Mwhile the Villarreal hopes to take off in the league after a start to the season in which it is not meeting the expectations generated, the La Plana team consoles itself with its good performance in Champions League. A performance that, for now, is already providing a good economic return to the club’s coffers and that, if the necessary combinations occur tonight, it would raise the profits to 45 million euros. Much more than what a title like the Europa League generated last season.
With the victory achieved on the last day of the Champions League against Young Boys Villarreal already reaches 22 million euros in prizes for sporting merits. An amount that he has achieved thanks to his two victories against the Swiss and the draw in the opening match against Atalanta. And it should be remembered that the victory is paid at 2.8 million and the tie at 930,000 euros to add a total of 6.5 million to date. To this figure we must add another of 15.6 million for the fact of participating in the group stage. In this way, the people of Castellón now exceed 22 million euros with two days to go, amount similar to that for sports awards the European title brought him last season.
But the gain can be much greater for the yellow team if it is able to make good its current situation (group co-leader) and reach the round of 16. In this way I would add 9.6 million euros more, regardless of what he would enter for the points he can get in these last two days, which would be at least the 2.8 million he would get for his victory against the “red devils” this same day.
Market Pool and distribution by UEFA coefficients
Apart from these 34 million (at least) in sports awards, what Villarreal already has insured is a significant amount for the concepts of Market Pool and distribution by UEFA coefficients. In this last aspect, the last 10 years are taken into account. The team with the lowest coefficient will receive 1.14 million and the one with the highest (Real Madrid) 36.38. Villarreal, thanks to the accolade brought about by the triumph in the Europa League, occupies the twentieth position in the European ranking with 63,000 points, although teams like Roma or Tottenham, who precede them, do not participate in this edition. The amount could be between 10 and 15 million to which the final pinch of the market pool would have to be added.
