Serie A prize money
Serie A shares £760.7m of broadcast money between its 20 clubs. Half of it is split equally, so every club is paid £19,017,094 whatever it does. The other half is decided by seven separate measures, and this is the size of each of them.
Italian law fixes the percentages and fixes nothing else. The headline broadcast deal is a gross figure, and what reaches the clubs is that money less what is paid down to the division below and to the leagues under it, which nobody publishes as a total. So the pot divided here is ours, rounded to the nearest ten million, and every amount on this page is one of the law's percentages of it.
How the pot is cut
The three parts a Serie A season is divided into
| PART OF THE POT | SHARE | A SEASON |
|---|---|---|
| Equal shares | 50% | £380,341,880£380.3m |
| Sporting results | 28% | £212,991,453£213.0m |
| Social roots | 22% | £167,350,428£167.4m |
| The whole pot | 100% | £760,683,761£760.7m |
What each part is
The equal share is the half a club cannot lose. It is paid at the same rate to the champions and to the club finishing bottom, which is why £19,017,094 is the floor a Serie A season starts from. Between them those floors come to £380,341,880, which is 4.0 times the £95,389,744 paid on crowds, the largest measure clubs actually compete over.
What the sporting results share is paid on
Four separate measures of where clubs have finished, running from the season just gone back over the whole history of the league
| MEASURE | SHARE | A SEASON |
|---|---|---|
| Last season, by position | 11.2% | £85,196,581£85.2m |
| Last season, by points | 2.8% | £21,299,145£21.3m |
| The five seasons before that | 9.33% | £70,971,795£71.0m |
| Results before those | 4.67% | £35,523,932£35.5m |
| Sporting results | 28% | £212,991,453£213.0m |
What each measure counts
What the social roots share is paid on
How big a club's following is and how much of it turns up, plus a small share for playing young players
| MEASURE | SHARE | A SEASON |
|---|---|---|
| Crowds | 12.54% | £95,389,744£95.4m |
| Television audience | 8.36% | £63,593,163£63.6m |
| Young players | 1.1% | £8,367,521£8.4m |
| Social roots | 22% | £167,350,428£167.4m |
What each measure counts
Frequently asked questions
How much does a Serie A club get from broadcast money?
£19,017,094 before anything else, which is the equal share every club is paid whatever it does. On top of that it is paid out of seven further measures: £212,991,453 on sporting results and £167,350,428 on social roots. How much of those a club takes depends on where it finished, how many people came, how many watched and how much it played its young players.
How is Serie A broadcast money divided?
Out of £760,683,761 a season: £380,341,880 shared equally, £212,991,453 on sporting results and £167,350,428 on social roots. As percentages that is 50% on equal shares, 28% on sporting results and 22% on social roots.
Does every Serie A club get the same?
Half of it, yes. £380,341,880 is split 20 ways at £19,017,094 each, and the champions and the club finishing bottom are paid the same from it. The other 50% is where clubs pull apart.
What is a Serie A club paid for finishing higher?
Finishing position is worth 11.2% of the pot, £85,196,581, and last season's points total another 2.8% at £21,299,145. Both are pots shared out across the division on those measures rather than a fixed rate per place.
What is the largest Serie A payment outside the equal share?
Crowds, at 12.54% of the pot or £95,389,744. It is the largest of the seven measures clubs compete over, and the £380,341,880 shared out equally is still 4.0 times the size of it.
What does each Serie A club earn from television?
No such figure is published. Italian law sets the percentages and the league does not publish the allocation behind any of them, so what a named club received is not something anybody prints. What is published is the model, and that is what this page is: the size of every slice, down to the 1.1% paid on young players.
Where to next
The rest of the money a club plays for
Where a league publishes what its clubs were actually paid, we print the payments instead: Premier League prize money, La Liga prize money and La Liga 2 prize money. Bundesliga prize money publishes a formula like this one, with a percentage against every finishing position on top of it. For the cups, see FA Cup prize money and Carabao Cup prize money, and in Europe Champions League prize money, Club World Cup prize money, Europa League prize money and Conference League prize money. For what a relegated club is paid after it leaves, see Championship parachute payments. Where a competition pays for where a team finished rather than for every round it won, see World Cup prize money. Or see what Serie A clubs pay their squads.