Spurs could earn more than Arsenal for being in next season’s Champions League

Arsenal and Tottenham will both compete in the Champions League next season, but Spurs could pocket slightly more cash than their rivals despite finishing well below them in the Premier League

Tottenham may have finished well below Arsenal in the Premier League this season, but they could stand to rake in more than their bitter rivals in the Champions League next year. Spurs endured a season to forget under Ange Postecoglou in the Premier League, finishing in 17th place.

But they made amends for their shocking domestic record by clinching the club’s first major trophy in 17 years in last week’s Europa League final. Their triumph in Bilbao also guarantees Tottenham a spot in the Champions League next season and all the financial benefits that brings.

It also means the Londoners will face the winners of this weekend’s Champions League final in the Uefa Super Cup later in the summer – and that would potentially allow Tottenham to bank more than cash than their domestic rivals.

As outlined by The Sun, all six English teams who have qualified for the Champions League will earn a ‘starting bonus’ of £15.72million as per the terms of the cash model Uefa employed last season.

The total sum earned by each club is divided up based on European performances over the last five to 10 years and size of the respective nation’s TV contract.

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England’s contract, which includes a £305m agreement with TNT Sports, is second only to France’s coverage which is worth an estimated £411m-a-year.

City are ranked highest of the English clubs in the five-year coefficient table and therefore stand to earn the biggest share of the ‘European’ portion of the finances on offer, plus the third largest slice of the ‘non European’ pot. In total, they stand to pocket ££53.13m.

Arsenal are fourth in the earnings list with a sum of £47.86m. But although Tottenham are below them, they could end up earning more; this is partly because they will earn a further guaranteed £3.38m for reaching the Uefa Super Cup.

But if Benfica fail to advance past the tournament’s qualifying rounds, then Tottenham would stand to land £48m in total: an amount slightly in excess of what Arsenal will earn.

The Gunners finished second for a third successive year to clinch their golden ticket to the Champions League, where they reached the semi-finals before losing to PSG.

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