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Bottom Three Clubs To Get £100m Boost Even If Relegated From The Premier League

Norwich set to make minimum of £102,448,460 this season
Bottom teams would gain a further £100,000,000+ next year if this season is voided
Breakdown of Premier League financial payouts to clubs revealed by OLBG study

The bottom three Premier League teams all stand to gain £100,000,000 from broadcast partners even if relegated, a new study has revealed.

With the impact of coronavirus severely affecting the remainder of the league season and raising doubts over whether the league standings should be honoured, there have been calls to void promotion and relegation to the English top flight.

Relegation-threatened clubs such as West Ham, Norwich and Brighton have called for relegation to be scrapped - thus securing a massive pay-off in TV revenue next season - and OLBG’s study Fans of the EPL has revealed how much money could be paid out if the season were to end right now.

The 2019/20 season started a three-year cycle rights cycle with broadcast partners, taking overall payouts up by around £160,000,000 to a total of £2.6 billion a year - with each club guaranteed a nine-figure payout at the end of each season.

Fans of the EPL has previously analysed the broadcast payment trends in the Premier League over the past 10 years to show the average fee received by each club in the top flight, and has now calculated how much money is set to be paid out for the current season if called to a premature finish.

The three teams currently in the bottom three of the table - Norwich, Aston Villa and Bournemouth - would make £102,448,460, £106,668,583 and £106,565,654 respectively from the broadcast deal just this season alone, and if they were to be protected against relegation, would gain a further £100,000,000 plus from the Premier League.

With the new overall payout sum, Fans of the EPL has calculated how much money is to be split between the 20 teams equally, how much is to be paid out from international TV and central commercial streams in line with previous years, as well as the merit payments which are decided based on final league standings.

With the 2019/20 season featuring 200 scheduled live matches on TV for the first time and £432,305,368 to be shared out in facility fees (payment based on the amount of times you appear live on TV), each club would receive a massive £1,080,763 per live match - with £2,161,526 to be split between both sides.

Manchester City and Manchester United have both been shown 22 times on TV so far this season meaning they have received £23,776,786 from the deal, while Brighton, Southampton, and Sheffield United would get just £10,807,630 having appeared in 10 live matches.

There have currently been 153 of the 200 matches shown on TV, which means if the season is called to an immediate conclusion, there would be a shortfall of £101,591,722 - with that cash not being paid out to any of the teams involved.

For more information on how the Premier League breaks down the broadcast deal financially, and to see which teams benefit or could be better off, visit https://www.olbg.com/insights/fans-of-the-epl/televised-funding/.