Football Rich List

_Jimlad_ · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:00

Real Madrid remain the richest club in world football, according to the latest published report on the game's big earners.

Though Los Merengues may have not won a trophy in the past three seasons, they remain the highest money earners after an income of €292.2million (£192.7million) for the 2005/06 season - an increase of six per cent.

Real's arch-rivals Barcelona were second in the list with an income of €259.1million (£171million), though the Spanish and European champions' growth was an impressive 25 per cent last season.

The findings come from the latest edition of the Football Money League report that was published by consultants Deloitte.

In all, the top 20 clubs reached earnings of £2.31billion, with revenue from television and sponsorship deals being a major factor.

Eight of the clubs in the top-20 list come from the Premiership, with Manchester United listed as the fourth-richest club at €242.6million (£160million).

Rangers may be well behind Old Firm rivals Celtic in the Scottish Premier League table, but they are the only Scottish club to crack the 20 - sitting 18th after earnings of €88.5million (£58.4million).

Deloitte also stated the new television deals that are set to begin in Europe next season will increase clubs' revenues, with the Premiership likely to contribute half of the top 20 clubs under its new TV deal come next season.

List of World's richest clubs
1 Real Madrid - £192.7million
2 Barcelona - £171million
3 Juventus - £165.8million
4 Manchester United - £160million
5 Milan - £157.5million
6 Chelsea - £145.8million
7 Internazionale - £136.3million
8 Bayern Munich - £135million
9 Arsenal - £126.9million
10 Liverpool - £116.1million
11 Lyon - £84.2million
12 Roma - £83.8million
13 Newcastle United - £82million
14 Schalke - £81.1million
15 Tottenham Hotspur - £70.7million
16 Hamburg - £67.1million
17 Manchester City - £59million
18 Rangers - £58.4million
19 West Ham United - £57.3million
20 Benfica - £56.1million

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Nor · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:02

Celtic really suffered from no European football income last season. It's amazing how well Celtic and Rangers fair when you consider that they earn around £2m each season in domestic TV revenue. Compare that with even the bottom club in the EPL getting £30m+ just for turning up.

Celtic should be closer to £80m this season.

weescott · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:10

You forgot to highlight Rangers

_Jimlad_ · 10 Feb 2007 at 10:50

Nor said:
Celtic really suffered from no European football income last season. It's amazing how well Celtic and Rangers fair when you consider that they earn around £2m each season in domestic TV revenue. Compare that with even the bottom club in the EPL getting £30m+ just for turning up.

Celtic should be closer to £80m this season.

weescott said:
You forgot to highlight Rangers

break it up you two

touch · 10 Feb 2007 at 10:54

weescott said:
You forgot to highlight Rangers

Rangers aint in the premiership :S

MR_Punk · 10 Feb 2007 at 11:49

I wonder how fair Juve will fall down that last for this season?

+44

Mad old tory · 10 Feb 2007 at 11:51

Arsenal should go up a bit next season with the Emirates now being used, hopefully.

SpeedFreak · 10 Feb 2007 at 13:07

Bit of a useless list to honest. It shows turnover, not profit, so hardly reflects the financial success of a club if they have 200 million coming in and 185 million going out.

Loki · 10 Feb 2007 at 14:01

SpeedFreak said:
Bit of a useless list to honest. It shows turnover, not profit, so hardly reflects the financial success of a club if they have 200 million coming in and 185 million going out.

Exactley.

A guy from the company who published the data was on SkySports news on Thursday morning. Basically saying it was just a measure of turnover nothing more. Manchester United still remain the most profitable club. Real Madrid and Barcelona enjoy a bigger turnover due to the fact they have recently negotiated their own TV deals. He expects Utd & Arsenal to increase turnover in the next 12-24 months due to the new TV deal and bigger revenues from match tickets.

_Jimlad_ · 10 Feb 2007 at 17:08

Loki said:
Exactley.

A guy from the company who published the data was on SkySports news on Thursday morning. Basically saying it was just a measure of turnover nothing more. Manchester United still remain the most profitable club. Real Madrid and Barcelona enjoy a bigger turnover due to the fact they have recently negotiated their own TV deals. He expects Utd & Arsenal to increase turnover in the next 12-24 months due to the new TV deal and bigger revenues from match tickets.

it troubles me that the bigger clubs keep getting bigger and bigger

it's almost a dead cert that the top 4 places in the prem will contain man utd, chelsea, liverpool and Arsenal - other bigger teams seem to scrap it out for the UEFA spots, i can't ever see that changing ?

weescott · 11 Feb 2007 at 00:18

touch said:
Rangers aint in the premiership :S

Thank you for pointing out the obvious.

Loki · 12 Feb 2007 at 00:04

Crazy Fool said:
it troubles me that the bigger clubs keep getting bigger and bigger

it's almost a dead cert that the top 4 places in the prem will contain man utd, chelsea, liverpool and Arsenal - other bigger teams seem to scrap it out for the UEFA spots, i can't ever see that changing ?

I agree entirely. So much for the beautiful game. I don't think that the FA Cup has been won outside the top four for over 10 years. The same goes for the Champions league. Since it began it has been won by teams from the G8 only.

G|mp · 12 Feb 2007 at 00:07

I think it was the NoTW but it said that its the same list that had Fiorentina 13th one year and 6 months later they were bankrupt :/

jojothemonkey69 · 18 Feb 2007 at 22:45

wow west ham 19th in the rich list can't see that for long if they don't start winning games