Legia Warszawa won its second victory in the league phase of the Conference League. After a 1-0 triumph over Real Betis at home, Legia won 3-0 away against Serbian TSC Backa Topola. After the first half, Goncalo Feio's team was leading 1-0 after Bartosz Kapustka's goal, and after the break Luquinhas and Kacper Chodyna each scored a goal. “Let them continue to score points like this in Europe and we will soon be seriously competing for a new Champions League” – wrote one of the experts on the X portal after the meeting. “Today's matches are free points as a reward for the first round,” added Jakub Seweryn from Sport.pl.
At the same time, Legia has broken its record in terms of the number of away wins in European cups, as it records a streak of four consecutive victories. The victory of Legia and Jagiellonia Białystok (2-0 over Moldovan Petrocub) meant that Poland increased its achievements in the UEFA national ranking by 1 point (currently 28,625 points). Currently, Poland is two points behind 18th place Israel.
At the moment, Legia is third in the Conference League league stage table with all points and a goal balance of 4:0. Only Chelsea and Fiorentina are higher than the capital team, having scored more goals. How much did Legia Warszawa earn from UEFA for winning the league phase of the Conference League?
Here are Legia's earnings for winning the league phase of the Conference League. Solid money
As we can read on the UEFA website, the team receives PLN 400,000 for winning the league phase of the Conference League. euro – exactly PLN 1.737 million. In this way, Legia has already earned EUR 4.495 million (PLN 19.527 million), counting the competition from the beginning of the qualifying rounds, as well as including both matches already in the league phase. In this way, Legia is getting closer to the amount it earned in the previous season of the Conference League.
Legia then reached the 1/16 finals, but lost 2-6 on aggregate to Norwegian Molde. Then Legia's earnings in this competition stopped at EUR 5.565 million (PLN 24.17 million). It is worth adding that after the revolution of the European cups, teams receive the so-called bonus share (EUR 28,000 for the worst team in the 36-team table, over EUR 1 million for the winner). Teams from places 1-8 that advance directly to the 1/8 finals will receive PLN 400,000. euro bonus. In the case of clubs ranked 9-16, the amount is twice as small.
Legia will also play in the league phase of the Conference League against Dynamo Minsk (November 7), Omonia Nicosia (November 28), Lugano (December 12) and Djurgarden (December 19).