The most expensive football game in the world
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The championship
play-offs are the most expensive sporting event in the world. This may be
surprising to most people who aren’t familiar with the championship play-offs. The
reason why the play-offs are so expensive is because of the chance to make it
to the premier league, they will make millions of pounds after winning the
play-offs due to the TV rights that TV channels pay millions per season to the
premier league and also if the new premier league team stays in the premier
league they will get a large amount of prize money.
They say
that the winning team will pocket over sixty million pounds the minute that the
final whistle will blow. This is because of the amount of people that watch the
match live on TV and also the full Wembly Stadium that is full with paying
fans. The clubs all get money from the ticket sales, merchandise and the prize
money that the clubs get for making it that far into the competition.
For the
losing team, they get considerably less money compared to the winning team. They
don’t get near as much money as the winner, this is due to the lack of prize
money that they get for getting into the play-off final due to them not winning
it. They also don’t get anywhere as near as much TV sponsorship money compared
to premier league clubs.
This is why
championship clubs take getting promoted and the play-offs so seriously due to the
financial gain as well as the challenge of competing in the highest division in
England.
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