This is a follow up to some questions that arose after I mentioned the income generated by the Champions League.

Here are a series of links that you might find interesting. UEFA distributes Champions League money based on a  number of different criteria including final position, television revenue generated in the country of each entrant(s), points gianed in group play, and performances in the qualifying stages. It also looks like this money is distributed through the national associations which can be confusing. It is not wrong then to say that the national associations receive money from the Champions League, however, the national associations have to them move the money to the clubs.

UEFA also distributes money generated by the European Championship with all countries benefiting at some level.

As the FIFA link shows each national association received $1M per year in the last 4 year cycle - one of the prinmary reasons why small countries vote for Sepp Blatter. the GOAL project funding is another.

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=16384/n
ewsid=405660.html

http://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/405652.pdf

http://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/405651.pdf

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/Keytopics/kind=16384/n
ewsId=219264.html

http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pdf/europe/issue
9/EU9%20Lennart%20Johansson%20ATL.pdf

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/Keytopics/kind=64/news
Id=489171.html

http://www.fifa.com/en/media/index/0,1369,12712
9,00.html Goal Program

http://www.fifa.com/documents/fifa/publication/
2005_FIFA_financial_report_EN.pdf  - FIFA page 35 each national association received $1M per year over the 4 years.

With the amount of "guaranteed" money being spread around to "national"  associations you can see one of the reasons why Gibraltar is so eager to join UEFA/FIFA.