After tomorrow evening, without playing, Girona can reach the biggest milestone in its history. if theAthletic Club perd a Getafethe Girona team will be, mathematically, classified for next season’s edition of the Champions League. An unprecedented milestone for a club whose survival has hung by a thread more than once not so long ago and which has just completed four seasons in Primera. If Athletic scores tomorrow, calm down, there will be more opportunities to stake a goal that must fall sooner rather than later. On Saturday itself, in Barça’s visit to Montilivi, it could become a reality if the Basques match the result, draw or win. Either way, Girona will play the Champions League next year is a fact and we just need to know when it will be and how it will be celebrated. From here, Míchel’s men will have reached an unthinkable milestone that will be added to the long list of impossibles that the best Girona in history has achieved this season. And once access to the top continental competition is confirmed, the Girona dressing room faces another challenge that is even more ambitious and at the same time feasible: second place in the standings. Little joke, which is no anecdote. The difference between being second and third, both sportingly because it allows you to contest the Super Cupas economically, because it is a pinch of fat and more for a small club like Girona.
The pinch that separates the second from the third is variable, but this season it has exceeded seven million euros. Since 2015, the position in the final classification varies the income clubs receive from television rights. At the outset, by law, all First Division teams share half of the total (1,427 million) that enters the Television League. So each club has received this exercise 35.6 million euros. From there, the rest of the pie varies depending on the classification by 25% and another 25% in accordance with the club’s social implementation (season tickets, ticket offices, generation of resources for the commercialization of broadcasts). The classification scale has allowed Girona to belong this season, apart from the 35’6 fixes, 9’81 milions more for finishing tenth last year and for the rest of the results of the last five years. To quantify the figure for qualifying merits in recent years, ethose of the current season are valued at 35%, the penultimate one by 20% and the other three by 15%. This year the difference between the second and third place was around seven million. In this sense, if we take the numbers from last year, the second, Madrid took 53.51 million, for Atlético’s 46.38, third. What is certain is that Girona will enter a figure much higher than the 45 million this year, which could even double.
The differences between one place and the other do not end there because the second position sends the club directly to the Super Cup which is played in Arabia and where the clubs also share the income pie. Of course, it would be necessary to see what part would go to Girona, if it would be closer to the 1.8 million that they have received in l’health or what Barça usually charges, usually first or second and that next year would not be there, and that a minimum of 2.8 million just to participate. The winner and runner-up win two and one million extra respectively. In addition, the Federation allocates a portion of 300.000 euros to each club for accommodation and travel.
It has become clear, then, that being second is a not inconsiderable bonus for Girona. That’s why both sportingly for the prestige of the players and coaching staff and, financially, for the club, I would suppose the cherry on top of a season to frame.
2024-05-01 04:30:12
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