What? This has got nothing to do with finances.
This is basically like UEFA’s points table for European competitions. You get two points for each win, a point for a draw, 4 points for reaching the CL knockouts, and one point for reaching every subsequent round. It’s the same for the Europa League, but you don’t get as many points for reaching the knockouts.
Given that we’ve made it to every knockout round in the last 5 years before this one, topping the group on almost every occasion, it’s not difficult to imagine us being in the top 10. We used to be in the top 5 not that long ago.
Link:
https://kassiesa.net/uefa/calc.html