£4M UEFA BOOST FOR PREMIERSHIP CLUBS

Scotland’s top-flight clubs will share a record £4million windfall thanks to Celtic’s Champions League exploits last season. The cash – to be distributed to the 11 other Ladbrokes Premiership teams today – comes after Brendan Rodgers’ side qualified for the group stages 12 months ago. They will each be given around £370,000 in Uefa solidarity payments, the largest such sum paid out to Scottish clubs. It is more than double the £1.8m received last year and 10 times the total of £400,000 paid out in 2015. Neil Doncaster, chief executive of the SPFL, said: “This is very welcome news and a further sign that clubs prospering in European football is a boon not just for them but for others in the Ladbrokes Premiership, too.”