Irish club Dundalk earned a crazy amount of money with their Champions League qualifier success

League of Ireland Dundalk made history following a 3-0 win in their Champions League third round qualifier.

Two David McMillan goals and a Robbie Benson strike earned Irish champions a 3-0 home-leg win over Belarus champions BATE Borisov. The victor ensured a 3-1 aggregate success and saw them one round away from qualifying for the Champions League group stage. At worse, Dundalk will enter next season with a Europa League position, an incredible result for Irish football. Fans cannot believe it. https://twitter.com/canalend/status/760581745154592768 https://twitter.com/scottreid1980/status/760580376754548737 Such was the scale of Dundalk's victory, the club have effectively secured their economic future for several years. As JOE writer Kevin Beirne points out...

Worst-case scenario now for @DundalkFC is they lose their play-off and drop into the Europa League group stages with minimum €2.4m windfall.

— #repealthe8th (@KevBeirne) August 2, 2016

Dundalk entering the Champions League qualifying round gives them a greater windfall than if they had won the league.

.@DundalkFC will get more prize money for a draw in the Europa League (€120k) than if they won their third league title in a row (€110k). — #repealthe8th (@KevBeirne) August 2, 2016

It looks like this historic victory could be worth at least €5m Euros to the League of Ireland side. If they win their play-off qualification match that would be worth a further €2m. If they made it to the group stages of the Champions League proper - and become the first ever Irish cub to do so - that would pull in another €12m. https://twitter.com/killeroc/status/760583606523879428 https://twitter.com/killianbyrne/status/760581624966868993 A truly remarkable occasion.  https://twitter.com/kdkilbane77/status/760578987307503617