Chelsea.
But let’s talk about money. UEFA has decided to maintain the financial distribution of last season in both the men’s and women’s Champions League. If in the first one it manages a prize budget of more than 2,000 million, in the second the figure remains at 24. If In the men’s competition, the winner takes home 23 million just for winning the finalin the women’s team the achievement of triumphing in the decisive match barely gives 350.000 euros, to which we must add the income received from winning matches in the previous rounds. The 16 teams participating in the group stage receive 400.000 euros and there are bonuses of 50,000 for a victory and 17,000 for a draw. Reaching the quarterfinals means a prize of 160,000 euros, reaching the semifinals 180,000, being runner-up 200,000 and winning 350,000.
To give you an idea, any team in the men’s Champions League receives 15.6 million just for participating in the group stage. It is the forceful logic of the market. Movistar paid 960 million this past summer for maintaining the audiovisual rights of the men’s competition in Spain, while DAZN In 2021, it bought the rights to the Women’s Champions League throughout Europe until 2025 for about 8 million a yearaccording to Bloomberg.