Yummy...we get a share of half their gate receipts...apparently
Think it's shared by all four teams?
(And losing finalist gets the winning teams share from the final...which is about an extra £1.5m after the league take their 50%)
something like - "
Sky Bet EFL Play-Off Rules
Posted: Mon 11 Aug 2014
Author: EFL
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1 Definitions
1.1 Throughout these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires:-
‘The League’ means The Football League Limited.
‘the Board’ means the Board of Directors of The League.
‘the Clubs’ means those Clubs qualifying for the Play-Off Competition each Season.
‘the Play-Off Competition’ means the knockout competition held at the end of each Season to determine the final Club qualifying for promotion to the next highest Division, or in the case of the Championship, the Premier League.
‘these Rules’ means these Rules of the Play-Off Competition as from time to time altered.
‘the Regulations’ means the Regulations of The League from time to time in force.
2 Competition Format
2.1 At the end of each Season, the four highest placed Clubs in each division not gaining automatic promotion shall enter the Play-Off Competition.
2.2 The Semi-Final matches shall be played over two legs.
2.3 In the Semi-Finals, the two teams who finished in the First and Second Play-Off place in The League, will play away from home in the first leg against the Fourth and Third placed team respectively. These pairings will be reversed for the second leg.
2.4 In the Semi-Finals, the first leg shall be of 90 (ninety) minutes duration. If the aggregate scores are level at the end of 90 (ninety) minutes in the second leg, extra time will be played. If the scores remain level at the end of extra time the tie will be determined by the taking of kicks from the penalty mark, in accordance with the Laws of Association Football.
2.5 In the Final, if the score is level at the end of 90 (ninety) minutes, extra time will be played, followed
if necessary by kicks from the penalty mark, in accordance with the Laws of Association Football.
2.6 Use of Goal Line Technology. Where the venue at which a Play Off Semi Final or Final is to be played has a goal line technology system installed that complies with the FIFA requirements for goal line technology, the Executive shall be entitled to determine whether that system is used, and its decision shall be final.
3 Tickets
3.1 Where a Home Club admits any person to the ground as part of its hospitality arrangements or to an executive box and there is no separate charge for admission, each person is treated as having bought a ticket at the highest price payable for a ticket for that match.
3.2 A maximum of 250 complimentary tickets, excluding those covered under Rule 3.4, and any tickets required to be made available under any commercial agreement entered into by The Football League, may be issued. Any tickets in excess of this number must be accounted for at the appropriate rate.
3.3 The Visiting Club shall have the right to claim 2,000 tickets for use by its supporters (or such number as represents 10% of all tickets reserved or otherwise sold in advance, if less than 2,000). The following conditions shall apply:-
3.3.1 unless otherwise mutually agreed in writing, all tickets shall be on sale or return basis;
3.3.2 payments for tickets sold by a Visiting Club together with details of tickets sold and the return of unsold tickets, must be made to the Home Club within four days of the date of the match; and
3.3.3 a minimum of 10% of the total disabled spectator accommodation must be made available to disabled supporters of the Visiting Club.
3.4 A Visiting Club shall also be entitled to one third of the seats usually reserved and known as the ‘Home and Visiting Directors’ Seats’, up to a maximum of 24 seats.
3.5 The Home Club may not reduce normal League admission charges without the written agreement of the Away Club. Any disagreement between the Clubs shall be determined by the Executive.
3.6 For the purposes of Rule 3.5, ‘reduce’ shall also include seeking to make Play Off Match tickets available to season ticket holders, members of membership clubs or other similar schemes at the same discount that would apply to them for normal League Matches when compared with the Club’s published normal League Match admission charges.
3.7 The provisions of Regulation 34.2.4 to 32.2.10 (inclusive) shall apply so as to ensure that away supporters are not charged more than home supporters except where permitted by those Regulations.
3.8 For the avoidance of doubt:
3.8.1 Regulation 34.2.3 (5% commission on away ticket sales) shall not apply; and
3.8.2 Matches in the Play-Off Competition cannot, for the avoidance of doubt, be treated as local promotion matches (as that term is described in Regulation 34.2.11).
4 Central Sponsorship
4.1 Each Club will be required to make available the contracted services and facilities at the Club’s Home ground from time to time required for the League’s Sponsorship and Commercialpartners. Details will be circulated by The Football League’s Commercial Department.
5 Financial Rules relating to the Semi-Final matches
5.1 The expenses of the semi final matches in the Play-Off Competition shall include standard class railway fares of Players and officials of the Visiting Club, not exceeding twenty-four in number, and hotel expenses (at the rate as determined by the Executive from time to time) if necessarily incurred. If however, a Club should choose to travel by air, thus obviating the necessity of overnight accommodation, the Visiting Club may claim an amount in lieu calculated by reference to the amounts that would have been incurred in respect of standard railway fares (not exceeding £100 return per person) and one night’s hotel expenses as stated.
5.2 Income from television broadcasting of any match shall not form part of the proceeds of thematch. Facility fees payable to Clubs shall be determined by the Board.
5.3 The proceeds of each match after paying thereout the travelling and/or hotel expenses, for one night and only if incurred, of the Visiting Club, the ground and other expenses of the match including Value Added Tax, floodlighting of the playing pitch and ancillary lighting (not to exceed £200), advertising, printing, postage, police charges, turnstile operators, stewards and contribution to first aid helpers shall hereafter be referred to as ‘the Semi Final Net Gate Receipts Before Levy’.
5.4 A levy amounting to 3% of the Semi Final Net Gate Receipts Before Levy shall be payable in accordance with Article 67. The balance of the net proceeds after deduction of the levy represents the ‘Net Gate Receipts’ and such Net Gate Receipts shall be divided as follows:-
5.4.1 50% of the Net Gate Receipts shall be paid into the Pool Account referred to in Article 65; and
5.4.2 the remaining 50% of the Net Gate Receipts shall be aggregated, Division by Division, and each Division’s aggregated monies shall be shared equally amongst the four Clubs taking part in that Division’s Play-Off matches.
5.5 Each Home Club shall send the 3% levy and the shares of the Net Gate Receipts to be paid into the Pool Account to The League together with a statement of the calculations thereof within ten days of the match to be aggregated by Division.
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