Football clubs in first, second flights to receive €4.6M from UEFA for training
UEFA will distribute €4.6 million for 31 Portuguese clubs that did not reach the group stages of European competitions in the 2020/21 season.
The Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP) is to redistribute around €4.6 million to clubs in the first and second flights, the Primeira Liga and Liga Portugal 2, from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) solidarity fund, to be used in training young players, the organisation has announced.
In a statement posted on its official website on Monday night, the LPFP said that “UEFA will distribute the amount of €4,578,761” for 31 Portuguese clubs – 15 of them in the top flight and 16 in the second – that did not reach the group stages of European competitions in the 2020/21 season.
Each of these clubs is to receive nearly €148,000, exclusively for investment in the football training of each club.
In this way, UEFA is distributing €400,000 more among Portuguese clubs than last year, when €4.187 million was distributed among 29 of them, resulting in an inflow of €145,000 for each club.
FC Porto, Benfica and Sporting de Braga were the only clubs in Portugal that were not granted any money from the solidarity fund, since they took part in the group stages of the two European club competitions.
Porto competed in the group stage of the Champions League, reaching the quarter-finals of that most lucrative UEFA competition, while Benfica and Braga were in the group stage of the Europa League, in which they reached the round of 16 – unlike Sporting and Rio Ave, who were knocked out in the preliminary stages and therefore will also now receive money from the UEFA solidarity fund.
