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Official cup club money distribution - unfair

By gurdash - 08-11-2016 16:28

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Hi all. I have made a small research regarding club money earned in official cups. The main issue I have found is that money coming from the stadium facitilies is not shared between clubs, so based on random home/away team selection, it can pose big differences in earnings between clubs that make similar (or the same) success in the cup. Money earned in cups is quite small because of small crowds (200-600 per match, depending on the cup type), but in the last 5 cup rounds crowd increases a lot - so does the money. In general, attendance goes like this in last 5 rounds: 1/16: 2000+ 1/8: 6000 QF: 8600 SF: 10500 F: 11000 (would go over 15000, but nobody has stadium as big) Average spectator pays 13.6 euro for ticket and spends additional 10.3 euro at stadium facilities (assuming that stadium is built in proper ratios and most of them are). Since the ratio of spectators at terraces, seating and VIP boxes is quite constant, the above average numbers are good for estimating earnings from any number of spectators. As the money from tickets is shared between both clubs, each club gets 6.8 euro and the home club gets additional 10.3 euro per spectator. Now, I have found one of recent cups to back my statement of unfair earnings share in official cups. The cup is "Division Cup Season 59 - Europe Top League" with awards of 50000 euro for the winner and 40000 and 30000 for 2nd and 3rd place. I have disregarded all earnings from the group stage of the cup, since all clubs play equal number of games home and away - and the crowd is really small (200+), so it doesn't matter much. I have gathered crowd statistics only for last 5 rounds (including the last round of group play, since this cup had on 4 play-off rounds), because the number of spectators is much increased in those 5 rounds. So, here are the estimated earnings of best teams: Winner: Balkan Belogradnik earned 320k + 50k reward (only 1/8F were home) Runner up: Dynamite earned 469k + 40k reward (last group round + QF + F were home) 3rd place: Újlõrincfalva LC earned 426k + 30k reward (1/8F + SF were home) 4th place: Szegvár SK earned 576k, no reward (1/16F + QF + SF + 3rd place match were home) It is not hard to see that the winner earned the least money. Yes, he must be happy anyway, because he won the competition, the prestige and all that, but is that fair division of earnings? Did the 50k reward make it better? Not really. Compared to 576k earned by Szegvár SK, this 50k looks like a trinket. Additional analysis over other 4 clubs knocked out in quarter-finals also shows unfair money distribution for the seemingly same level of success in the cup: Porvoon Futura: 272k (3 home matches) Drink Team: 197k (only QF were home) PR Merkkausvirhe 104k (all away) V.K.DRINK Hermanovce: 101k (all away, poor thing didn't event play the last group round because the group had odd number of participants) For conclusion, two things: 1. Maybe it would be better to share also the facilities money in the play-off stages of cup? 2. Reward money seems quite small compared to crowd earnings from last 5 rounds. Even for the bigger cups (where reward is 150k for the winner), it appears like the reward is here just to make cup info look more attractive.Hi all.
I have made a small research regarding club money earned in official cups. The main issue I have found is that money coming from the stadium facitilies is not shared between clubs, so based on random home/away team selection, it can pose big differences in earnings between clubs that make similar (or the same) success in the cup.

Money earned in cups is quite small because of small crowds (200-600 per match, depending on the cup type), but in the last 5 cup rounds crowd increases a lot - so does the money. In general, attendance goes like this in last 5 rounds:
1/16: 2000+
1/8: 6000
QF: 8600
SF: 10500
F: 11000 (would go over 15000, but nobody has stadium as big)

Average spectator pays 13.6 euro for ticket and spends additional 10.3 euro at stadium facilities (assuming that stadium is built in proper ratios and most of them are). Since the ratio of spectators at terraces, seating and VIP boxes is quite constant, the above average numbers are good for estimating earnings from any number of spectators. As the money from tickets is shared between both clubs, each club gets 6.8 euro and the home club gets additional 10.3 euro per spectator.

Now, I have found one of recent cups to back my statement of unfair earnings share in official cups. The cup is "Division Cup Season 59 - Europe Top League" with awards of 50000 euro for the winner and 40000 and 30000 for 2nd and 3rd place. I have disregarded all earnings from the group stage of the cup, since all clubs play equal number of games home and away - and the crowd is really small (200+), so it doesn't matter much. I have gathered crowd statistics only for last 5 rounds (including the last round of group play, since this cup had on 4 play-off rounds), because the number of spectators is much increased in those 5 rounds. So, here are the estimated earnings of best teams:

Winner: Balkan Belogradnik earned 320k + 50k reward (only 1/8F were home)
Runner up: Dynamite earned 469k + 40k reward (last group round + QF + F were home)
3rd place: Újlõrincfalva LC earned 426k + 30k reward (1/8F + SF were home)
4th place: Szegvár SK earned 576k, no reward (1/16F + QF + SF + 3rd place match were home)

It is not hard to see that the winner earned the least money. Yes, he must be happy anyway, because he won the competition, the prestige and all that, but is that fair division of earnings? Did the 50k reward make it better? Not really. Compared to 576k earned by Szegvár SK, this 50k looks like a trinket.

Additional analysis over other 4 clubs knocked out in quarter-finals also shows unfair money distribution for the seemingly same level of success in the cup:

Porvoon Futura: 272k (3 home matches)
Drink Team: 197k (only QF were home)
PR Merkkausvirhe 104k (all away)
V.K.DRINK Hermanovce: 101k (all away, poor thing didn't event play the last group round because the group had odd number of participants)

For conclusion, two things:
1. Maybe it would be better to share also the facilities money in the play-off stages of cup?
2. Reward money seems quite small compared to crowd earnings from last 5 rounds. Even for the bigger cups (where reward is 150k for the winner), it appears like the reward is here just to make cup info look more attractive.

 

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Re: Official cup club money distribution - unfair

By deleted_3797271 - 17-11-2016 16:49

I totally agree with your statement, I thought about this in the past but I never wrote anything about it. Both point 1. and 2. need revising from the crew (in my opinion). All the best.I totally agree with your statement, I thought about this in the past but I never wrote anything about it. Both point 1. and 2. need revising from the crew (in my opinion).
All the best.

 

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