Spain and France will play next Sunday at San Siro (8:45 p.m.) in the final of the League of Nations, something more than the title at stake, specifically, 10.5 million euros of economic prize awarded by the organizer ( UEFA), which distributes 76.25 million euros among all its participants between prizes and solidarity payments.
Just for reaching this final phase , Spain, France, Italy and Belgium have pocketed 4.5 million euros , between the 2.25 million solidarity payments received by all the teams in the A leagues of this competition, and the 2.25 million prize for having prevailed in his group.
The final fireworks are those 6 million extrathat the winner of the Spanish-French duel on Sunday will receive to complete a loot of 10.5 million to the winner of this duel who will debut his second winner in his palm, after the success of Portugal in the 2019 edition.
The team that ends up defeated will receive 1 .5 million less to finish with a jackpot of 9 million; while between the two teams that will play the duels for third and fourth place, the difference between winning and losing is estimated at one million: the third will raise 8 million in total, and the fourth will remain at 7.
In total, among the 55 League of Nations participantsSome 76.25 million euros are distributed between prizes and solidarity payments to develop football throughout the continent. Just for participating, the federations can obtain between 1.5 million and 500,000 euros in solidarity payments, depending on their group, in addition to what they get for winning each group.
The jackpot is significantly less than what is at stake in the European Championship, which in its edition this summer distributed 371 million euros among the 24 participating teams, 9.25 million per participant, with a maximum of 34 million euros for the winner, Italy, as they won all their group matches.
It is difficult to know today the profitability that the League of Nations offers for UEFA,that in its financial reports, it groups the income and expenses of this competition together with the qualifying matches and the friendlies.
In the previous season in which this competition was played, 2018-19, UEFA obtained 604.5 million euros for the League of Nations, friendlies and qualifiers, divided into 578 million for television rights, 18.3 for income commercial, 6.1 million for the tickets of the final phase in Portugal and an additional million for the hospitality areas in that final phase.
Since the expenses of the League of Nations and of the other competitions grouped together with it in the UEFA financial report for 2018-19 they group together costs of 621.3 million, the result is that the League of Nations showed a deficit of 16.8 million euros, a result that The highest body in European football will find it difficult to improve in this Italian edition due to the impact that the pandemic still has on continental football.

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