How much will your club make from the Betfred Cup? Breakdown of £1.8m prize pot

[ian1964 10,613]

SPFL clubs will cash in from the revamped League Cup this season thanks to new sponsorship and broadcast deals.

 

THE winners of this season's Betfred Cup will pocket £200,000 in prize money.

 

Details of how the £1.8 million prize pot will be broken down can be revealed today.

 

And a significant six-figure sum is on offer to the team which triumphs at Hampden in November.

 

The League Cup was given a summer makeover with Betfred announced as its new sponsors and BT Sport agreeing a broadcasting rights deal.

 

The first phase of the competition kicked off on July 15 and is a regionalised seeded sectional stage with eight groups of five clubs.

 

The eight group winners and four best runners-up advance to the last 16 where they will be joined by Celtic, Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibernian.

 

A total of £1.38m will be paid out in prize money with £420,000 set aside for clubs whose ties are selected for live TV coverage.

 

As well as the prize money for winning, the successful club will also earn a £30,000 live TV payment and a share of the gate receipts on top of what they have made at the turnstiles throughout the competition.

 

The runners-up will be rewarded to the tune of £100,000 and receive a live TV payment of £30,000 as well as their portion of the gate receipts.

 

Clubs who go out in the group stages will be paid more depending on where they finished.

 

Fifth-placed teams will each get £15,000; fourth-placed clubs will each receive £17,000 and third-placed sides will each get £19,000. The four worst runners-up will each be handed £23,000.

 

Teams exiting in the second round will each receive £30,000 while the quarter-final losers earn £50,000 apiece.

 

The losing semi-finalists will each receive £70,000.

 

One SPFL club source says the money on offer for finishing bottom of the group is double what clubs received if they went out in the first round last season.

 

And the bumping up of prize money, together with additional broadcast revenue, goes a long way to explaining why the League Cup revamp was given the green light – and why it is here to stay until at least 2020.

 

A new feature has seen the introduction of a bonus point for teams who win a penalty shoot-out at the end of matches which are drawn after 90 minutes.

 

Clubs shown live on BT Sport in the group stages will earn £10,000 each. The payment rises to £20,000 per team for games broadcast from the second round to the semis with £30,000 handed to each Betfred Cup finalist.

 

So far, Rangers have raked in £20,000 in live TV payments. Arbroath, Dundee United, Motherwell, East Stirlingshire, Falkirk and St Johnstone have all earned £10,000.

 

Rangers and Stranraer will each get £10,000 when tonight's match at Ibrox is screened live.

 

One fixture from this weekend's final round of group games will be selected for the box with the chosen clubs cashing in.

 

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[Waltersgotstyle 297]

Great TV deal we've got there....

Edited July 25, 2016 by Waltersgotstyle

[Tannochsidebear 2,368]

The game is truly in safe hands with "windfalls" like this!

 

£1.38M between 44 clubs for a whole competition. The club coming bottom of the EPL this season will get £2.6M PER GAME in tv rights alone.

 

Great job Neil & Peter, keep it up.

[colinstein 294]

It looks fairer than the SPFL payouts. One thing our "journey" has shown me is that most of the money (especially TV) is hogged by the upper echelons of the SPfl top tier. Incredibly the main beneficiaries of our play offs last season was Celtic ! Indeed, peeved by our low ticket prices for those games, the SPFL have now introduced a minimum price for tickets in these matches to keep the gravy train rolling for the top lot in the league.

I think Rangers should show a bit of responsibility and speak out against this

[compo 6,589]

Would be better calling it the hand to mouth cup a crap amount of prize money in fact micky mouse money .