Liverpool may not have won the league title, but they received the biggest pay out from the Premier League because of the number of their games that were screened on television. They got £97.5m compared with £96.5m for title winners Manchester City.
Bottom club Cardiff City received £62m which is 64 per cent of what Liverpool received. It is also £1.2m more than Manchester United received as title winners last year, reflecting the value of the new television contracts.
Liverpool may not have won the league title, but they received the biggest pay out from the Premier League because of the number of their games that were screened on television. They got £97.5m compared with £96.5m for title winners Manchester City.
Bottom club Cardiff City received £62m which is 64 per cent of what Liverpool received. It is also £1.2m more than Manchester United received as title winners last year, reflecting the value of the new television contracts.
It also shows how distorted competition in the Championship is, particularly when parachute payments are added in. A Championship club that is not in receipt of parachute payments gets just £1.7m. However, Cardiff may be better off following a Burnley strategy of not trying to get back in one season.
Foreign television contracts, particularly from Asia but increasingly from the US, are also becoming relatively more important and may even overtake domestic contracts in value one day. They are worth £2.3bn or 76 per cent of the domestic contracts at £3.01bn.