Aston Villa earn fresh prize money boost after setting up PSG quarter-final - Iqraa news

Aston Villa have enjoyed a lucrative Champions League campaign

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Aston Villa are through to the last eight of the Champions League after beating Club Brugge 6-1 on aggregate in the round of 16.

Villa earned a two-goal lead after winning 3-1 in Belgium last week and were playing against 10 men for the majority of the second leg.

Kyriani Sabbe was sent off early in Wednesday night's clash after denying Marcus Rashford a clear goal-scoring opportunity.

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Emi Martinez spotted Rashford's run behind the Brugge backline, before he was brought down just outside the box.

It took until the 50th minute for Villa to break their opponents down as substitutes Leon Bailey and Marco Asensio combined.

The Spaniard scored his second of the night after Ian Maatsen turned in Morgan Rogers’ cross to initially double the lead.

Villa have now set-up a quarter-final tie with French champions Paris Saint-Germain, with Villa Park hosting the second leg.

After qualifying for the Champions League round of 16 via an eighth-placed league phase finish, it was revealed by BirminghamLive that Villa had generated a total of £75m from their European campaign before facing Brugge.

That huge figure includes gate receipts and income from UEFA's newly created value pillar on top of the £42m which the club will be awarded in prize money.

The first chunk of money Villa received from their Champions League campaign was a league phase participation fee of £15.7million, before they won five matches worth £1.77m each, plus a draw against Juventus, earning a cool £590k.

Qualification for the last 16 is worth a whopping £9.3m, while each position in the table is worth £232k, meaning the club that finishes 36th earned that figure with an additional £232k added for every higher ranking after all eight matches.

Villa finished in eighth, so they secured £6.8m through their standing, while taking in nearly £10m in additional revenue for making the last 16.

There is also a handy £1.7m bonus coming their way for finishing in a position between 1-9 in the league phase table.

Beyond the £42m earned in prize money, Villa also made around £15m in gate receipts from their league phase fixtures.

They earned an additional £16m from UEFA's value pillar, which combines the market pool and coefficients to distribute money to clubs as shaped by the size of their domestic TV deal and historic performances in Europe.

Villa will now receive an additional £10.5m in prize money having made it through to the quarter-finals, while reaching the semi-finals would be worth around an additional £12.4m.

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