Chelsea earn £150million for Premier League title win and even sorry Sunderland pocket £100m for their rock-bottom finish
Super Swansea banked almost £4million just by shooting up two places on the final day of the season
CHELSEA added plenty of coins to their Premier League title gold with over £150million banked from the division’s prize pot.
The champagne-soaked Blues pocketed over £50m more than last season’s title winners Leicester after appearing on the box 28 times – only Liverpool got more screen time with 29.
All the 20 teams landed £84.4m from the TV rights pot with Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United landing an added £30.4m while the Kop side played a game more and banked £31.4m.
Even sorry Sunderland – who finished bottom and embarrassed themselves on the final day by booting the ball out of play for John Terry’s OTT substitution – earned £99.9m and were only on TV eight times along with Hull.
Every positon in the Premier League was worth £1.9m so the rock-bottom Mackems took that down to the Championship with them on top of £13.6m for their eight miserable television showings.
Swansea – along with the tissue sellers at Stamford Bridge – made the big money on the final day of the season by jumping two positions and landing £3.8m.
The Welsh side moved from 17th to 15th at the last knockings and will have pleased their accounts department with a late windfall.
Despite all these crazy figures sloshing around in the Premier League, one top-six side has allegedly planned to make the TV companies pay extra for interview access to their players and managers.