Last year we attempted to quantify the money other SPL clubs were denied by Rangers improperly registering football players – on the assumption that being found guilty of improperly registering football players was actually worthy of punishment.
Below is an excerpt of the article and figures:
Some of the losses were easier to calculate than others. For example, it was easy to calculate that when Rangers won the title in 2009 with improperly registered players, earning automatic qualification to the Champions League group stage, they denied Celtic £15m European earnings, plus £340k SPL prize money. Other losses are less clear, specifically when a club was denied a place in a qualifying round for the Champions League or Uefa Cup, which they may or may not have progressed from.
We have established three figures for each club in the SPL during the season just finished, to cover the period from 2000 to 2012:
Minimum loss:
The absolute minimum each club was denied from European and SPL prize money as a result of Rangers finishing above them with ineligible players.
Weighted loss:
The figure based on Scottish clubs gaining entry to Champions League/Europa League (Uefa Cup) group stages from 20% of their qualifying campaigns (which is slightly less than trend).
Maximum loss:
The maximum a club could have achieved if it qualified for the European group stage it was denied entry to.
Out estimates take no account of the subsequent effect money has on future years. For example, If Celtic earned an additional £15m from entering the Champions League group stage in 2009-10 their league challenge for that season would have been £15m stronger, and Rangers £15m weaker, potentially resulting in consequences in future years.
This multiplier effect would have benefited Celtic but it would be likely to have a greater effect on other clubs, some of whom would be denied the enormous percentage increase in budget automatic qualification to European group stages would have brought.
Hearts finished immediately behind Celtic and Rangers more often than any other club over the period and suffer the greatest potential losses, even more so than Celtic. Hibernian, Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell also suffered significant losses.
Several clubs got nowhere near European football over the period, and some of the 11 spent only a few years in the SPL but each club lost over £1m.
Figures for each club are:
Hearts
Maximum: £72.3m
Weighted: £16.3m
Minimum: £6.2m
Celtic
Maximum: £46.7m
Weighted: £21.9m
Minimum: £17.4m
Hibernian
Maximum: £34.8m
Weighted: £8.4m
Minimum: £3.6m
Aberdeen
Maximum: £21.1m
Weighted: £5.5m
Minimum: £2.7m
Dundee United
Maximum: £20.8m
Weighted: £5.2m
Minimum: £2.4m
Motherwell
Maximum: £16.7m
Weighted: £4.4m
Minimum: £2.1m
Kilmarnock
Maximum: £5.1m
Weighted: £1.9m
Minimum: £1.3m
Dunfermline
Maximum: £3.4m
Weighted: £1.8m
Minimum: £1.5m
Inverness
Maximum: £1.3m
Weighted: £1.3m
Minimum: £1.3m
St Johnstone
Maximum: £1.1m
Weighted: £1.1m
Minimum: £1.1m
St Mirren
Maximum: £1.1m
Weighted: £1.1m
Minimum: £1.1m
In the event Rangers fielded ineligible players during the period under consideration, which everyone apart from Neil Doncaster knows, and even he will be unable to deny next week, we know the following:
Rangers received a minimum of £40.9m which should have gone to the 11 other clubs, assuming each club lost all their European group stage qualifying campaigns. This calculation does not include earnings from clubs now in the Scottish Football League, such as Hamilton Accies or [then]Dundee.
If Scottish clubs progressed to the group stages of European competition on only 20% of their qualifying campaigns the loss would be £69.0m.
The figure for total potential losses if clubs successfully progressed to every European group stage is, as the figure for 100% failure, more illustrative than likely, but the maximum cost to the 11 SPL clubs is £224.6m.
You can read our calculations here. European income figures were sources from Uefa data.
The people who really matter in this entire debacle are those who buy tickets for Celtic Park, Pittodrie, Easter Road, Tynecastle, Tannadice, Fir Park and elsewhere. It is patently clear that the game in Scotland is failing fans and clubs alike. It is time for fans of SPL clubs to unite and move beyond the busted grip of the SFA.
Only SPL fans, working together, can ensure each of clubs has a viable future.
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TET he’d do some thing.
Or somebody.
southside retired judges often trade on their reputation.
LNS has cashed his in.
charle chuckles played a good game, firstly he insulted other clubs then some fans were to blame for their clubs not voting them into the spl, the sfa,spl, who were conspiring to kill them again,good strategy, so legal men would come in and do the goverments bidding
in the interests of national security ofcourse, and the spl,sfa could then say they were impartial as they handed to unquestionable people of the greatest of integrity, remind me again who said the actions of a certain club was only second to actual match fixing?
and then the same man and his colleagues produced a finding as fictional as the jfk
magic bullet theory.
THE EXILED TIM,
Even an attacking midfielder where the odd lapse was far from our goal.
There is a player in there of that I’m sure, and class to boot.
Fred C. Dobbs
There should be a law against judging a player until he has a full season under his belt.
Efe is the coolest guy on the planet, who else would turn up at a Glasgow nightclub in his Celtic tracky? Always judge a man by what he wears to the dancin.
Tet.
Spot on as usual. Should you not be slowing down. Cheers for the info, always good to keep ahead of the huns. Hail Hail
Kojo
Good advice to our supporters.
The old mantra:
What you can`t change,accept.
However,it must never apply to our Board.
TET
Been a bad week auld pal but that’s the loudest I have laughed ll week….
Yir auld mucker
Kikinthenakas
My tuppence worth before bed.
BFDJ on Snyde last nite – “there were 18 possible sanctions against R*nkers, but title stripping was not one of them.”
Snyde guest ” Well actually Derek, it was.”
BFDJ – “Aye but that was never gonna happen.”
True, true, oh fat wan!
BFDJ is now on the phone to Warren Buffet – cos he likes the name – to give him a heads-up on economic measures relating to the DOW JONES.
Southside I’m no lawyer but twice I’ve applied to the court to take out a private prosecution. Twice knocked back.
Mixed feelings when 15 yrs later I read that one wee sadist I crossed swords with was given a 2 stretch for kicking one police dog to death and so badly injuring another it had to be put down. Essex police force is where he served.
Punters are understanding and learning the law and are not so easily fooled.
when some one even as dumb as BFDJ says it was never gonna happen you know its a fix.
So proud of CFC tonight
I thought it would be left to the fans alone to take this on
Thanks to DD PL and CFC
Hail Hail
monteblanco,
A love the guy, yes his mistakes are obvious, but given time…
Still think he is Billy Oceans love child :O).
Fred C. Dobbs
I was going to say as the link man, but I thot, naw, a striker, but you are right, he has all the makings of a world class player, a few lapses to resolve, but that will be forthcoming, he is comfortable with the ball, no scared to stride out of defence with the ball, all good imo.
HH
TET
Right stoap it, Efe is no a bad defender but IMO a middy is whit he should be….whit riddy ur u drinking ?
danso_1888 – I concur. The titles are their precious. Mordor is looking for a barny now!
ET – como esta usted?
THE EXILED TIM,
He does need work, but given time I hope he stays with us.
Dancing on the ceiling :O).
We love you Celtic we do
We love you Celtic we do
We love you Celtic we do
Oh Celtic we love you… ..
and that’s all that matters
I watched Efe in the African nations cup
and i would say he looked good as an attacking RB.
Definitely Fred @00:38. NL and Big Johan have to impress upon him that he’s at the start.
We so easily lose sight of the fact that Big Giorgos, at 28, is often the oldest man on the park.
In a grubby little country that has given us the provable chicanery, sectarianism and bigotry of Jim Farry, Christine Grahame and Donald Findlay, QC. et al
Is anyone really that surprised at the LNS committee arrived at any other conclusion?
There must be a way to play our football in another country….Scotland doesn’t really want us, we don’t really want Scotland, we are at least the 16th best team in Europe, our stadium is one of the largest and most modern in Europe…………
Its like we are the wandering Jews of Europe and no one is helping………….must we become moribund because the Orcs have died?
EUEFA…….are you listening?……..is anyone listening?
moonhowlers are rubbidge tonight – Canamalar must have got himself a `jiggly’. :-)
Ntassoolla,
The home crowd getting nervous will shatter his confidence.
My Dear,Dear SFTB @ 22:44
Most Disappointing That You Saw Fit To Overlook The ‘Rosa Parks’ Episode In Your Earnest Submission….
Did You Know About Her Communist Party Affiliations..?
And What Does Paul67 Make Of This Deluded Member Of The Brennan Clan…
Over The Pond….?
Anytime You See A Still Image,Or Video Of This Man….
His Countenance Has The Appearance Of Someone Who Has Been Hypnotised/Brainwashed…..Or Possessed..?
With The Obama Administration’s Plans To Massively Expand The Use Of Drones Over The American Homeland….
And Brennan’s Reluctance To Rule Out Their Use In Targeting US Citizens For Liquidation…..
I Fear It Is Only A Matter Of Time Before Kojo,Lou….And Collie….
Find Themselves In The Crosshairs Of A Spiteful Remote Operator….
Indeed…The Biggest Drone Base In The US Is On The Outskirts Of Vegas….
Brennan : Obama To Benghazi /Canada Free Press….
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53284
Still……Laughin’
In 1851 about 20% of the population of Glasgow spoke Scottish Gaelic. Irish Gaelic wasn’t acknowledged. Those Highlanders and Islanders, and many Scottish lowlanders, came to support Celtic. So too did many Jews, then Italians, Poles and Lithuanians. They’re part of the Celtic story going back to the start.
Early start tomorrow so goodnight one and all.
Revenge is sweet, so they say.
kojo – pile of pish. whit next? shouldn’t ask as you’ll “drone” on!
Fred confidence comes from putting in the hard work. The crowd are part of it what a player has to come to terms with.
I used to wonder sometimes if lambasting Souness was counter productive. Then he lost it one Saturday and was sent off quick style. That settled my doubts.
ntassoolla
00:30 on
2 March, 2013
Wasn’t really meaning civil courts. Uefa should be the way to go. They don’t usually get involved in domestic affairs but if Celtic and other Scottish clubs make enough noise they’ve got to get involved. Even better if a team from another association ( say Austria) takes an interest.
TSD- you are a phoney poster
I read your musings… I don’t scroll by
why i waste my time??? I don’t know
in my eyes you are a fool
Rosa Parks
A true hero.
Someone whose values we should live
our lifes by.
southside I was just taking up your point in the general sense.
I’d prefer to sort them out in our own back yard.
Or theirs.
TSD
Kojo stop being an arse.
You are better than that.
Nite all, got the Mirren tomorrow.
oh when the saints, go marching in…………………………………………..
Anyone listening to radio paradise the intranet station. Cracking sounds. I could listen all night. In fact I might just do….. What’s that Mr prosecco?