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Top clubs to get even richer

The top Premier League clubs will get even richer over the next three seasons after it was confirmed that the value of overseas TV rights has far outstripped domestic deals.

Overseas deals from 2025 to 2028 will bring in £6.5billion, a 23 per cent rise on 2022 to 2025. That will result in the Premier League’s total income, including £5million from domestic rights and commercial income, reaching £12.25billion, a 17 per cent uplift.

The revenue figure was confirmed at the Premier League shareholders’ meeting, during which clubs signed off another increased-value overseas TV deal for countries in southeast Asia and the Pacific region.

It should result in the club that finishes top earning about £25million more a season, with the distribution then on a sliding scale down to an extra £9million for the club finishing bottom, meaning that in TV money alone the champions could earn £200million.

Under a change to the financial distribution rules brought into the Premier League in 2019, the top clubs benefit most. Half the money from any increase in total overseas rights is now distributed according to where a club finishes in the league table. There is a maximum limit that prevents the top club from earning more than 1.8 times the sum the bottom club receives in Premier League TV money.

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