The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has announced record financial results for the 2021/22 season, with its highest-ever turnover of £39.5m - up 7% on the 2020/21 season.
The accounts also reveal that club fees were £29.7m - up 5% year-on-year.
Additional payments to clubs included prize money and television facility fee payments from the Premier Sports Cup of £2.7m - up 9%.
Overseas income also rose 5%, while aggregate staff remuneration fell 6%.
SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: “These record results are extremely encouraging for our game and reflect the positive impact of the cinch title sponsorship, the largest single sponsorship deal in the history of the league, and the ongoing support that we continue to enjoy from Sky Sports and our other broadcast partners.
“With two of our clubs in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time since Season 2007/08, and on the back of our recently-announced long-term contract with Sky Sports, the SPFL can look forward with real confidence to the years ahead.”
Chairman Murdoch MacLennan added: “These results, of course, reflect the resilience and performance of the 42 member clubs of the SPFL - and their hugely committed fans - in ensuring that the SPFL remains the most dramatic, passionate, and exciting league in European football.”
Separately, Calum Beattie has been promoted to the role of chief operating officer, reporting to Doncaster.
The SPFL’s secretary for the past two years, said: “The recent work of the SPFL’s Strategy Group has been the catalyst for a range of initiatives across the commercial and operational sides of the business.
“There is a host of positive and exciting opportunities in the pipeline and I’m looking forward to assisting the chief executive in delivering these in my new role.”
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