The coronavirus pandemic has kept regular fans out of stadiums for about 5 months straight now. Owing to the absence of spectators, football clubs all across the world have reported significant financial losses for last season as well as the ongoing season.
Considering that the primary source for football teams is the matchday revenue that is collected by ticket sales it is quite easy to see why clubs are struggling financially. Currently, the only source of income for clubs on match days is through the TV broadcast of games.
However, the Premier League’s attempt to capitalise on this might just backfire for the most-watched League in world football.
This is because the Premier League is broadcasting all of its games on TV, but fans will have to pay for each of the games individually, at least in the United Kingdom, the home of the Premier League.
In other words, the Premier League has adopted a pay-per-view concept for all of the matches that are going to be broadcasted in the month of October, for the 20/21 season.
A subscription to Sky Sports costs £34 in England whereas a subscription to BT Sports costs £25 per month.
The Premier League has never truly broadcasted every single match played across a weekend but is now choosing to break the rule to give the clubs their share of matchday revenue and minimise losses as much as possible.
Considering the expensive prices paid by United Kingdom fans to watch the Premier League already, this decision is bound to not go down well among the supporters.
The silver lining of it all is that it is confirmed by the Premier League that all matchday revenue acquired by pay-per-view will be given directly to the clubs to minimise the financial losses and facilitate their running despite these hard times.
So, patrons can support their clubs by watching their matches on TV to compensate for their absence in the stands.
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