The amount of overseas TV rights money that different clubs receive from the Premier League is based on three things: the team’s performance, the number of times their matches are aired live on domestic television, and equal shares of TV income. Top teams get more TV money, but this season all the clubs will be getting more than ever before, on average £5m more than last season.
The least successful club will be guaranteed at least £37m, while the best one will get almost twice that, or £57m. Even so, the distribution of money is much more equitable than in any of the other major European leagues. In Spain’s La Liga, for example, top clubs earn 19 times more than the smallest clubs, payouts being negotiated on a club-by-club basis.
The Premier League’s payout of approximately £1.2 billion over the next three seasons amounts to about ten times more than German clubs receive, five times more than Italy’s and three times more than clubs in La Liga.
Right now the FA Board is working on its budget for international development, and reports are that they may cut off funds to the poorest African clubs because they feel FIFA is not being recognized as it should for its support of football in general. The Africans seem to feel it’s because no one voted for England in the bidding for the 2018 World Cup.
Boss of the Stoke City club, Tony Pulis, has commented in the past that some of the Premier Leagues clubs spend a ridiculous amount of money on wages, although he added that good luck to players that manage to get the wages if the clubs are willing to pay it out.