UEFA: "Primary purpose to pomote the development of football in Europe" (A. Ceferin)

"We must dare to redistribute... More... and in new ways. UEFA is not a bank. We are an association of associations whose primary purpose is to promote the development of football in Europe," said Aleksander Ceferin, president of UEFA at the Congress in Bratislava (SVK) on 26/02/2018.

"Given UEFA's mission is to redistribute its revenue for the overall benefit of European football, the UEFA president pledged that such funding would continue to be substantial," said the European football confederation. "The 24 national teams will share a total of €371m compared with the €301m distributed at UEFA EURO 2016 in France (an increase of 23.2%). In addition, "the HatTrick V solidarity and development programme has been earmarked to receive €775m in its next four-year cycle, from 2020-24. This represents an increase of almost 30% from the €600m available for HatTrick IV (2016-2020)," announced UEFA on 26/02/2018.

"We are in a uniquely privileged position. We have the power to shape the football of the future. Millions of fans all over the world would give anything to be in that position. We…