Approximately 9.5 million in total paid in costs and premiumsof which 3 million allocated to the team just for the victory in the final in Dublin. No, it wasn’t just income – 38 million in total, including stadium proceeds — for Atalanta who won the Europa League. Those, easily calculable, have been known for some time. The costs associated with triumph in Europe are more difficult to know. But now, with the bowls still in place, it is possible to present some accounts.
The final result is impressive: a quarter of the revenue received by the club in the second European tournament — only one defeat in 13 games — they flew away between costs (trips, hotels, celebrations) and prizes paid to the team, coach and staff. By staff I mean the entire group of collaborators (technicians and healthcare workers) to whom the companies normally recognize a bonus.
Dear, dearest Dublin
But let’s go step by step, starting from the end. So from the triumphal night in Dublin, from the 3-0 against Bayer Leverkusen: for winning the Europa League the club awarded the team a total bonus of around three million. We are at around 100 thousand euros per player, plus the bonus for Gasperini and his entire entourage. Atalanta had agreed on three solutions with the team: a prize for the double victory in the two finals (Europa League and Italian Cup), one for Dubino and one for Roma. But here the theme is Europe, and in any case it was lost in Rome. So let’s stop in Dublin. To clarify that the costs incurred for the unforgettable experience in Ireland must be added to the final prize for the team. Which includes flights, three days in a hotel, celebrations.
Charter, hotel, steward
The club, for example, organised, in addition to everything relating to the away first team two charter flights for the relatives of managers and players, the collaborators, the micro-cosmos of the Percassi group. For example, there were Under 23 coaches and players, observers and VIPs (Mayor Gori), stewards. Yes, because in Dublin each of the two finalists also had to bring approx 25 stewards of those usually on duty at the stadium during home matches to optimize fan management. It was a UEFA provision. It worked. But not only: Atalanta also rented a hundred rooms in a hotel close to that of the team for the players’ families and the people closest to the club. And then the celebrations: lasted until the morning, in the retreat in Ireland, with obvious costs which the company obviously covered. The overall figure leads to around 4.5 million euros spent on the joys of Dublin.
Before the final: 5 million
And that’s not all, because before Dublin there have been six more away games to organize (and pay for) for the team: twice in Lisbon, Graz, Krakow, Liverpool and Marseille. And, again, bonuses were paid for the various passages of the shifts. The first agreed at the beginning of the season for overcoming the elimination group (with the addition of the victory, centered, in the group), then the awards up for grabs for each direct elimination. With the match against Liverpool certainly not bringing any savings: it’s easy to offer a substantial prize if you face the Reds and on paper you have little chance of moving forward. But if the team then achieves the feat (it did!), the bonus must be paid, and the overall expenses increase. In total we are at around 2.5 million in total costs (travel, hotels, etc.) and another 2.5 million in total premiums. In total 9.5 million, out of 38 collected. A quarter of the revenue. Not a little.
But it is easy to add that i Percassi they are ready to BIS. In the Champions League from September we will start from 46 million in guaranteed revenueto which to add the prizes up for grabs for each match and each round: let’s hope that the calculations, in a year’s time, will lead to much higher costs for Europe.
