{"id":397879,"date":"2026-01-30T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:46:11","slug":"celtic-prize-money-from-europa-league-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397879\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic prize money from Europa League play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s team needed a victory to progress and started strong with a three-goal lead, thanks to a Benjamin Nygren double and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/arne-engels\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arne Engels<\/a> penalty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite Utrecht&#8217;s attempts at a comeback, reducing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtic<\/a>&#8216;s lead to 3-2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/auston-trusty\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Auston Trusty<\/a>&#8216;s header from an Engels delivery secured the points.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The result has off-field benefits too with the play-off qualification and win generating prize money for the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Victory alone provided \u20ac450,000, while qualification for the play-off stage earned an additional \u20ac300,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This means Celtic secured earnings of \u20ac750,000 (\u00a3650,000) for this fixture alone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Further prizes culminate in a total of \u20ac6.26m (\u00a35.43m) earned by the club so far this season from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/europa-league\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europa League<\/a> campaign, a figure including the \u20ac4.31m prize for competing in the league phase of the competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club also banked \u20ac1.2m from their successful record in their first five games of the group stage, which included two wins and two draws.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It&#8217;s not only the potential of further play-off stage victories that holds financial promise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Should Celtic advance to the last-16 stage, they will be rewarded with an additional \u20ac1.75m prize money.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They will discover their opponents for the play-off in the draw tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As it stands, Celtic\u2019s solid performance in Europe this campaign has not only underlined their ambition and ability on the pitch but has proved a significant financial boost for the club, rewarding their successful results with substantial prize money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s team needed a victory to progress and started strong with a three-goal lead, thanks to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-397879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}