UEFA is allocating nearly CHF59m (€40.1m) in UEFA Champions League solidarity payments to the top leagues of its member associations.
The total amount for the 2001/02 season is more than CHF2m higher than the amount paid out to the leagues the previous season from the revenue from European club football’s most prestigious competition.
Leagues with participants in the Champions League group matches will receive a total of CHF47.2m, compared with CHF45.2m in 2000/01, while leagues without participants in the group stages will receive CHF11.6m (2000/01: CHF11m).
The UEFA Executive Committee has made the payments to the leagues conditional on various criteria. The payments are being made through each country’s national association, which then transfers the full amount to its affiliated league. The league in turn must then distribute the amount to its clubs.
To receive the payments via their league, clubs must run their own youth training programme for all age categories from the age of 12 upwards, and must not have taken part in the Champions League from the first group stage onwards in the 2001/02 season.
UEFA is also asking the competent league bodies to decide if payments should be made to all clubs which are members of the domestic league, such as first and second division clubs, or to top division clubs only.
They must also take a decision on whether each of their clubs should receive the same amount, or whether the payments should be based on quality-related criteria. In addition, the leagues must decide whether rules should be issued in their country to ensure that the money is used for purposes suggested by UEFA.
UEFA Champions League, season 2001/02 solidarity payment,
Amounts to leagues with participants:
Association – CHF
Germany – 8,432,000
Italy – 7,302,000
France – 7,035,000
England – 6,418,000
Spain – 6,264,000
Netherlands – 1,925,000
Scotland – 1,433,000
Portugal – 1,419,000
Turkey – 1,241,000
Greece – 1,330,000
Belgium – 1,012,000
Norway – 925,000
Russia – 889,000
Czech Republic – 783,000
Ukraine – 751,000
TOTAL: 47,200,000
UEFA Champions League, season 2001/02 solidarity payment, Amounts to leagues without participants:
Association – CHF
Austria – 729,500
Switzerland – 525,100
Poland – 483,100
Sweden – 442,800
Denmark – 442,800
Republic of Ireland – 356,800
Finland – 356,800
Hungary – 338,800
Israel – 338,800
Romania – 317,800
Bulgaria – 308,800
Croatia – 305,200
Yugoslavia – 302,800
Cyprus – 297,900
Slovenia – 287,100
Malta – 285,300
Slovakia – 281,700
Bosnia-Herzegovina – 280,500
Georgia – 279,900
Iceland – 279,300
F.Y.R Macedonia – 278,700
Albania – 278,100
Lithuania – 274,500
Belarus – 272,700
Latvia – 272,700
Moldova – 272,700
Estonia – 272,700
Armenia – 272,700
Northern Ireland – 272,700
Wales – 272,700
Faroe Islands – 272,700
Luxembourg – 272,700
Azerbaijan – 272,700
Liechenstein – 272,700
Andorra – 272,700
San Marino – 272,700
TOTAL: 11,617,200
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