How much money Premier League clubs will earn from Burnley and Leeds United's promotion | OneFootball

The top two spots in this Championship season were locked up by the Clarets and the Blades on Easter Monday.

Teams in the Premier League are set to financially benefit from Easter Monday's Championship results, which confirmed that Burnley and Leeds United would be promoted back to the top flight.

Monday really was a day in which the two best teams in the division showed why they had separated themselves from the rest. Leeds held up their end of the bargain in the 3pm kick-offs, pummeling Stoke City 6-0 at Elland Road with five of those goals being scored before half-time.

That took them to 94 points for the season, leaving an eight-point gap to Sheffield United in third. The Blades had to beat Burnley at Turf Moor later that day to keep their own automatic promotion hopes alive, but they didn't.

A 2-1 loss to the Clarets, courtesy of a brace from Josh Brownhill, punched the home side's ticket back to the Premier League and ripped up United's top-two dreams.

Burnley & Leeds set to financially boost Premier League sides

So the autos are locked up. All that's left to decide in these final two matches is who will win the league and who the Blades will face in the play-offs.

Burnley and Leeds can start to focus their attention on their summer recruitment. They will attempt something that no Championship team has successfully done over the past two seasons: win promotion and not get relegated straight back down the next time out.

The jump in general quality from the second tier to the first is bigger than it has ever been, and that gap may only get larger now that Burnley and Leeds have won promotion.

Teams who have been in the Premier League in the three previous seasons, like the Championship's current top two, receive parachute payments from the first division on a yearly basis. However, if you're promoted back to the top flight within that three-year period, you don't receive those payments the following season.

As per Kieran Maguire, Burnley and Leeds were set to be paid £35 million and £16 million, respectively, by the Premier League for the 2025/26 campaign. So what happens to that money now that they have won promotion?

Well it will be split between the clubs in the top tier, meaning the top tier sides will receive, roughly, an extra £2.5 million on top of the £100+ million they earn from the Premier League every season anyway.

To put that into context, that extra money is between one and two per cent of what the top flight teams get from the league every season. £2.5 million would be nearly 25% of what Championship sides get given by the EFL every season.

Changes to the distribution of unneeded parachute payments could help to bridge the gap between the Championship and the Premier League

The same happened last season when Leicester City and Southampton went straight back up to the Premier League.

They were set to earn a combined £102 million from parachute payments, as per Maguire, but that instead was divvied out between those at the top table, handing them just over £5 million each in unexpected cash.

It may only make a small difference to those in the Championship, but imagine if a team like Portsmouth had an extra £7.5 million to work with across this season and last season.

It'd slowly start to bring the quality of the second tier up, because the average team could invest more into player acquisition, plus the boost of parachute payments is a drop in the ocean for these Premier League sides.

It'd take more than that to make the chasm between the two divisions one that is realistically jumpable for any second tier side. What it would represent is a step in the right direction.