ZURICH (Reuters) - Manchester City were named as last season's biggest Champions League earners on Tuesday, with the semi-finalists raking in slightly more than champions Real Madrid, according to a UEFA report. Amid increasing concern at the growing financial gap within European football, the report also illustrated the gulf in payments received by the top clubs and the rest. This was an increase of 315 million euros on the previous season. City received a total of 83.85 million euros, Real Madrid 80.07 million euros and Juventus 72.26 million euros, even though the Serie A side were beaten in the round of 16. The report showed that market-pool values varied enormously, ranging between 52.93 million euros for Juventus to just 1.29 million euros for FC Astana, the champions of Kazakhstan.

Source: The Star November 01, 2016 20:21 UTC