The duel between Germany and Scotland kicked off the 17th European Football Championship at the Allianz Arena in Munich. A month later, on Sunday July 14, the final will be played at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Three years after a special Euro 2020, organized in eleven different countries, postponed for a year and played in front of half-empty stands due to the covid pandemic, the Euro is taking place again in a single country. Under more or less normal conditions, given the very real terrorist threat.
Whether nations play three matches or more, their players will receive bonuses to go as far as possible in the competition.
Euro 2024: everything you need to know about the Red Devils’ opponents during the group stages
The Red Devils: what are their bonuses for Euro 2024?
In Belgium, we are preparing things in advance since it was already in the spring of 2023 that our Devils negotiated bonuses for Euro 2024 with the federation. Bonuses about which we know a little more thanks to the Flemish daily Het Laatste Nieuws which revealed some figures! Important clarification: these are the bonuses paid by the Belgian Union independent of what Belgium will receive directly from UEFA…
Each Devil is thus guaranteed to receive a minimum of 42,000 euros gross, whatever the outcome of the tournament. In other words, this is the bonus in the event of elimination from the group stage. The Devils reach the round of 16? De Buyne&co will receive 80,000 euros in total. They push a little further? It will be 180,000 if they stop in the quarter-finals.
Do you want more ? Okay… If Domenico Tedesco’s men find themselves in the last four of Euro 2024, their bonuses will rise again sharply to reach the 280,000 euros.
If the Devils win Euro 2024: what bonus in total?
What if the Devils lose the semi-final but get bronze? It will be 312,000 euros. The defeat in the final for the Red Devils still promises to be 330,000 euros. And the final victory of course? 445,000 euros if they win the title on July 14 in Berlin.
The envelope for the selected Red Devils reaches 11 million euros! Outflows largely offset by the check that the Belgian Union will receive from UEFA: 34 million euros in the event of a European coronation.
Euro 2024: where to watch the Red Devils matches?
For Euro 2024, UEFA will distribute more than 300 million euros in match bonuses.
Let’s start at the beginning… A ticket for Euro 2024 already represents for each of the 24 qualified nations: a participation bonus of 9.25 million. To which is added 1 million euros per victory in the group stage, 500,000 if it is a draw. Then, it’s the direct elimination phase which begins with bonuses up for grabs at each stage of the competition. A calculation is quickly made: the team which has won the 7 matches of the tournament will be able to demand 28.25 million euros from UEFA.
– 1/8th: 1.5 million
– 1/4: 2.5 million
– 1/2: 4 million
– Finalist: 5 million euros
– Final winner: 8 million
How much will the players of the France team and Kylian Mbappé receive at Euro 2024
According to information from the newspaper Le Parisien, if the French team were to win the competition by having won all of its matches, each of the 25 players selected could leave Germany with a nice envelope of 300,000 euros. To this, we must add the amounts of image rights bonuses which amount to 21,200 per match, i.e. a potential surplus of 148,400 additional to arrive at a total around the 450,000 euros. An amount still higher than that of the Red Devils…
Who will win Euro 2024 and take the maximum bonuses?
If we base ourselves on the weekly letter published by the CIES football observatory, Germany and Spain would be the two favorite nations for the competition. The organization is mainly based on the competitiveness of the staff involved. Players from one or the other nation are already rubbing their hands!
