Trophy and medals
Each year, the winning team is presented with the European Champion
Clubs' Cup, the current version of which has been awarded since 1967.
Any team that wins the Champions League three years in a row or five
times overall wins the right to retain a full-sized replica of the
trophy (UEFA retains the original at all times). Six clubs have earned
this honour: Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Milan, Liverpool and
Barcelona.
Since then instead the club which wins three years in a row or five
overall receives a conmemorative badge to wear permanently on their
uniform.
The current trophy is 74 cm (29 in) tall and made of silver,
weighing 11 kg (24 lb). It was designed by Jörg Stadelmann, a jeweller
from Bern, Switzerland, after the original was given to Real Madrid in 1966 in recognition of their six titles to date, and cost 10,000 Swiss francs.
As of the 2012–13 season, 40 gold medals are presented to the Champions League winners, and 40
silver medals to the runners-up.
Prize money
As of 2018–19, the fixed amount of prize money paid to the clubs is as follows:
- Preliminary qualifying round: €230,000
- First qualifying round: €280,000
- Second qualifying round: €380,000
- Third qualifying round: €480,000 (Only for clubs eliminated from the champions path, since clubs eliminated from the league path qualify directly for the UEFA Europa League group stage and therefore benefit from its distribution system.)
- Base fee for group stage: €15,250,000
- Group match victory: €2,700,000
- Group match draw: €900,000
- Round of 16: €9,500,000
- Quarter-finals: €10,500,000
- Semi-finals: €12,000,000
- Losing finalist: €15,000,000
- Winning the Final: €19,000,000
This means that at best, a club can earn €82,450,000 of prize money
under this structure, not counting shares of the qualifying rounds,
play-off round and/or the market pool.
A large part of the distributed revenue from the UEFA Champions
League is linked to the "market pool", the distribution of which is
determined by the value of the television market in each country. For
the 2014–15 season, Juventus,
who were the runners-up, earned nearly €89.1 million in total, of which
€30.9 million was prize money, compared with the €61.0 million earned
by Barcelona, who won the tournament and were awarded €36.4 million in
prize money.
