£450,000! 2 weeks wages for a Premier League Footballer!

Warrington, Rovers, Widnes & Catalans or Leigh will receive the standard SL central funding, c£1.8m(?).

Then the loser of the MPG (5th place) gets c£750k central funding, which is where the "million" pound difference comes from.

6th £700k(ish), 7th £500kish, £450kish.

For the next 8 Championship sides (6 remaining, 1 promoted and 1 playoff winner), their funding is based on league position from £275kish to £80kish, then League 1 clubs get £70k each I believe.

I say "ish" on most of that, because non of that has been made public by the RFL from what I can find. The figures come via a Total RL thread


There's a lack of info out there on Challenge Cup & Grand Final prize money, and how gate receipts are shared (if at all).

Never understood why they pool the playoff game money either, especially when it was a multi-game series, as it meant teams had little incentive to promote the games and I believe were banned from running ticket deals.

Not an issue this time round due to Headingley being on reduced capacity, and Cas' ground being small and their biggest game for a lifetime. But in the past we've had big grounds like the KCOM and DW to fill and little being done to help fill them, sometimes playoff gates have been far lower than dead-rubber league games.

Salary cap is currently £1.825m, rising to £1.9m next year, £2.0m in 2019 and £2.1m in 2020.

I think that was the previous deal, but under the current deal each SL club gets £1.825m per season until the end of 2021.