Confirmation of Arsenal’s Premier League title triumph unleashed a tsunami of relief and joy at the Emirates Stadium last night – and also triggered a number of financial pay-outs.
With 2nd place having been the lowest Mikel Arteta’s side could have finished for some time now, Manchester City’s failure to win at Bournemouth last night was only worth about £2.6m in extra prize money for Arsenal, whose total earnings from the Premier League this year will be about £180m.
On top of that, there will be bonuses from sponsors, which could yet swell if they go on to win the Champions League in Budapest on 30 May, though Paris Saint-Germain stand in their way.
From the total money earned, Arsenal’s players will get chunky performance-related fees, and so too will many of the clubs from whom the Gunners signed them.
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In the ‘contingent liabilities’ section of Arsenal’s accounts for 2024-25, the club detailed £17m which would be owed to clubs if signings meet certain targets. A Premier League title would surely account for a big chunk of that figure, with European glory likely to boost it further.
As has been reported elsewhere, players will share in a bonus pool worth eight figures for winning the league, and calculations from Arsenal Insider suggest that could go as high as £25m if a historic double is secured at the Puskas Arena.
Clearly, Stan and Josh Kroenke can afford to sanction these incentives. Arsenal’s revenue reached a club-record £690m in 2024-25. In 2025-26, it could exceed £750m and set a new high watermark for turnover in English football.
The Kroenkes have underwritten Arsenal’s losses to the tune of nearly £350m in the last few seasons.
But even accounting for their summer net spend of nearly £250m, this season will surely yield the first annual profit since KSE took full control of the club in 2018.
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