Saints have banked a club record cash jackpot of nearly £80m for their stunning season.

The club have raked in the astonishing figure as a result of finishing seventh, and that is even before you take commercial elements and ticket sales into account.

Saints will be handed £79.55m from the Premier League for their efforts in 2014/15.

That includes a £52.2m equal share payment made to every Premier League club, and a £17.3m merit payment which is based on their finishing position.

On top of that they will receive £9.75m in facility fees. That is £750,000 for each of the 13 times they have appeared live on TV this season. Saints were on Sky Sports ten times and BT Sport three times over the course of the campaign.

The bumper figure tops their previous best which came the season before when they cashed in to the tune of £76.9m.

The increase is due to the extra money from improving their finishing position from eighth to seventh, and the fact they have appeared live on TV an extra three times this season.

Premier League title winners Chelsea top the money list for the season with £95.95m, while even bottom placed club QPR banked £61.95m.

The astonishing numbers again underline just how rich the Premier League is.

The figures will be very similar again next season but the following year is when things will incredibly rocket still further.

That’s because the season after next sees the introduction of a new TV deal, which is set to bring even more cash into the coffers of England’s 20 elite clubs.

The auctions for the new TV rights sale saw a record £5.136bn agreed for three seasons from 2016, a 71 per cent increase on the current deal.