Whenever you turn into the primary group exterior of Europe’s seven most necessary leagues to have fun a title since 2011, the season Porto received the Europa League…
Whenever you turn into solely the 4th group exterior Europe’s prime 5 leagues (England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France) to achieve a European closing within the final 20 years, one thing solely Shakhtar Donetsk in 2005, Dnipro in 2015 and Rangers in 2022…
…then you’re certainly entitled to dream of one thing larger sooner or later. And Olympiacos this season emerged because the membership of the yr in Europe, as within the area of a month the Youth group received the Youth League, the Champions League for younger individuals, and its males’s group received its first European trophy and the primary for Greece in membership degree.
Nonetheless, past the celebrations for the massive success of the “pink and white”, the earnings of the Piraeus group are big. Not solely on a monetary degree but in addition by way of racing, data, status, glory. And all this from a group that till February regarded damaged, discredited and with no compass. And which due to the arrival of the “wizard” Jose Luis Mendilibar, who not solely pulled rabbits out of his jacket however reworked Olympiakos from a frog to a prince, modified course and wrote essentially the most golden web page within the membership’s 99-year historical past. And all this inside three months!
However let’s take them so as:
To start with are the revenues of Piraeus PAE from this yr’s dream European journey of the group. The place the conquest of the Convention League put greater than 16.5 million euros within the coffers of the “pink whites” with out counting the revenue from the tickets, the boutique, and so on. Analytically:
• Participation within the third qualifying spherical of the Europa League: 100,000 euros.
• Participation within the Europa League teams: 3,630,000 (3,400,000 + 230,000).
• Efficiency in Europa League teams: 1,470,000 for 2 wins and one draw (630,000 + 630,000 + 210,000).
• Convention League spherical of 32 playoff participation: 300,000.
• Convention League final 16 attendance: 600,000.
• Participation within the Convention League quarterfinals: 1,000,000.
• Participation within the closing: 3,000,000.
• Decade rank: 3,432,000 (twenty sixth x 132,000).
• Market pool: About 1,000,000.
• Trophy received: 2,000,000.
• Complete: 16,532,000
It needs to be famous that 5 million euros of this cash might be given by Vangelis Marinakis to the gamers as a premium for profitable the trophy. The proprietor of Olympiakos had introduced this quantity to the gamers instantly after the group certified in Istanbul in opposition to Fenerbahce and certified for the semifinals of the Convention League.
The income and aggressive advantages
Aside from the revenue, nonetheless, since final Wednesday night, Olympiacos has been having fun with equally important earnings within the aggressive half as effectively. The Convention League holders secured their European presence within the new season within the Europa League group stage! Which signifies that they may compete in Europe a minimum of till January 2025, giving with the brand new mission of the UEFA competitions eight matches within the single league section of the competitors. The draw of its eight opponents will happen on August 30, the premiere on September 25-26 and the ultimate matchday might be held on January 30. Virtually, one of many greatest beneficial properties of the “pink whites” is that after a few years they may keep away from the pitfalls of the summer time qualifiers…
In any other case – if they’d not received the trophy – Olympiacos would have participated within the subsequent Convention League, beginning their duties on July 25, i.e. two months earlier than the second qualifying spherical of the competitors. It needs to be famous that participation within the Europa League presents bigger quantities than within the Convention, particularly after the brand new UEFA agreements that embody the brand new three-year cycle 2024-27 of the European competitions.
What does it predict? the brand new system
The brand new system for conducting European competitions sees every group going through two opponents from every capability group, one at residence and one away. The eight-odd matches will place every group someplace within the 36-team combination standings, with the goal of getting a ticket to the subsequent spherical.
An necessary distinction from final yr is that within the group stage of the Europa League if Olympiacos fails to complete within the prime eight (to qualify for the spherical of 16) or in positions 9-24 (that’s, to qualify for the playoffs for the spherical of 16) , then it is going to be excluded from Europe and won’t proceed within the Convention League, as was the case till this yr.
By profitable the trophy, Olympiacos is anticipated to rise impressively within the membership rankings, as till the ultimate it was in forty fifth place within the rating. As well as, it raised Greece to the coveted fifteenth place amongst nations within the corresponding UEFA rating. If the ultimate with Fiorentina went to penalties, Greece would stay sixteenth, behind Denmark, even when Piraeus lifted the trophy. Greece wished a victory for the “pink and whites” in common time or in further time to overhaul the Danes and that is the way it occurred. From the 2025-26 season, our nation will now have 5 European tickets at its disposal as an alternative of 4. The champion will compete within the Champions League 2nd qualifier within the champions’ path, the runners-up in the identical spherical within the non-champions’ path, the cup winners within the Europa League third qualifier and the third and fourth within the league within the Convention League 2nd qualifier.
The spectacular factor is that Greek soccer with all its troubles collected a complete of 11,400 factors this yr and equaled its greatest efficiency since 2001. And it’s outstanding that solely eight nations collected extra factors. This yr it even overtook the Netherlands and Portugal, nations which are within the prime ten of the rating and on the identical time lowered the gap from it…
Lastly, price mentioning is the truth that on Wednesday night time the tv viewing figures reached a excessive, with all of Greece watching the ultimate of the “pink and whites”. Extra particularly, the ultimate gathered a median viewership of 56.4% general and 58.2% among the many dynamic viewers between 15-54 years outdated. Within the particular person quarter 00.30-00.45, when the match was in further time, the viewership reached 70.9% in whole and 73.1% within the dynamic viewers…
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