LEEDS
2005-06/In Prem 2006-07 (*)
Tickets £10m/£18m
Merchandise £4m/£6m
All other comm income** £9.5m/£12m
Central pot & TV £1m/£36m***
Parachute £6.5m -
Total earnings £31m/£72m
VALUE OF PLAY-OFF WIN TO LEEDS: £41M
WATFORD
2005-06/In Prem 2006-07 (*)
Tickets £3.4m/£5m
Merchandise £850,000/£1.5m
All other comm income** £3.25m/£5m
Central pot & TV £1m/£36m***
Total earnings £8.5m/£47.5m
VALUE OF PLAY-OFF WIN TO WATFORD: £39M
* Worse-case scenario, finishing bottom, immediate relegation.
** All other commercial income including sponsorship, catering, perimeter advertising, etc.
*** Minimum £18m from PL in one season (from equal share of PL pot, facility fees for live games, and prizemoney), plus parachute payments of about £18m over two years, circa £9m in 2007-08, and about £9m in 2008-09.
If Leeds win, they will incur costs of £6.8m triggered by promotion: £5m to bondholders who leant money in the Ridsdale era, and £1.8m to Middlesbrough for Michael Ricketts. These are payable only if Leeds go up.
How other sports measure up
* £39m-£42m FOOTBALL: Winner of 2006 Championship play-off final
Value of extra income from a minimum of one season in the Premiership
* £21m BOXING: Evander Holyfield's prize for beating Mike Tyson in 1997
Holyfield earned a basic $33m, and his opponent Tyson $30m from the richest fight in boxing history
* £10m FOOTBALL: Qualifying for the Champions' League proper Value of income and additional prizemoney from the minimum of six group games
* £10m FOOTBALL: Qualifying for the football World Cup finals
Value of Fifa expenses and minimum prizemoney
*£2m AMERICAN FOOTBALL:
Super Bowl winners
Value of combined winners' cheques (Other revenue pooled and shared by all the NFL sides)
*£1.9m HORSE RACING: Dubai World Cup Winner's cheque from the single most valuable race from an overall purse of $6m (£3.2m)
*£1.2m TENNIS: Kim Clijster's win in the 2005 US Open
The Belgian received $2.2m, including a bonus for also winning the US Open Series, to collect the biggest single prize in the history of women's sport
*£1m GOLF: HSBC World Matchplay, Wentworth
Single biggest pay cheque in golf
*£265,000 ATHLETICS: Golden League Series
Potential bonus for an individual athlete winning their event at all six meetings
*£255,000 CYCLING: Winner's money for 2005 Tour de France Lance Armstrong's prize