CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2024/25
FC Barcelona: How much money has it earned in the Champions League 2024/25?
Published New:7/05/2025 - 04:14h
Updated New:7/05/2025 - 05:00h
Discover how much money Barça has earned for reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League 24-25. We analyze in detail the income and impact of this great sporting and economic achievement for the Blaugrana club.
FC Barcelona, despite being eliminated against Inter (7-6) in the Champions League, will close the season as one of the four best teams in Europe. Beyond sporting glory, having reached the Champions League semi-finals represents a very important financial boost for the club's coffers.
The new UEFA economic distribution: How and how much money is earned in the Champions League?
In the 2024-2025 season, UEFA premiered a new competition format in the Champions League and, with it, a new model of economic distribution. Income for clubs is now mainly divided into three pillars:
1. Participation pillar (27.5% of the total)
An equal fixed amount for all 36 clubs qualified for the League Phase of the Champions League valued at almost 19 million euros.
- League Phase Bonus: €18.6M
2. Performance pillar (37.5% of the total)
The 'Shares' (method used by UEFA to reward the position of each team), is made up of a bonus for victories and draws in the League Phase, and fixed amounts for advancing in each knockout round of the competition.
- 'Shares' Bonus: €298,146 each
- Bonus for victories: €2.1M
- Bonus for draws: €0.7M
- Round of 16 bonus: €11M (+€2M direct qualification)
- Access to quarter-finals bonus: €12.5M
- Access to semi-finals bonus: €15M
- UCL runner-up bonus: €18.5M
- UCL champion bonus: €25M
- European Super Cup Bonus: €4M
3. Value pillar (35% of the total)
The "Value" is a new pillar that combines the old 'market pool' (sponsors and TV rights) and the ranking by historical coefficient, based on the individual value of each club based on audiences, UEFA coefficients, etc...
- Market pool: Variable according to the results of each team
- Historical coefficient: Variable according to the results of each team
*(Figures estimated by UEFA for the 24-25 season for each of these pillars).
The prize for reaching the semi-finals of the 24-25 Champions League
The sporting achievement of qualifying for the semi-finals has a direct economic reward within the performance pillar. For this 2024-2025 season, UEFA has established a specific amount for the teams that reach this penultimate round.
- Prize for qualifying for Semi-finals: [15 million euros]
This amount is added to everything previously accumulated for participating, for the results in the League Phase and for passing the round of 16 and quarter-finals.
Adding all the items... How much money has Barça earned in the 2024/25 Champions League?
Calculating the exact figure of the total income obtained by Fútbol Club Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 without knowing the final breakdown of the "Value Pillar" is complex. However, we can calculate the estimated income in the rest of the concepts.
These are the amounts obtained by Barça in the "Participation Pillars" of the League Phase, the "Performance Pillars" with their corresponding "Bonuses and Shares", and the "Value Pillars", composed of the "Market Pool" and the "UEFA Coefficient":
- Participation in League Phase: €18.6M
- Bonus for League Phase victories: €12.6M
- Bonus for League Phase draws: €0.7M
- 'Shares' Bonus League Phase: €10.4M (35 shares for finishing second)
- Qualification bonus for Round of 16: €11M + €2M (for direct qualification)
- Qualification bonus for Quarter Finals: €12.5M
- Qualification bonus for Semi-finals: €15M
- Market pool: €22.44M (may vary)
- UEFA historical coefficient: €11.41M
TOTAL INCOME OF FC BARCELONA: €116.65M
Adding these concepts, in the 2024/25 Champions League FC Barcelona would have already secured an estimated amount of 116.65 million euros for these three pillars.
Barça 2024/25 smiles in sporting and economic terms
Despite not achieving qualification for the Champions League final, the 2024-2025 season is a resounding sporting success and, at the same time, a crucial economic injection that reinforces the club's finances.
With a millionaire sum secured for reaching this round under the new and lucrative UEFA format, the Blaugrana team looks optimistically at both the league title, which could fall in the clásico against Real Madrid, as well as the future planning of the squad.
A key boost for FC Barcelona's objectives. The excellent sporting results provide vital funds for financial stability and sports planning for the next season and, exceeding revenue forecasts in the Champions League is always excellent news for the Blaugrana board.
