The perfect season for the Nerazzurri budget. And with the box office he approaches 200: the semifinal with Barcelona has marked the new record ever
The transition to the finals of the Champions League applies to Inter a 18.5 million euro check and allows the Nerazzurri club to break through the historical UEFA revenues record. However, it ends on May 31 in Munich, for the Inter coffers this European campaign was an unprecedented success. Only under the item UEFA, the check that Nyon will turn in the coming months at the Viale della Liberation headquarters in Milan will be 131.97 million euros to which another 6.5 could be added in case of conquest of the trophy. Not to mention what was collected by filling San Siro for in the seven home evenings that marked the trip to the final on German land.
The return against Barcelona also made the Italian record of all time fall under the recessed item for a single match: 14,675,293 euros. More than the semifinal derby of 2023 (12.5 million) and more than the challenge in the quarterfinals with Bayern Munich which had been 10,061,474 euros. There are no official data, but it is possible to estimate that the overall sum produced by participation in the Champions League 2024/2025 was not too far from 200 million euros. A success for the Oaktree fund who began to close the first balance of his era with an active active in recent times.
A sensational fact if you think that the Nerazzurri company comes from a total passive from half a billion accumulated between 2020 and 2024 (-37.7 to 30 June last), the forward jump is evident and confirms that in the football business the field results are fundamental to limit losses. Also for this awareness, the Californian fund that detected the property from Zhang insolvent a year ago decided not to weaken the sports project, giving a Beppe Marotta The green light for the contract renewals of the most important players.
The UEFA revenue record is also the product of the reform of the Champions League format that has increased the gap between those who take part, making the way, and those who remain outside: a now unbridgeable fork, if it is true that In 2010 of the final won in Madrid, the Inter of Massimo Moratti built the item UEFA “only” 49 million euros. Less than half of those guaranteed today simply reaching the quarterfinals.
Inter, here are the UEFA 2024/2025 prizes for voice
How do you get to the record (or almost) around one hundred million? The account is simple. Inter had access to a participation bonus For this Champions League of 18.62 million euros, to which to add the guaranteed money for the placement in ten -year UEFA ranking (9.67) and the Television Pool Market divided between the Europe area (24.02) and not European (7.36).
Inzaghi’s team closed the first phase with 16 points fruit of 6 wins, a draw and a defeat: total 13.3 million euros in prizes linked to the results of the group. Having placed in the first eight who had access directly to the second phase, the placement bonus (2) was triggered to add to the one for qualifying the round of 16 (11). Eliminating the Feyenoord who had put AC Milan out in the playoff guaranteed a prize passage to the quarter -finals of 12.5 million euros. Making out Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals guaranteed another 15 million check that became 18.5 eliminating the Barcelona of Lamine Yamal. The victory in the Munich final brings an extra bonus of 6.5 more the pass for participation in the European Super Cup which in 2024 was worth at Atalanta, defeated by Real Madrid, a prize of 4 million euros.
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