Europe's top clubs are set to earn over €100 million following changes to the distribution of Champions League revenue, according to German magazine kicker.
In late August, UEFA announced several changes to the competition would be made from the 2018-19 season onwards. But European football's governing body has yet to make public their plans on how exactly the revenue distribution will change.
In August, UEFA announced that changes will be made to the revenue distribution which will be based on a four pillar system consisting of a starting fee, money from the market pool, money for the performance and for a newly introduced coefficient system also based on past successes in the European cups.
According to a report in kicker, the new revenue distribution could see top clubs earning over €100m per season.
The paper published a simulation for the 2018-19 season, which forecast that the total marketing revenues will rise from €2.35bn at which they currently stand to €3.2 billion for all UEFA competitions, the Champions League, the Europa League and the Super Cup. In the 2015-16 season, €1.3bn will be distributed to UCL participants.
The UEFA club competition committee simulation showed that within the new perimeters the 2016 winners Real Madrid would have earned €135.5m across the campaign.
Kicker claimed that 25 percent of the income will be from the starting fee, 30 percent will come from the actual performance and 15 percent from the market pool, which depends on the individual contracts in each country. The new coefficient, based on the performance in the past five season as well as past triumphs in European competitions makes up for the final 30 percent.
Smaller clubs such as Maccabi Tel Aviv or FC Astana, who both were eliminated during the group stages, would have earned under €20m, compared to Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, who would all have secured more than €100m.
The biggest earners in the 2014-15 season were Juventus, who received a total of €89.1m as they reached the Champions League final last year and also benefited from €58.2m from the national market pool.
Barcelona, the winners in 2015, received €61m and BATE Borisov ended up on the other side of the revenue distribution as they received €12.965m. That season a total of €1.008m was distributed to the 32 group stage participants.
Although the format of the Champions League will remain the same, the top four ranked leagues, currently Spain, England, Germany and Italy, will get four places in the group stages, and the fifth and sixth-placed ranked leagues will get two starting places each.
The following four leagues will have one slot each, and they will be joined by the title holders of Champions League and Europa League. The remaining six starting berths will be allocated to four of the 43 other champions from the other European leagues, and two slots go to non-championship winning teams from the lower-ranked leagues.