By Reinaldo Oliveros
02 Jun 2024, 10:13 AM EDT
Real Madrid won 2-0 against Borussia Dortmund and won their Champions League number 15. With this victory, the merengue club added a large sum of money in prizes since the group stage.
Madrid obtained more than $80 million in profits in prizes throughout the Champions League.
How are the prizes distributed in the Champions League?
The 32 teams participating in the Champions League receive $16.9 upfront millions of dollars. They also receive $3.03 million dollars for each victory and $1 million dollars for a draw.
With the group stage of four wins and two draws, Real Madrid obtained earnings of $18.2 million dollars in the first stage alone.
After qualifying for the round of 16Madrid got $10.4 million dollars, $11.5 million for the quarterfinals and $13.5 million for the semifinal.
For having reached the 2024 UEFA Champions League final, Real Madrid earned a bonus of $24.7 million dollars and $4.1 million are added from the ties achieved in the knockout stages.
The top winner of the UEFA Champions League earned a total of $82 million in the competition this season.
Although of that $82 millionBorussia Dortmund also benefits due to a clause.
After the sale of Jude Bellingham, one of the clauses in the contract was that if Bellingham won the Champions League at Real Madrid, The Spanish club must pay $27.1 million dollars to the German team.
Real Madrid has won 6 of the last 11 editions of the UEFA Champions League. The players who have won in those six editions with the club are: Nacho, Carvajal and Luka Modric.
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