CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2024/25
Euphoria and millions! How much money has Barcelona earned after qualifying for the Champions League 24/25 semi-finals?
Published:16/04/2025 - 01:05h
Updated:16/04/2025 - 04:18h
Barcelona to the semi-finals: We analyze the millions they earn from the 2024-2025 Champions League. This sporting success brings with it a significant financial reward under the new competition format.
FC Barcelona has secured its place among the top four teams in Europe in this exciting 2024-2025 edition of the Champions League. Beyond the sporting glory, this qualification for the semi-finals represents a significant financial boost for the club's coffers, especially with the renewed UEFA prize distribution system.
The new Champions League distribution: How do you earn money?
The 2024-2025 season premiered a competition format and, with it, a new model of economic distribution. Income for clubs is now mainly divided into three pillars:
1. Participation Pillar (27.5% of the total): A fixed amount equal for all clubs qualified for the League Phase.
- League Phase Bonus: 18.6 M€
2. Performance Pillar (37.5% of the total): 'Shares' (method used by UEFA to reward the position of each team), bonuses for victories and draws in the League Phase, and fixed amounts for advancing in each knockout round.
- 'Shares' Bonus: 298,146 € each
- Bonus per victory: 2.1 M€
- Bonus per draw: 0.7 M€
- Round of 16 Bonus: 11 M€ (+2 M€ direct qualification)
- Access to Quarter-Finals Bonus: 12.5 M€
- Access to Semi-Finals Bonus: 15 M€
- UCL Runner-up Bonus: 18.5 M€
- UCL Champion Bonus: 25 M€
- European Super Cup Bonus: 4 M€
3. Value Pillar (35% of the total): A new pillar that combines the old 'market pool' (sponsors and TV rights) and the ranking by historical coefficient, based on the individual value of each club (audiences, UEFA coefficient, etc.).
- Market pool: Variable depending on the team
- Historical coefficient: Variable depending on the team
(Figures estimated by UEFA for the 24-25 season for each of these pillars).
The prize for reaching the semi-finals of the 24-25 Champions League
The sporting achievement of qualifying for the semi-finals has a direct economic reward within the performance pillar. For this 2024-2025 season, UEFA has established a specific amount for the teams that reach this penultimate round.
Prize for qualifying for the Semi-Finals: [15 million euros]. This amount is added to everything previously accumulated for participating, for the results in the League Phase and for overcoming the round of 16 and quarter-finals.
Adding the total: How much has Barça earned in the 2024/25 Champions League?
Calculating the exact total is complex without knowing the final breakdown of the value pillar, but we can estimate what has been accumulated by the participation pillars (League Phase), performance pillars (bonuses and shares) and value pillars (market pool and UEFA coefficient) achieved by Barcelona so far:
- Participation in League Phase: 18.6 M€
- Bonus for victories League Phase: 12.6 M€
- Bonus for draws League Phase: 0.7 M€
- 'Shares' Bonus League Phase: 10.4 M€ (35 shares for finishing second)
- Bonus qualification for Round of 16: 11 M€ + 2M€ (for direct qualification)
- Bonus qualification for Quarter-Finals: 12.5 M€
- Bonus qualification for Semi-Finals: 15 M€
- Market pool: 22.44 M€ (may vary)
- UEFA historical coefficient: 11.41 M€
- TOTAL INCOME FC BARCELONA: 116.65 M€
Adding these concepts, in the 2024/25 Champions League FC Barcelona would have already secured an estimated amount of 116.65 million euros just for these three pillars. To this we would have to add the important item corresponding to the champion or runner-up if they finally manage to reach the Munich final.
Barça smiles in sports and economics
FC Barcelona celebrates twice. The qualification for the semi-finals of the 2024-2025 Champions League is a resounding sporting success and, at the same time, a crucial economic injection that reinforces the club's finances. With a millionaire sum secured for reaching this round under the new and lucrative UEFA format, the team looks optimistically at both the European title and future planning.
A key boost for FC Barcelona's objectives. This qualification for the semi-finals not only brings Barça closer to the dream of lifting the 'Orejona', but also provides vital funds for financial stability and sports planning for the next season. Exceeding revenue forecasts in the Champions League is always excellent news for the blaugrana board.
