The conclusion of the 2025/26 Premier League season took place on Sunday, 24 May 2026, with Arsenal emerging as league champions. Softfootball delves into the financial outcomes for various clubs.
According to various reports, combined earnings for England’s top 20 clubs are estimated to have surpassed £3 billion for the first time.
At the forefront are the newly crowned champions Arsenal Football Club. Their first league title in over 20 years led to an estimated £198.7 million in prize earnings.
The increase in revenue shared among clubs, fueled by expanding overseas television rights agreements, resulted in nearly all teams seeing improvements in their domestic league income compared to the previous year.
Below is the prize money earned by each Premier League club this season:
- Arsenal = £198.7m
- Manchester City = £192.5m
- Manchester United = £191.5m
- Aston Villa = £182.6m
- Liverpool = £181.8m
- Bournemouth = £170.5m
- Sunderland = £168.2m
- Chelsea = £162.6m
- Brighton = £161.6m
- Brentford = £161.6m
- Fulham = £155.2m
- Newcastle = £154.5m
- Everton = £147.7m
- Leeds United = £144.5m
- Crystal Palace = £137.5m
- Nottingham Forest = £137.1m
- Tottenham Hotspur = £135.8m
- West Ham United = £128.6m
- Burnley = £118.1m
- Wolves = £117.7m
Merit payments, a foundational aspect of the Premier League since its inception in 1992, reached unprecedented levels this year. Each position gained in the standings was valued at £3.76 million, marking a 21% rise from the previous record (2022/23: £3.11m), with Arsenal collecting £75.2 million from merit payments alone.
