As the world's most commercially valuable league, the Premier League's broadcast rights have always been at a high price. According to a number of British media reports, the Premier League broadcast fee will rise sharply in the coming period, reaching a total of 10.4 billion pounds.
According to the latest news, the Premier League official also confirmed the news at this week's shareholders' meeting, and in the next three seasons, the league's overseas broadcast fees will exceed the British domestic for the first time. From 2022 to 2025, premier league domestic broadcast rights will be represented by three media outlets, Sky Sports, BT Sports and Amazon, who will pay a total of £5.1 billion for this. The reason for the sharp increase in overseas broadcast fees is mainly due to the fact that the Premier League officials have signed new broadcast contracts with overseas countries.
According to the Times, after reaching a new contract with ESPN, the Premier League's broadcast fees in the US have reached a price of 2 billion pounds for 6 years. At the same time, the Premier League is also actively exploring other commercial territories, and new broadcast contracts in Central and North America and Asian countries such as India have also brought huge revenues.
The sharp increase in broadcast fees is also a potential increase in the revenue of Clubs in the Premier League, according to the Analysis of the Post, the future revenue of each Premier League club will also increase next season, and after the start of the new broadcast contract, all clubs participating in the Premier League will receive more than 100 million pounds of broadcast share, which is equivalent to most of the operating costs of some small and medium-sized teams.
After the completion of the Premier League's broadcast negotiations, the official is considering the broadcast contract negotiations of other lower leagues, and according to the concept of the future business plan, it is hoped to establish a full-level broadcast fee sharing and provide sharing mechanism protection for relegated teams.