Liverpool made £11million more from the Premier League last season than they did the previous year.
While Liverpool are currently top of the table this season, the 2022/23 campaign was a disappointing one for Jurgen Klopp and his side as they ended up without silverware and without Champions League football after finishing fifth.
It came off the back of a 2021/22 season where Liverpool went close to winning an unprecedented quadruple, finishing second in the League, claiming glory in both the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, and finishing as runners-up in the Champions League. For that 2021/22 campaign, Liverpool pulled in £151.9m in a season where they appeared on live broadcasts 29 times, as opposed to 28 times in 2022/23.
But the improvement in the broadcasting deals kicked in for Premier League clubs and raised finances across the board: champions Manchester City earned £176.2m; second-placed Arsenal bagged £172.2m; Manchester United in third claimed £168.3m, and fourth-placed Newcastle United picked up £164.3m – a sum £37.6m higher than they earned the previous season when they finished 11th.
Liverpool bagged £162.9m from finishing fifth, with their sum made up of £79.2m in equal share across the domestic and international broadcast rights; facility fees of £24.5m (joint second highest) in relation to how often they appeared on live broadcasts (28); merit payments in relation to their final position of £49.9m across both domestic and international markets, and a slice of £9.4m in commercial revenue equally shared across the member clubs.
The £11m increase despite a season of struggle, while welcome, was expected due to the new media deals being in place, with the increase in the value of overseas rights to £5bn over three years significant. Had the same dispersal of funds been in place for the 2021/22 campaign then the Reds would have earned around £173m.
Liverpool are in a title race this season, and Champions League football is very much back in focus for next season, all of which points to a significant uptick in revenue concerning Premier League income. The 2022/23 accounts, however, which will likely be published before the end of this month, while robust, will be a little less than hoped for.
