Who will get European football's post-2024 billions? Wait and see, says ECA chief
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ECA chief executive says that Europe’s clubs need to take stock of recent changes to UEFA competitions before deciding how revenues will be split after 2024.
Years of infighting defined struggle to decide post-2024 competition format. Will there be similar rows about how funds are shared?
Why it matters: Massive influx of money from 2024 threatens to open up the gap between European qualifiers and the rest – possibly to insurmountable levels.
The perspective: Marshall says that leagues also have a duty to spread UEFA riches, pointing to Eredvisie, where clubs give 5 per cent of earnings to non-qualifiers.
18 October 2022 - 12:00 PM
It is late-September and in an ante room in Istanbul’s Çiragan Palace on the banks of the Bosphorus River, Charlie Marshall, the affable CEO of the European Club Association (ECA), is giving a run down of how the financial spoils of European club competition might look over the next decade.
The meeting point, now a luxury hotel, was once the residence of Otto
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