700 Paris Saint-Germain employees share 118 million euros in the championship prize, the boss keeps his promise

In the early morning of June 1, 2025, when Paris Saint-Germain swept Inter Milan 5-0 to win the Champions League trophy, the smoke of this victory had not yet dissipated. Another decision by club chairman Nasser Algelefi caused an uproar in the global football world - all 700 employees won the Champions League championship prize, with a total amount of up to 118 million euros! This number not only far exceeds external expectations, but also makes Paris the first European football club to "inclusive" the Champions League dividend to grassroots employee club.

Paris Saint-Germain swept Inter 5-0 and the night sky of Allianz Arena Munich was ignited by blue and red fireworks. Although Mbappe has gone to the Bernabeu, the Parisians have won the first Champions League trophy in the history of the team with an epic victory, and have achieved the unprecedented "triple crown" achievement in the French Ligue 1.

French President Macron met with the Paris Saint-Germain player after winning. On the right is the club chairman Nasser

"Football is a collective art, and victory belongs to everyone." Nasser said at the pre-match mobilization meeting. This representative of the Qatar consortium, known for his savvy business acumen, rarely showed his warm side this time. In fact, as early as January's New Year's speech, he promised that "the players' bonuses will be shared with employees." Nasser promised all employees: "The Champions League prize money reserved for the players will be shared with them." Now that the promise is fulfilled, the club even spent a lot of money to take off the flight and sent 500 employees to the Munich finals. When the spotlight of the football world is always on the stars, Paris's move has allowed those "invisible heroes" to stand at the forefront of wealth distribution. It is in the environment where gold and dollar are supreme that Paris’s full-staff dividend plan is particularly precious. It is no accident that the club incorporates employees into the bonus distribution system - this comes from the "big family culture" advocated by Nasser. When most wealthy families only use sky-high contracts to bind stars, Paris regards cleaners, ticket attendants, and training ground gardeners as indispensable links in the success chain.

Nasel and Marginhos held up the trophy

The wealth code of the Champions League economy

The 2025 season's Champions League is like a precision-operated money printing machine. UEFA raised the total prize pool to a historical peak of 2.467 billion euros, soaring more than 400 million euros from last season. Under the new distribution rules, the 37.5% bonus is directly linked to the performance of the field: you can earn 2.1 million euros by winning a group match, and even if you tie the game, you will get 700,000 euros of "hard work fees". The knockout stage has been increased layer by layer, from 11 million euros in the top 16 to 18.5 million euros in the final, every step of promotion is accompanied by real money applause 4.

Paris's road to winning can be called "gold paved". The final defeat of Inter Milan directly brought 25 million euros championship prizes, plus the 4 million euros participation fee for the European Super Cup, and this night alone won 29 million euros. Coupled with previous league stage revenue, broadcast share and historical coefficient rewards, Paris' total Champions League revenue soared to 140 million euros this season - this number even surpassed the total revenue of the previous champion Real Madrid's entire Champions League journey (85.14 million euros). Although coach Enrique

, Inter Milan took the runner-up, but it also swept away a huge amount of 138 million euros. The two teams met in the final, which was essentially a dialogue between the capital strength of the giants: to motivate players, Inter Milan had long been revealed to have a 400,000 euro per person to win the championship; and Paris's 138 million euros accounted for, which is enough to cover the operating costs of a mid-tour club in the five major leagues. At the top of the pyramid, behind the cruel stratification of the football economy, is the growing economic gap in European football. When Paris employees were excited by the tens of millions of dollars, other events seemed extremely shabby: the total prize money of the Spanish Cup REE champion was only about 1.2 million euros, less than half of the single-game winning prize in the Champions League group stage. The AFC Elite Championship champion was US$10 million (about 7.15 million yuan), and it was only a fraction of the Champions League prize money, even if the UEFA Cup, which is also in the UEFA system, the total prize pool (465 million euros) and the UEFA Cup (235 million euros) are hard to see the Champions League match.

UEFA new regulations have been criticized for "robbing the poor and helping the rich." The 35% bonus is distributed according to market value and historical points coefficient, so that traditional wealthy families will have the advantage in nature. With its Ligue 1 top position and strong fan base, Paris easily took away more than 30 million euros by sharing the coefficient alone; and even if the minor league team advances in a surprise, they can only get the remaining part under the "value pillar" rule.