In early September, Ukrainian clubs will start playing in the group stages of European tournaments - the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League.

TSN Prosport introduces readers to the cost of the teams participating in the competition, including representatives of our country - Shakhtar Donetsk, Dynamo Kyiv and Dnipro-1.

Champions League Shakhtar Donetsk have one of the cheapest squads in the Champions League group stage - 74 million euros. To be precise, according to this indicator, the Pitmen are fourth from the bottom..

Squads of only three clubs cost less than Shakhtar - Danish Copenhagen (70 million euros), Czech Victoria Pilsen (24 million euros) and Israeli Maccabi Haifa (18 million euros).

As for the rivals of the Ukrainian club in the group stage, the composition of Real Madrid is estimated at 787 million euros, the German Leipzig - 481 million euros, and the Scottish "

Nearly half of the group stage participants - 14 clubs - have squads worth more than €500m. The most expensive of them is Manchester City - 1.01 billion euros.

Europa League "

The squad of the White-Blues is the most expensive among Ukrainian clubs and amounts to 106 million euros. In terms of the total cost of the squad, the Kyivans are ahead of 17 out of 32 teams that made it to the group stage of the Europa League.

At the same time, two rivals of Dynamo in the group bypass Mircea Lucescu's wards at once. Rennes have the most expensive set of players at €267m, followed by Fenerbahce at €178m.. Closes the quartet in terms of the cost of the AEK squad from Larnaca - 12 million euros.

The most expensive squad in this tournament is for Manchester United (743 million euros) and Arsenal (647 million euros). The cheapest one is from the Finnish HIK - 9 million euros.

Conference League Ukrainian debutant of European cups "

The team of Oleksandr Kucher, with a set of players worth 20 million euros, is ahead of 15 clubs at once.

This is more than the two rivals of Dnipro in the group - Cypriot " The Dnipro team is second only to the Dutch AZ in terms of the cost of the train (62 million euros).

The most expensive team in the Conference League are the English " The cheapest in this tournament and in European competition in general is the Irish "

How much Ukrainian clubs have already earned in European competitions of the 2022/23 season.

Shakhtar, starting immediately from the Champions League group stage, is guaranteed to count on 15.64 million euros. Also, the Pitmen should receive marketing payments..

Dynamo, which failed to qualify for the Champions League group, losing in the play-off round of qualifying to the Portuguese Benfica, still have already earned 8.63 million euros. The White-Blues are guaranteed to receive 5 million euros for reaching the playoffs of the Champions League qualification, another 3.63 million euros for getting into the Europa League group. In addition, the capital club will also receive payments from UEFA for the club rating..

Dnipro-1, having taken off in the playoff round of the Europa League qualification from AEK, earned 2.94 million euros for their performance at this stage of European competition.

Zorya Lugansk, having lost to Universitate in the third round of the Conference League qualification, earned 650 thousand euros. Getting into this selection stage itself guaranteed the Luhansk club 550 thousand euros + 100 thousand euros UEFA pays for performance at each stage.

Vorskla, who were knocked out by AIK in the second round of the Conference League qualification, earned 450 thousand euros. Of these, 350 thousand euros for reaching this stage and 100 thousand euros from UEFA for participation in matches.