Manchester United came out on top of the Premier League clubs by collecting £30.5m, while Manchester City received £24.7m, Chelsea made £26.3m and Arsenal got £26.8m.
Celtic picked up more than £20m from their run to the round of 16, where they were beaten by Italian giants Juventus, who collected the biggest UEFA payment of £56.1m despite losing in the quarter-finals to eventual winners Bayern Munich.
UEFA says Bayern got £47.3m in prize money and bonuses, edging beaten finalist Borussia Dortmund £46.4m.
For the last six years, the English clubs have been the biggest earners from the competition but a combination of factors has led to the quartet slipping back in the Champions League earnings list last season.
The first factor was the relatively poor performance by English teams, with none in the quarter-finals and Chelsea and Manchester City failing even to make it out of the group phase.
Secondly, UEFA's latest TV deal with ITV and BSkyB saw no rise in its value, meaning no extra income for the English clubs. By contrast, in Italy the Champions League TV deal increased by around 35 per cent and in Spain by around 20 per cent.
Chelsea earned £51.6m when they won the Champions League in 2012, but their income from the most recent competition was almost exactly half that figure, £26.2m. Manchester United's 2013 earnings were exactly the same as 2012 - £30.5m; Arsenal's were £27.1m compared to £24.1m; Manchester City earned £24.7m compared to £22.8m.
By contrast, the other major earners in Europe were Real Madrid with £41.6m , Barcelona £39.2m , AC Milan £44.2m, and French side PSG £38.3m.
Celtic's reward for their run to the knock-out stage was income of £20.4m despite a drop in the value of the Scottish TV deal of around 13 per cent - in 2011 Rangers earned £15.9m but did not make it into the knock-out round.
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