The winner of this year’s men’s FA Cup will pocket \u00a32.1m in prize money. A decent sum, perhaps, on the surface of it. That is until you compare it to the prize money on offer for finishing one position higher in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
According to the Premier League website, in 2024-25 each position was worth \u00a32.7m, so finishing 17th, one place above the drop, earned \u00a310.8m – more than five times the amount for winning the FA Cup.<\/p>\n
Not only this, but the financial impact of relegation is enormous. Broadcast money, plus matchday and commercial revenue all take hits.<\/p>\n
And while the actual amount will vary on a club-by-club basis, football finance expert Kieran Maguire believes dropping out of the top flight in 2025-26 will cost clubs an average of \u00a3100m.<\/p>\n
“The club that finished bottom of the Premier League two years ago, the last set of dates we have, got \u00a3111m,” Maguire told the Daily Mail in January.<\/p>\n
“I think by the end of this season, we’ll be looking at somewhere in the region of \u00a3120m from the television companies alone.<\/p>\n
“That will drop to around \u00a345m in the Championship, so that is already about \u00a375m [lost].”<\/p>\n
Once you add the loss of matchday and commercial revenue, it means clubs are staring down the barrel of \u00a3100m+ losses.<\/p>\n
So, when it comes to rotating players, is it really any wonder that managers are increasingly choosing to use domestic cup competitions as rotatory playgrounds?<\/p>\n
While there is seemingly a lot to gain for fans, and you could argue the players, that gain isn’t nearly as appealing for many of those charged with steering the ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winner of this year’s men’s FA Cup will pocket \u00a32.1m in prize money. A decent sum, perhaps,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513848","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\/513848","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=513848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}