[Football] Finances of the FA Cup

[Official Old Man]

Winning team gets £1 million. Losers get £500,000.
Will half a million cover either teams expences for the game. I'm not talking about wages or the general running of the club but expenses just for this game.
There will be a luxury hotel somewhere with 30+ rooms, coach travel and other unsponsored things just for this game.
Yes, the club recoup a lot in club sales of shirts and memorabilia, but is half a million really worth Man Utd getting out of bed for? Bet they aren't staying at the Premier Inn next door, in fact knowing them they'll fly down in a plane that started it's journey in Scotland.

 

[spence]

Why would we need to stay in a hotel?

 

[nwgull]

Jesus, how much do you normally pay for a hotel room?!

That 500K is just the prize money anyway. Fairly sure we get 45% of the profits on ticket sales.

 

[atomised]

Winning team gets £1 million. Losers get £500,000.
Will half a million cover either teams expences for the game. I'm not talking about wages or the general running of the club but expenses just for this game.
There will be a luxury hotel somewhere with 30+ rooms, coach travel and other unsponsored things just for this game.
Yes, the club recoup a lot in club sales of shirts and memorabilia, but is half a million really worth Man Utd getting out of bed for? Bet they aren't staying at the Premier Inn next door, in fact knowing them they'll fly down in a plane that started it's journey in Scotland.

all joking aside I believe they flew straight to London from their European jolly

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Winning team gets £1 million. Losers get £500,000.
Will half a million cover either teams expences for the game. I'm not talking about wages or the general running of the club but expenses just for this game.
There will be a luxury hotel somewhere with 30+ rooms, coach travel and other unsponsored things just for this game.
Yes, the club recoup a lot in club sales of shirts and memorabilia, but is half a million really worth Man Utd getting out of bed for? Bet they aren't staying at the Premier Inn next door, in fact knowing them they'll fly down in a plane that started it's journey in Scotland.

Yes.

 

[loz]

There is a saying that goes.

“ you know the cost of everything but the value of nothing”

Yes I know I am an old boy but to win the FA cup would pretty much be the icing on the cake.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Why would we need to stay in a hotel?

clubs often book hotels for pre-match briefing etc. Maybe not bedrooms, but conference rooms etc.

 

[VAL1850]

London teams playing at the Amex always staying in the hotel overnight, due to same pre match routine wether match is relatively local or up in Newcastle etc....

 

[maffew]

Probably go missing anyway so irrelevant how much it is

 

[dazzer6666]

Why would we need to stay in a hotel?

We’re even doing it for home games apparently - all about matchday routine not varying. Definitely in a hotel this morning - interview with Barber on the radio earlier from the ‘team hotel where the players are having breakfas’.

 

[Triggaaar]

Yes I know I am an old boy but to win the FA cup would pretty much be the icing on the cake.

Unfortunately it's just the semi-final

 

[Weststander]

TV money and ticket sales must shirley exceed prize money?

 

[Coldeanseagull]

The prestige and global exposure is worth far more than the prize money

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

We’ve already won over half a million in prize money for the Fa Cup run this season. You get prize money for each round. Our QF win paid £450,000 alone. We get £500k if we lose today or win and we get either another £2 or £3 million depending on the result of the final.

So worse case scenario is over a million in prize money from the competition for the season. Sure that’s more than covered the cost of a hotel for the night.