The 2025/26 Premier League season finished on Sunday, 24 May 2026, with Arsenal winning the league. Softfootball gathers how much some clubs earned.
Based on information provided by several sources, we expect payouts to England’s top 20 clubs exceeded £3bn for the first time.
Leading the way, naturally, are newly crowned champions Arsenal Football Club. Their first league title in over two decades generated an expected £198.7m in prize money.
The overall uplift in distributions to clubs, driven by ever‑growing overseas TV rights deals, meant almost all clubs improved their domestic league earnings compared to a year ago.
Here is how much prize money each Premier League team earned 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 have been a staple of the Premier League since its 1992 inception, but they reached new heights this year. Each spot up the table was worth £3.76m to clubs, a 21% increase on the previous high (2022/23: £3.11m) as Arsenal earned £75.2m in merit payments alone.
