Prize money for this season,how is it broken up??

[eamo1]

did i hear properly that its in excess of 1 million,this cant be right is it???also how much does each get does anyone know,winner would probably get around 300k yes???

[gustavo]

http://www.irishfootballonline.com/news_story.php?newsid=6016

[A face]

Confirmed Television games
Friday 9 Mar - Bohemians v Drogheda United - RTE 2
Friday 16 Mar - Cork City v Galway United - RTE 2
Friday 23 Mar - Derry City v St. Patrick's Athletic - RTE 2
Friday 30 Mar - Drogheda United v Derry City - Setanta
Monday 9 Apr - Derry City v Cork City - Setanta

2007 prizemoney
eircom League of Ireland
Premier Division
1. 225,000
2. 100,000
3. 50,000
4. 25,000
5. 15,000
6. 12,000
7. 9,500
8. 7,500
9. 6,000

First Division
1. 50,000
2. 30,000
3. 10,000
4. 6,000
5. 4,000

League Cup
winners: 10,000
runners up: 5,000
losing semi-finalists: 2,500 (each)

Fair Play (in each division)
1. 4,500
2. 2,000

Its an improvement alright but i still think the TV money is completely crap and the prize money is not distributed evenly enough given its the only money made available to clubs from the league.

[superblues]

Good to see the league getting decent coverage on national tv!! I just think there should be certain times games should not be shown. Like i cant watch any of those games cause Waterford play every friday night.

In england it is illegal for any pub or tv station to show a match between 2.45 and 5.15. This means that people have to go to the match to see it. Brings the crowds back.

[A face]

Good to see the league getting decent coverage on national tv!! I just think there should be certain times games should not be shown. Like i cant watch any of those games cause Waterford play every friday night.

This is something that the TV companies so be copping on to, and the league so be fully aware of this too. It makes common sense but ...


In england it is illegal for any pub or tv station to show a match between 2.45 and 5.15. This means that people have to go to the match to see it. Brings the crowds back.

Serious ?? Its a good idea to be fair .... are you sure though? I have never heard of that before.

[superblues]

Serious ?? Its a good idea to be fair .... are you sure though? I have never heard of that before.[/QUOTE]


I was meant to add "ON SATURDAYS" after those times, sorry about that!!

And its illegal for pubs to show matches even on foreign channels over in England between those times. Thats how RTE can show then. The 12.45 game always finishes just befor 2.45 and all the 3.00 games finish as Prem Plus coverage starts.

Its a 100% fact!! Just dont ask me to back it up with where its writin cause i cant. Heard it on a BBC program awhile back.

[incident]

Every single national association is allowed to specify a a certain number of hours when any live football isn't allowed to be shown.

A list of them is here:
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/news/kind=8192/newsid=19817.html

You'll notice that Ireland isn't on that list. I'm pretty certain that the FAI struck a deal with Sky a few years ago, so that the FAI recieve a fee in return for not blocking any live English games. I assume that's still in place.

[Gaillimh Al]

How can coming 2nd in the 1st division get you more money than 5th in the Premier. If Galway came 5th that would be a great 1st season and then at the end of it to get 15,000 less than say Finn Harps or Cobh. Strange to say the least.

[Louth4sam]

No stranger then finishing 3rd in the first gets you promoted to the premier :p

[A face]

No stranger then finishing 3rd in the first gets you promoted to the premier :p

But it wasn't just finishing third. That wasn't the only factor. And technically they weren't promoted, they were invited to a new league after the old one was disbanded.

[Poor Student]

How can coming 2nd in the 1st division get you more money than 5th in the Premier. If Galway came 5th that would be a great 1st season and then at the end of it to get 15,000 less than say Finn Harps or Cobh. Strange to say the least.

It prevents the type of financial gap widening you see in England between the Championship and the Premiership. It'll give newly promoted clubs some sort of fighting chance.

[Jerry The Saint]

But it wasn't just finishing third. That wasn't the only factor. And technically they weren't promoted, they were invited to a new league after the old one was disbanded.

But don't you think that that's strange:confused:

[pineapple stu]

Thought I'd heard the million mark mentioned alright, but the above only comes to E576,500. Where's the difference coming from?

[passerrby]

No stranger then finishing 3rd in the first gets you promoted to the premier :p

:( please someone anyone make the bad go away

[pete]

Thought I'd heard the million mark mentioned alright, but the above only comes to E576,500. Where's the difference coming from?

Was the million mentioned as "spent on the league"? i.e. the other 500k is spent on advertising.

Is the money that teams receive for been shown on tv included in those numbers?

[pineapple stu]

For been shown?

Can't imagine it is. It's not coming from the FAI, but from the TV stations. Not that that would stop the FAI claiming credit... Anyway, even at 50 games @ E5,000 each, that's only E250,000, which is still only half the gap.

I think the advertising budget was about E400k, which could be what they're talking about. Spin, as usual...

[Schumi]

Would the €1m figure include cup prize money?

[Poor Student]

There's figures of over half a million being mooted about in the media as the league winner's prize, taking into account the CL and Setanta money that will eventually come as a result.:rolleyes:

[A face]

But don't you think that that's strange:confused:

Not really .... all 22 clubs agreed on it, thats what they wanted ..... and its what they got.

[pete]

There's figures of over half a million being mooted about in the media as the league winner's prize, taking into account the CL and Setanta money that will eventually come as a result.:rolleyes:

Has Ollie Byrne already got a column in the Star?

:eek:

[pineapple stu]

Not really .... all 22 clubs agreed on it, thats what they wanted ..... and its what they got.
Let's not go there again...

[A face]

Let's not go there again...

Agreed !! ;)