What is the prize money for the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League?

What is the UEFA Champions League prize money 2025-26, total fund, winner share for every round team

UEFA Champions League 2025-26: Group Stage Draw, Teams, Format, and Live Streaming Details

The countdown is over—the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League is officially here. The much-anticipated group stage draw takes place on Thursday, August 28, 2025, where 36 of Europe’s biggest clubs will discover their opponents in the world’s most prestigious club football competition.

This season marks only the second year of the revamped league format, which has already transformed the excitement of the Champions League.

UEFA has allocated 2.47 billion euros ($2.88 billion) in prize money from total commercial revenue of 4.4 billion euros ($5.1 billion) across all its European club competitions this season.

PSG Aim to Defend Their Title

Reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) return with high hopes of defending their crown. After lifting the trophy in the first edition under the new structure, the French giants are determined to prove their dominance once again on Europe’s grandest stage.

Record Six Premier League Clubs Competing

The 2025-26 season also makes history for English football. For the first time, six Premier League clubs have qualified for the Champions League. This includes Tottenham Hotspur, who booked their place by winning last season’s UEFA Europa League, joining the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool in the competition.

What is the prize money for the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League?

Clubs involved in the league phase of the Champions League will have $2.6bn distributed among them.

The winner of the Champions League, along with all other teams, will be rewarded on a game-by-game basis.

Should the eventual champion win all their games throughout the competition, then more than 100 million euros ($116m) can be claimed.

Similarly to the FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA has introduced a series of other payments, making the eventual total difficult to define.

Participation fees, performance bonuses, league phase ranking bonuses, knockout stage payments and a value pillar, which combines payments based on a club’s historical UEFA coefficient ranking and their share of the broadcast market, will all be used to decide overall payments.

Qualifying for the final alone will result in an 18.5-million-euro ($21.5m) reward while the winning finalist will receive an additional 6.5 million euros ($7.5m).

The lowest-ranked team, Kairat, is guaranteed at least 20 million euros ($23 million) from UEFA. High-ranked teams Real Madrid and PSG will get at least 60 million euros ($69 million). Teams earn more for each win and for advancing to the knockout rounds.

How much does the winner of the champions league final earn?

The club that wins the final in this edition will receive a €25 million prize just for winning the match in Berlin. This amount is exclusive to the title win and does not include earnings from previous rounds.

The title winner should receive about 150 million euros ($175 million) in prize money.

What does the uefa champions league runner-up receive?

The runner-up also walks away with a hefty sum: €15 million for reaching the final, plus all earnings from previous rounds. Depending on their path, that figure can climb above €80 million.

2025-25 UEFA Champions League prize money by round breakdown

League Phase (Group Stage)

• Every club gets €18.62 million just for reaching this stage.

• Win a match: €2.1 million.

• Draw a match: €700,000.

Knockout Phase

• Playoff before Round of 16: €1 million.

• Reach Round of 16: €11 million.

• Reach Quarterfinals: €12.5 million.

• Reach Semifinals: €15 million.

• Reach Final: €18.5 million.

• Winner of the Final: extra €6.5 million.
  
  

Ranking Bonus (League Phase Performance)

• Lowest ranked club: €275,000.

• Highest ranked club: up to €9.9 million.

Qualifying Rounds (before league phase)

• Total prize pool: €30 million.

• Clubs eliminated before the league phase: €4.29 million each.

Total Distribution Across Competitions (2025/26)

• Champions League + Super Cup: €2.467 billion (about 74%).

• Europa League: €565 million (about 17%).

• Europa Conference League: €285 million (about 9%).

• Overall money distributed: €3.317 billion.

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