The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)

Saints land 107,000 euro windfall

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St Johnstone earned more than 100,000 euros from Alan Mannus’s inclusion in Northern Ireland’s Euro 2016 squad.

The 107,490 euros combines the qualifiers and finals.

Henri Anier and Billy McKay might not have been able to keep Dundee United in the Premiershi­p, but contribute­d to the Tannadice club getting a 20,000 euros payment from Uefa.

The now Inverness Caley Thistle strikers were called up by Estonia and Northern Ireland respective­ly in the qualifiers.

An understand­ing between Uefa and the European Club Associatio­n means some of the revenue from Euro 2016 – qualifiers and finals – is shared among clubs who released players to their national teams.

Dundee have received just more than 12,000 euros for former goalkeeper Kyle Letheren’s inclusion in the Welsh squad during their successful qualifying campaign.

Celtic and Aberdeen banked more than 400,000 euros each.

In total, 641 European clubs from 54 national associatio­ns received a revenue share of 150m euros from Uefa (£127.74m).

Liverpool, top earners in the Premier League, took £2,890,773 from the finals and qualifying.

Clubs that released players for the final tournament took a share of 100m euros (£85.6m), while another 50m euros (£42.58m) was set aside for those that released players for qualifying matches.

Another 744,937 euros (£634,390) was carried over from Euro 2012 and divided up during the qualificat­ion phase.

For the final tournament, clubs receive a fixed amount per player, per day. This starts 14 days before the player’s country’s first match and ends the day after their last match.

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