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Champions Leicester due to bank £170 MILLION

Leicester City are set to bank at least £170 million from their Premier League title triumph.

The Daily Mail says for simply competing in the Champions League group stage, Leicester will receive £9.3million while each win will further line their pockets to the tune of £1.2m. Even a draw at Europe's top table generates £390,000.

Added to that is a slice of the TV revenue drawn from BT Sport's massive £897m three-year investment in European football.

The pot for 2016-17 stands at around £75m and the champions will receive the lion's share — about 40 per cent.

All this means that if Leicester go out at the first stage without picking up a point, they will still earn close to £40m. Winning the Premier League title has also handed them around £90m in prize money.

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