Barcelona & PSG Set To Earn $1m From Women’s Champions League Group Stage

As the first-ever group stage in the UEFA Women’s Champions League ended yesterday evening, the holders FC Barcelona and French champions, Paris Saint-Germain are set to earn the highest amounts in prize money after qualifying for the knockout stages by winning all six of their matches.

With UEFA centralizing television and commercial rights for the first time this season, the sixteen teams who qualified to play in the group stage were guaranteed a “starting fee” payment of €400,000 ($452,579). This is supplemented by performance bonuses of €50,000 ($56,577) per win and €17,000 ($19,236) for a draw. Read More

admin

Recent Posts

How a Women’s College Volleyball Team Became the Center of the Transgender Athlete Debate

Not since the swimmer Lia Thomas has a college athlete or team put the fiercely…

10 months ago

Geno Auriemma becomes all-time winningest college basketball coach in 40th year at UConn

UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma passed Tara VanDerveer as college basketball’s all-time winningest coach…

11 months ago

Lindsey Vonn Plans a World Cup Return as She Rejoins the U.S. Ski Team

Five years ago, Lindsey Vonn retired from ski racing, largely because her aching right knee,…

11 months ago

New York Liberty win their first WNBA title and celebrate the end of a long odyssey

As confetti fell and Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blared through the arena, the…

12 months ago

Susie Maxwell Berning, Hall of Fame Golfer, Is Dead at 83

Susie Maxwell Berning, a three-time champion of the United States Women’s Open golf tournament who…

12 months ago

SafeSport shelves probe of former NWSL coach, sparking outcry

Once a dominant figure in girls’ and women’s soccer, Rory Dames in recent years has…

12 months ago