For Serie A clubs, winning the league doesn’t just mean adding cutlery to your trophy room or sewing a Scudetto badge on your jersey.
There are strong monetary incentives that accompany the Serie A victory, adding up the percentage of streaming revenue that the league allocates to clubs that end up in the table.
A report by Calcio and Finance explains that at the end of the 2019/20 Serie A season, the league champions raised 23. 4 million euros, while those who finished second, third and fourth won 19. 4 million euros, 16. 8 million euros and 14. 2 million euros. euros, respectively.
Getting a spot in the UEFA Champions League, which means getting one of the 4 most sensible spots in Serie A, also brings significant economic benefits.
The Calcium and Finance report explains that there is a total of 25 million euros that the UEFA Champions League market distributes proportionally among the four most sensitive clubs in Serie A: 10 million euros pass to the winners of the league, 7. 5 million euros. finalists, five million euros to the bronze medalist and 2. 5 million euros to the fourth club.
In recent years, Scudetto’s career in Italy has had an undisputed leader: Juventus.
In addition to Juventus’ reputation in world football and exciteing star players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, the bianconeri’s recent good fortune has also allowed them to enjoy immediate monetary growth.
With an annual turnover of 459. 7 million euros, Juventus is the only Italian club to be among the 10 most sensitive clubs in the Deloitte Football Money League 2020 ranking, a detailed monetary account that ranks football clubs all year round worldwide according to their income. .
However, this 2020/21 season, Serie A Juventus kings are threatened to be dethroned. The table suggests that this year’s Serie A may see the fiercest Scudetto festival of the past decade, while football experts continue to disagree on the team. who will emerge victorious in May.
The provocative result last weekend of Juventus, which saw them give 3-0 home to Fiorentina, sent them to sixth place in the current Serie A standings.
In the first round, the two Mililian clubs, AC Milan and Inter, were the highs targeted in the first leg of this 2020/21 Serie A season. They are first and time respectively in the standings, with 34 and 33 points. and have established a six-point gap between them and the organization of those behind them.
Milan and Inter have an explanation as to why they can continue to be in the most sensible Serie A standings for the rest of the campaign.
The Rossoneri have shown incredible consistency in their matches and performances, scored at least two goals in each of the 14 Serie A rounds played so far and remain the only undefeated team this season with a 10-4-0 record.
Inter has the league’s ultimate prolific attack with 34 goals.
The dismissal of the prestigious UEFA Champions League, which has generated complaints against coach Antonio Conte, may have its long-term merit for the nerazzurri, as they can now put all their energies in the Scudetto.
Among the clubs running from behind, Rome and Napoli have the skill and monetary resources to keep the race to the four most sensitive.
Together with Inter, they are the other Italian clubs with an annual turnover that is among the 20 most sensitive European clubs, according to the same research of the 2020 Deloitte Football Money League.
Sassuolo and Atalanta, fourth and seventh respectively in the Serie A standings, continue to impress to maintain speed with Serie A big clubs while relying on much more limited monetary resources.
Sassuolo and Atalanta are spending 35 million euros and 42. 6 million euros on players’ salaries, according to an October report through the Gazzetta dello Sport. To put it in context, Juventus, which has raised two editions less than Sassuolo and two more than Atalanta, have a payroll of 236 million euros (Atalanta and Juventus have a match on their hands).
Lazio, who is eighth, struggled to reflect last year’s convincing Serie A performances, while newly promoted Hellas Verona and Benevento proved to be the biggest outperformed: they have recorded two of the five smallest pay rates in Serie A, lately they are ninth and tenth on the table, respectively.
With 20 issues and a total of 24 million euros earmarked for player salaries, Hellas Verona has lately had the lowest wage turnover ratio (1. 2) on product items, i. e. Hellas Verona paid an average of 1. 2 million euros for the 20 issues collected. , a figure that makes it the Serie A club with the maximum effective performance in player spending.
At the back of the Serie A table is the Torino with 8 problems and a growing concern about the descent. Granata and his coach Marco Giampaolo are under excessive pressure to get out of this damaging situation, especially since Torino is the eighth Serie A club for the player spends and enjoys an enviable reputation in the Italian football elite.
Serie A will resume on Sunday, January 3, 2021.
I am from Riva Del Garda, Italy, graduated from Duke University and am a professional footballer with North Carolina FC in the United States.
I am from Riva Del Garda, Italy, graduated from Duke University and am a professional footballer from North Carolina FC in the United States. When I’m not training, I write reports on Serie A matches and players for Total Football Analysis, I’m hosting the TFA Series. A podcast and, infrequently, full-color observation in epL and Serie A matches. I also like to be the blog of a team in which I introduce professional NCFC and NC Courage players. I won’t be true to myself if I didn’t wake up at 6 a. m. every Sunday to attend the start of the Serie A match.