Revealed: West Ham on course for £17m windfall – £12m already in the bank
West Ham are on course to earn as much as £17million in the Europa Conference League this season, Football Insider analysis shows.
David Moyes’ side are struggling domestically but are now in the semi-final of a European competition for the second successive year.
A 4-1 win over Gent on Thursday (20 April) sealed a 5-2 win on aggregate and passage to the last four of the Conference League.
Around £3.1billion is distributed by Uefa across its three club competitions, with £208m of that going to teams in the Conference League, which began in 2021-22.
Each participant gets a £2.6m starting fee, with extra cash allotted in accordance with clubs’ 10-year coefficients and the wider market pool.
The market pool for UK clubs – which is calculated with reference to each country’s respective Uefa TV deal – is believed to be worth in the region of £3.4m this season.
There are, by this site’s calculations, 10 Conference League teams higher in the 10-year coefficient rankings than the Hammers – Fiorentina, Anderlecht, Villareal, Partizan Belgrade, AZ Alkmaar, Dnipro, Slavia Prague, Basel and Gent.
That means the East Londoners will trouser around £622,000 from that particular pot.
West Ham were the only team with a 100 per cent record in group stages, and with each win worth £497,000, that means they picked up almost £3m in prize money before the knockout rounds.
The Hammers have since convincingly navigated round-of-16 and quarter-final ties against AEK Larnaca and now Gent, worth £531,000 and £880,000 respectively.
Another £1.8m is allotted for teams who reach the semi-final, where they will face AZ Alkmaar in the first leg on 11 May.
The losing finalist receives £2.7m, while the winner banks £4.4m.
That makes the total amount available to West Ham this year £17.24m, with £12.24m of that figure already in the bank.
That is still some way short of the £32.1m they earned during their run to the Europa League semi-finals last term, but it will be welcomed by the club’s bean counters all the same.
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