How much did Man City's rule breaking cost your team? — SkimNews
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- BBC Sport calculated the total financial impact on other clubs at £799.5m — broken down as £188.2m in Premier League placing money, £349.7m in relegation costs, £217.8m in missed Champions League prize money and £43.8m tied to domestic cups.
- Manchester City themselves earned £1.17bn across competitions during the period, including £812.3m from Premier League prize money and broadcast revenue, and £363.4m from the Champions League.
- Tottenham Hotspur emerged as the most impacted club with a £119.9m net loss, driven by four seasons of finishing just outside the Champions League places while City earned £148.2m and Spurs collected only £29.9m from the Europa League.
- Hull City ranked second at £99m after two relegations during the period, with £93.78m attributed to lost top-flight status and parachute-payment shortfalls, plus £5.2m in place money.
- Liverpool were assessed a £48.5m impact, including £37.8m tied to losing the 2015-16 EFL Cup final on penalties to City — a defeat that cost them a Europa League berth won instead by Manchester United.
- Former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino said in the wake of the verdict: 'We have lived through a period of deception. No type of punishment will make it possible to repair what was done.'
- Manchester City continue to deny wrongdoing and have appealed the verdict, meaning the BBC Sport figures remain hypothetical until any compensation framework is set — the analysis explicitly frames itself as measuring 'chance' rather than provable losses.
Why it matters: The BBC framework gives 35 rival clubs a concrete number to cite in any future compensation fight, but the piece deliberately stops short of saying any single team 'definitely' missed out — keeping the figures as a measure of probability, not proof. That distinction matters because City's appeal is still active, and the £799.5m figure could harden from speculation into a reference point for damages claims if the guilty verdict stands.
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