The 2025/26 Premier League season ends today for Newcastle United and the other 19 PL clubs.
The 20 clubs kicking off their final league fixtures at 4pm on Sunday 24 May.
A lot to be decided across these remaining fixtures, including the Premier League payments.
Last season (2024/25), Liverpool won the title and received a total of £174.9m from the Premier League central funds, that total comprised from various pots of PL cash.
Newcastle United finished fifth in the table and received a total of £160.2m.
One part of that total for NUFC was a merit payment of £42.4m for finishing fifth highest, each Premier League position worth roughly £2.7m.
Liverpool last season (2024/25) banked a merit payment of £53.1m for finishing top, Southampton the very lowest with only a £2.6m merit payment for ending up bottom.
Depending on results today, Newcastle United will now finish somewhere between ninth and fourteenth.
Premier League table on the morning of Sunday 24 May 2026
When it comes to Premier League merit payments, the 2024/25 season saw Bournemouth end up ninth and receiving £31.9m, West Ham finished fourteenth and received £18.6m. A difference of £13.3m.
Newcastle United are guaranteed to have club record revenues this season, thanks largely to the bonus cash generated by the knockout competitions, United doing well in the domestic cups and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League.
The Newcastle United 2025/26 revenues set to exceed £400m but with such a massive summer ahead, every penny, every extra £2.7m or so from their Premier League placing, will help to fund what will hopefully be a summer transfer window that enables United to get back on track in the league in 2026/27.
So today at Craven Cottage is not just about pride, it is also about hard cash.
A win for Newcastle United would guarantee eleventh place in the final Premier League table at worst.
A Newcastle United win AND Sunderland failing to beat Chelsea would ensure at least tenth in the Premier League..
Whilst if Brentford lose at Liverpool, it is also possible for Newcastle United to overtake them as well and finish ninth, although the Bees also currently have a three goal advantage on GD that also needs to be overturned by NUFC (for example, Newcastle winning 2-0 and Brentford losing 1-0 would take Eddie Howe’s side above them.