By: Joe Hall

I'm a sports and sports business journalist with City A.M. Follow me for coverage of the industry behind sports and the money made by top athletes. I've provided expert commentary on sports business for both TV and radio, including the BBC World Service. My email is always open to tips and story ideas: joe.hall@cityam.com

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Race to Dubai 2017 prize money: How much did Tommy Fleetwood win by triumphing at DP World Tour Championship

November 20, 2017

As the European Tour’s curtain call event, this weekend’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai settled the outcome of the season-long Race To Dubai and the lucrative bonus pot that comes with it. England’s Tommy Fleetwood yesterday pipped fellow Englishman Justin Rose to the overall title. Both men finished out of contention for the final [...]
World Cup 2018 prize money: Fifa increases financial offering to $400m

October 28, 2017

The winning team at next year's World Cup in Russia will be awarded a record $38m (£29m) in prize money, after world football governing body Fifa boosted its financial offering to record levels. A total prize money pool of $400m represents a 12 per cent increase on the $358m paid out to teams at the [...]
World Cup 2018 prize money: Fifa increases financial offering to $400m

October 28, 2017

The winning team at next year's World Cup in Russia will be awarded a record $38m (£29m) in prize money, after world football governing body Fifa boosted its financial offering to record levels. A total prize money pool of $400m represents a 12 per cent increase on the $358m paid out to teams at the [...]
Uefa figures reveal Leicester banked more money from Europe last season than Champions League winners Real Madrid and Europa League winners Manchester United

October 20, 2017

Leicester City made more money from playing in Europe last season than Champions League winners Real Madrid, new figures from Uefa reveal. The European football governing body has published the exact sums earned in prize money and TV payments by clubs playing in the Champions League and Europa League last season. Leicester, currently in the [...]
How much is winning the Champions League worth? Prize money at stake for Liverpool and Celtic announced by Uefa

August 18, 2017

Clubs can earn up to €57.2m (£48m) in prize money for winning the Champions League this season, after European governing body Uefa announced they would hand out €1.3bn to clubs in the competition. Uefa has recommitted to putting up the same sums of prize money as it did last season, when the competition’s most successful [...]
Champions League prize money 2017: Competition’s biggest earners Real Madrid and Juventus can win record prize in Cardiff

June 2, 2017

This Saturday’s Champions League final between Juventus and Real Madrid pits two of the competition’s biggest-earners up against each other for the largest prize in its history. Juventus and Real Madrid are the highest and second-highest earning clubs from European competitions in the last five years, having been paid a respective €281m (£245.9m) and €277m [...]
Europa League prize money: Manchester United triumph more lucrative than their Champions League campaign

May 25, 2017

Manchester United pocketed €14.7m (£12.7m) in prize money after winning the Europa League with a 2-0 win over Ajax in the final. The Premier League giants secured the final winner's prize of €6.5m to add to the €8.2m they'd already earned from European football governing body Uefa. Ajax, whose total wage bill is more than [...]
“Our model has a bright future” – Manchester City’s owners eye China and India as next outpost for burgeoning football empire

March 19, 2017

Last week the Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City became the first Premier League club to announce an official shirt sleeve sponsor, unveiling a deal with a Korean company at an event attended by their Spanish manager Pep Guardiola and German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan. The multi-year agreement with existing partner Nexen Tire — the first of its [...]
Manchester City parent company eyeing China and India for next clubs, says City Football Group commercial chief Tom Glick

March 19, 2017

China and India are the most likely locations of future additions to City Football Group’s (CFG) international network of clubs, chief commercial officer Tom Glick has told City A.M. Manchester City’s parent company CFG already owns New York City FC in the United States and Melbourne City in Australia, as well as a minority stake [...]
Six Nations 2017: Why Ireland vs England is “massive” for sponsors Guinness on St. Patrick’s Day weekend

March 18, 2017

As far as weekends go, they don’t come much bigger for Guinness. St. Patrick’s Day, of course, means pint pullers around the world will have spent an evening with one hand permanently affixed to the Guinness pump — it is estimated that the annual celebration can double the average day sales of the Diageo-owned brand. [...]

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