UEFA Women's Cups: €37.7m/year to be allocated in 2025-26 & 2026-27, €46.7m/year for next 3 seasons

"Women's club football in Europe will enjoy a major boost from next season onwards, featuring a revamped and fully centralised UEFA Women's Champions League, the kick-off of the new UEFA Women's Europa Cup and a new financial distribution system that will benefit clubs across the continent," announced the European Confederation on 16/12/2024.

The 2025-26 season marks the start of a new five-year cycle (2025-2030) for women's football in Europe.

According to UEFA, TV rights and sponsorship revenues are expected to grow over this period "with a substantial increase" from 2027-28 onwards. It therefore plans to redistribute €37.7m per season in 2025-26 and 2026-27, then €46.7m in each of the following three seasons (an increase of 23.9%), bearing in mind that UEFA has undertaken to provide clubs with a minimum of €22m for the Women's Champions League in 2024-25.

These sums will be divided between four groups of beneficiaries (see amounts below):
1 - The 18 clubs taking part in the new league phase of the Women's Champions League,
2 - Clubs taking part in the Women's Champions League…