Under threat of losing European competition places, Brighton, Toulouse and Aston Villa were cleared Friday by UEFA to play next season despite their owners having ties to other clubs that qualified, including AC Milan.
Under threat of losing European competition places, Brighton, Toulouse and Aston Villa were cleared Friday by UEFA to play next season despite their owners having ties to other clubs that qualified, including AC Milan.
Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has revealed that the “New Deal for Football” will result in the Premier League sharing more than 20 per cent of its central income.
The Premier League earns almost £3.5billion a year from its media rights and commercial deals and, while the exact number is hard to pin down, it shares around £500m, or 15 per cent, with the English Football League, various community programmes and organisations such as the Professional Footballers’ Association.
While no other league distributes as much to third parties, the percentage of the total pot the Premier.