Premier League earns 3 billion pounds before kickoff 0
Each season there will be 20 teams participating in the EPL, television royalties are divided relatively evenly among these clubs.
The English Premier League (EPL) season 2013 – 2014 officially opened today (August 17).
The story in Vietnam is just a small `game` in the English Premier League television copyright game, which takes place every three years between media corporations and television stations around the world.
The `bookmaker` in this copyright game is of course the EPL Organizing Committee, a `business` whose shareholders are the 20 teams participating in the tournament.
To ensure fairness, the organizers will divide EPL into 6 packages, abbreviated from A to F, corresponding to different broadcast times.
With 20 teams, EPL will organize a total of 380 matches per year.
According to Bangkok Post, Cable Thai Holding Plc had to spend more than 190 million pounds to own copyrights in three countries: Thailand, Laos and Cambodia for the 2013 – 2016 football seasons. In Hong Kong (China) and Singapore,
It is the huge revenues mentioned above that have brought huge revenue of more than 3 billion pounds to EPL this season.
Regarding the `dividing` method, it is different from other tournaments in Europe, where each club will sell copyrights individually, leading to high income levels concentrated only on big teams.
Accordingly, 50% of revenue will be divided equally among the clubs, 25% will be reserved for awards based on rankings at the end of the season, and the remaining 25% will be included in the cost of facilities and television of the team.
With this professional way of doing business, according to Deloitte’s rankings, up to 7 EPL representatives are on the list of the 20 richest clubs in the world, while rarely any tournament has more than 4 teams present here.
