The big names of European football complain more and more often that they are not satisfied with the income from UEFA and its elite competition, they are trying (and they will not give up just like that) to create their own closed competition that would accumulate even more money, but the European House of Football continues to fill their account well. Especially when, like Real Madrid, they ‘parade’ through the first stage of the competition.Los Blancos could have went to Berlin on a tourist trip. Not only did they – before leaving for Germany – secure the passage to the round of 16 of the Champions League, but also the first place in Group C, but Carlo Ancelotti’s squad did the job professionally, managed to reverse the result to 3-2 (0-1) and dispel Union’s dreams of continuing European odyssey in the Europa League.This is the third time in history that the Royal Club have finished with a maximum of 18 points (6/6) in the group stage of the competition. The first time they managed to do so was in the 2011/12 season, when Jose Mourinho was sitting on the bench, while last night Carletto repeated his own feat from the fall of 2014, during his first term at the Santiago Bernabeu.##NAJAVA_MECA_7738443##All six victories gave Real a privileged status in the draw for the round of 16, but there are other benefits as well. The most important one is of course – the money. From the Champions League alone, for the period from 19 September til 12 December 2023, Real managed to recover more than half of the money spent on the transfer of Jude Bellingham?!At the same time, we are not talking about TV rights here, but exclusively about the money that came from UEFA’s premiums and tickets sold for three home games. When all that is added up, the Madridians collected close to 70,000,000 euros.They paid 103,000,000 euros to Borussia Dortmund this summer for the 20-year-old Englishman, without bonuses, so that figure will surely grow a little more. So let’s break it down…- 15,600,000 euros for participation in the group stage- 16,800,000 euros for six wins- 9,600,000 euros for placing in the round of 162011/12 ✅2014/15 ✅2023/24 ✅Real Madrid completed the perfect UCL group stage for just the third time in their history 🤩 pic.twitter.com/U7rt8BvRdI— LiveScore (@livescore) December 13, 2023 That’s the part that can be fact-checked. It is estimated that about 25,000,000 euros have flowed into the Royal Club’s account from tickets and other products at the stadium. It should be borne in mind that the Bernabeu is not yet fully finished and is not working at full capacity…As a reminder, UEFA awards another 10,600,000 euros for reaching the quarter-finals, 12,500,000 for the semi-finals, 15,500,000 for the final, and 20,000,000 euros for the title.When they last won the Champions League, Real announced they collected €133,700,000 from UEFA premiums alone that season (2021/22).
