A total of 6 English clubs have participated in this season's Champions League - a record for a country. Among them, all 6 teams passed the group stage. 5 teams including Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham went straight to the round of 16, when they were in the top 8 of the group stage. Newcastle is ranked 12th and will be seeded in the play-offs.
Six English teams are expected to earn a total of at least 500 million Euros (600 million USD) in prize money from UEFA. The five teams that directly qualified for the round of 16 all received an additional 2 million Euros/team.
According to estimates by economic experts, each English club participating in the Champions League this season can earn nearly 100 million Euros. Prize money for them will increase if they reach the semi-finals and finals. It is known that the prize money for the Champions League this season is 2.5 billion Euros. But with the dominance of clubs from the Premier League, they will account for a large proportion of prize money.
In the group stage, Arsenal is the only team to win all 8 matches. Meanwhile, Liverpool and Tottenham are ranked third and fourth respectively despite not playing well in the Premier League.
Liverpool have won 4 of their last 5 Champions League matches - including matches against Real Madrid and Inter, in which they have only won 4 of their last 13 Premier League matches. Tottenham is currently ranked 14th in the Premier League table.
Even the "weakest" English team in the Champions League to date, Newcastle, also finished the group stage in a higher position than 3/5 of the Spanish teams, 3/4 of the Italian teams and 3/4 of the teams from Germany.
