{"id":646275,"date":"2026-10-14T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646275\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:58:13","slug":"lyon-handed-multi-million-euro-uefa-windfall-despite-painful-champions-league-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646275\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyon handed multi-million euro UEFA windfall despite painful Champions League exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official UEFA financial distribution model guarantees a fixed fee of \u20ac4.29 million for any team eliminated at the final play-off stage. However, further reports suggest Lyon&#8217;s total compensation package could actually reach a figure of approximately \u20ac4.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>This final sum remains a mere fraction of the incredible riches available in the main competition. Clubs that successfully qualify for the Champions League phase instantly receive a massive financial upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Participating teams earn a guaranteed participation bonus of \u20ac18.62 million, before factoring in performance-related bonuses and commercial revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official UEFA financial distribution model guarantees a fixed fee of \u20ac4.29 million for any team eliminated at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4488,85,46,28126,105],"class_list":["post-646275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lyon","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}