The Champions helps the future of Real Madrid

Objective accomplished economically. Real Madrid are still five steps away from reaching the Fourteenth, but qualification for the quarterfinals of the Champions League places the Whites in the first flying goal that the club had scored this year in Europe. With the 10.5 of the UEFA prize for reaching the quarters and the part that will correspond to the market pool, Madrid is around 100 million euros in profits (about € 100.68 million, considering a prudent estimate of the market pool) in this edition of the maximum continental competition.

The entity had a budget for this fiscal year 92.5 million in income from friendlies and international competitions. A game that, without an international preseason tour, this year will stick to the manna from the Champions League, where it contemplated, at least, reaching the semifinals. It is not only a relief for the club's coffers, battered by the pandemic, but also a help to undertake signings next summer.

And Real Madrid can still earn more than an additional 30 million that, although by themselves they do not give to undertake a signing of bells, they can give support when it comes to putting up with an extra expense. The current system of distribution of prizes of the Champions irrigates Madrid with 50.7 million euros for the mere fact of participating in the group stage.

The 32 teams in the league each receive a fixed of 15.25 million euros. To this, we must add the part that corresponds to them of the 528 million that are distributed based on the results in the last ten years and the historical record in European competitions. Madrid, with 380 points, is the undisputed leader of that ranking (it takes 62 points from Bayern), so that the whites correspond to 35.45 million of that distribution.

Incomes that could have been even higher

However, the group stage loot has been modest. Of the almost 17.5 million that Madrid would have pocketed with a full of victories, the three victories and the draw achieved in the first phase bring them 9.71 million euros. Each draw is paid at 900,000 euros and victories at 2.7 million plus a small variable from the money that is not distributed in draws (about 237,000 euros for each victory this season).

The double setback against Shakhtar cost Real Madrid almost 5.9 million euros. Bayern and City, for example, have pocketed 15.58 million thanks to their five wins and a draw. In any case, it is still in force in the competition, so it remains to wait to see what fate has in store for it.