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EFL's New £595M Deal With Sky

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As the title suggests.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46267320

A 35% increase on the current deal. Question is, will we see anymore of the increase of the money?

It seems 21 out of the 24 Championship clubs were opposed to it, but doesn't mention the opinions of League One or League Two clubs.
 
Why can't the EFL do a deal for League 1 and 2 separately from the championship? Sky clearly don't care about League 1 & 2. If they were separate BT could put a bid in, maybe contribute more money than we'll get from Sky and with no championship football to show they'd have more incentive to promote League 1 & 2 football than Sky have.
 
Why can't the EFL do a deal for League 1 and 2 separately from the championship? Sky clearly don't care about League 1 & 2. If they were separate BT could put a bid in, maybe contribute more money than we'll get from Sky and with no championship football to show they'd have more incentive to promote League 1 & 2 football than Sky have.

Because if you have two deals the Championship clubs would want to be paid what they get from their TV rights and the League 1 and 2 clubs would get paid peanuts.
 
Will this deal affect the streaming on ifollow for midweek games?

No shouldn't do in theory, although the odds have been slashed slightly, as they will show more EFL matches. Whether we get picked for a televised event is another matter.

So Basically it will remain the same as the current rules, it can be shown on i follow as long as it isn't being shown on Sky TV.
 
According to Twitter, the deal works out an extra £650,000 for Championship clubs a year & an extra £120,000 for division 2 clubs a year.

No mention of the added financial gain to Division One clubs, but looking at those to figures, but as a medium, I would imagine it would be an extra increase of around the £250,000 - £300,000 mark???

Edit... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/7767831/championship-rebels-risk-destroying-smaller-clubs/


So in short,

Championship clubs will receive £2.96M (up by 27%)
League One clubs will receive £884,000 (up by 25%)
League Two clubs will receive £613,000 (up by 26%)


If you look at the % increase alone, without adding on any of the majority of tv revenue championship clubs get from additional viewing, larger attendances etc, it does seem obvious that the gulf grows further between the Championship and Divisions One & Two. On that basis, it would take us nearly 4 years in order to earn the same as what a Championship side would do in just a single season.

They may as well just change the name of the Championship to the "Premier League 2" & stop mugging us all off.
 
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Understandably the lower league clubs would prefer the stability inherent in a new 5 year deal, but therapy just grow,larger from the Premiership, through to the Championship and down to our level. Around £3 m to Championship clubs , compared to £100 m plus for the Premiership
. So we would get £884k if n league 1 next year, plus Current £ 645,000 solidarity payment from Prem league? Which may increase also. Championship clubs also currently get £100,000 for hosting a live to natch compared to our £30 k

The £1.5 m approx above for us doesn't go very far towards even meeting our 2016 wage bill of £4m. No wonder 20 league one clubs make a loss!!
 
Shaun Harvey will step down as chief executive of the English Football League at the end of the season, the organisation has confirmed.

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