The Premier League’s success has long been based on the enormous sums that broadcasters are willing to pay for screening games in both the domestic market in the UK, where Sky Sports and TNT Sports are broadcasters, and the international market, with the value of rights varying by country and territory.
The value of the deal for the current Premier League TV cycle was more than four years, which was an extension of the previous three-year cycle. The present arrangement is worth more than £12 billion over its life, with £6.7 billion coming from domestic rights. The current cycle began at the start of the 2024/25 season.
How Premier League Clubs Divide Their Broadcast Revenue
There are three components to Premier League broadcast revenue: domestic, foreign, and commercial rights.
Domestic Broadcast Rights
There are three major elements that influence how much each team gets from domestic broadcast rights:
Equal share payment (£29.8 million for the season).
Merit payment (£1.6 million per place at the final table)
Facility fees (£830,000 for each live appearance on domestic television).
International Broadcast Rights
Revenue from overseas rights is more volatile because transactions are made outside of the domestic cycle and games are sold in bulk to foreign broadcasters. It is therefore more difficult to anticipate how much each team will earn from them.
Two factors influence how much each club gets from overseas broadcasting:
Equal share payment
Merit payment
Facility fees are included in the equal share payment because all games are broadcast abroad. Domestically, the 3 p.m. blackout regulation limits the number of games broadcast on television.
Commercial rights.
Each Premier League club receives an equal share of the £158 million earned from the league’s official partners. This works out to £7.9 million per club.
Domestic Facility Fees So Far This Season
Facility fees can be a significant source of revenue for clubs. Last year’s numbers indicated that Liverpool, picked for 30 live games, received £24.9 million, while Manchester United, who ended one place lower than West Ham United but played 10 more live games than the Hammers at 28, got £23.4 million, compared to the London Stadium side’s £15.4 million.
Domestic broadcasters choose the games for the schedule ahead of time, and we know what it will look like from now until the end of November. Using the identical facility fee data as previous year (£830k per televised game), we can see which teams have received the most live TV money to date.
How much did each Premier League team earn in Domestic Facility Fees up to Gameweek 13?
Television games
Domestic Facility Fees
Chelsea
11
£9.7m
Liverpool
11
£9.7m
Arsenal
10
£8.9m
Aston Villa
10
£8.9m
Manchester City
10
£8.9m
Manchester United
10
£8.9m
Nottingham Forest
10
£8.9m
Tottenham Hotspur
10
£8.9m
Newcastle
9
£8.1m
Brentford
8
£7.3m
Everton
8
£7.3m
West Ham
8
£7.3m
Leeds
7
£6.5m
Brighton
6
£5.7m
Fulham
6
£5.7m
Wolves
6
£5.7m
Bournemouth
5
£4.9m
Crystal Palace
5
£4.9m
Burnley
4
£4.1m
Sunderland
4
£4.1m
Other Domestic Revenue: Equal Share and Merit Payments.
The domestic central payments numbers for 2024/25 reveal that each Premier League side got £29.8 million as an equal share payment from the home market, with merit rewards of £1.6 million per place in the tournament, with champions Liverpool getting the most at £32.3 million. These are projected to continue for the current season, with each Premier League side earning between £31.4 million and £61.8 million in addition to facility fees. Here’s how much each team would earn from equal share and metric payments based on their position in the standings this season.
Premier League Merit Payments Based on Position and Equal Share Payment
Merit Payments
+ Equal share.
1st
£32.3m
£62.1m
2nd
£30.7m
£60.5m
3rd
£29.1m
£58.9m
4th
£27.5m
£57.3m
5th
£25.8m
£55.6m
6th
£24.2m
£54m
7th
£22.6m
£52.4m
8th
£21m
£50.8m
9th
£19.4m
£49.2m
10th
£17.8m
£47.6m
11th
£16.2m
£46m
12th
£14.5m
£44.3m
13th
£12.9m
£42.7m
14th
£11.3m
£41.1m
15th
£9.7m
£39.5m
16th
£8.1m
£37.9m
17th
£6.5m
£36.3m
18th
£4.8m
£34.6m
19th
£3.2m
£33m
20th
£1.6m
£31.4m
Revenue from International Rights—Equal Share and Merit Payments
Foreign broadcasters purchase international rights as part of a package transaction. It is built into the equal portion that they receive from international rights, as well as the merit-based compensation structure. Because the international cycle does not coincide with the domestic one, revenue can fluctuate when rights are sold in different areas at different times.
Clubs are not charged facility costs on a per-game basis when they are chosen for live coverage because all 380 games are shown live throughout the season on NBC and its related channels, including NBC, USA Network, and Peacock.
The usefulness of those live games is demonstrated by the power of the equal rights that are awarded. For the international market, the equal share per club in 2024/25 was £59.2 million, which was £29.4 million more than the merit payment from domestic rights. The merit payout amounted to £1.04 million per place in the ranking.
Revenue from Commercial Rights: Official Premier League Partners
Aside from the massive sums that the Premier League receives from the sale of broadcast rights packages at home and abroad, the league also generates £158 million in commercial revenue from official partners among the 20 member teams.
That works out to £7.9 million per team, an equal sum derived from the Premier League’s formal relationships with firms such as lead sponsor EA Sports, as well as Budweiser, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Adobe, and Microsoft.
Every Premier League club’s expected broadcast revenue this season
We predicted every Premier League club’s broadcast revenue for the 2025/26 season. This is based upon:
Equal share (domestic and foreign), and commercial rights revenue remain the same as last season.
Merit payments (local and foreign) are the same as last season, and the ultimate league position is determined by Supercomputer projections.
Facility payments remain unchanged from previous season, with the ultimate number of televised games decided by extrapolating each team’s share of games telecast by gameweek 13 over the season.
This table will be updated on a regular basis to reflect the number of televised games in which each team has participated, as well as updated supercomputer forecasts for the final league place.
Premier League clubs’ potential earnings for the current season:
Total Revenue
Combined Merit Payments (Predicted Finish)
Facility Fees (Predicted Television Games)
Equal Shares + Commercial
Arsenal
£174.1m
£53.1m (1st)
£24.1m (29)
£96.9m
Liverpool
£173.9m
£50.5m (2nd)
£26.6m (32)
£96.9m
Manchester City
£168.8m
£47.8m (3rd)
£24.1m (29)
£96.9m
Chelsea
£168.6m
£45.2m (4th)
£26.6m (32)
£96.9m
Tottenham
£163.4m
£42.4m (5th)
£24.1m (29)
£96.9m
Newcastle
£155.6m
£37.2m (7th)
£21.6m (26)
£96.9m
Aston Villa
£155.5m
£34.5m (8th)
£24.1m (29)
£96.9m
Bournemouth
£149.2m
£39.8m (6th)
£12.5m (15)
£96.9m
Nottingham Forest
£142.2m
£21.2m (13th)
£24.1m (29)
£96.9m
Crystal Palace
£141.2m
£31.2m (9th)
£12.5m (15)
£96.9m
Brighton
£141.1m
£29.3m (10th)
£14.9m (18)
£96.9m
Fulham
£138.4m
£26.6m (11th)
£14.9m (18)
£96.9m
Leeds
£137.4m
£23.9m (12th)
£16.6m (20)
£96.9m
Manchester United
£136.9m
£15.9m (15th)
£24.1m (29)
£96.9m
Everton
£134.6m
£18.6m (14th)
£19.1m (23)
£96.9m
Brentford
£129.3m
£13.3m (16th)
£19.1m (23)
£96.9m
West Ham
£126.7m
£10.7m (17th)
£19.1m (23)
£96.9m
Wolves
£119.8m
£7.9m (18th)
£14.9m (18)
£96.9m
Sunderland
£112.1m
£5.3m (19th)
£9.7m (12)
£96.9m
Burnley
£109.5m
£2.7m (20th)
£9.7m (12)
£96.9m
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