By Mark Baber
January 23 – The Deloitte Money League for 2013/14 shows the richest clubs are getting richer – with the top 20 clubs seeing an increase in combined revenue of €6.2 billion in 2013/14, an increase of 14% on the previous year, but also indicates the advantages of a more equal distribution of wealth within a league. All 20 Premier League teams made the top 40 globally.
Real Madrid top the Money League for the tenth consecutive year, whilst Manchester United (despite disappointing results on the pitch) have risen two places to second place. Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain fill the next spots.
Real Madrid saw revenue growth of €30.6 million, from increases of 8% and 9% in broadcast and commercial revenues respectively giving total revenues of €549.5 million for the year.
The increasing importance of commercial and broadcast revenues has reinforced the dominance of the ‘big five’ European leagues, with only Galatasaray making the top 20 from outside the English, Spanish, German, French and Italian leagues.
Other findings include:
The financial threshold for a place in the top 20 has increased to €144 million, 20% higher than the previous year.
Matchday revenue of the top 20 grew in aggregate by 4% in 2013/14, compared with an
overall revenue growth (including broadcast and commercial revenues) of 14% leaving matchday revenue on average at only 20% of total revenues.
Thanks to the Premier League’s new broadcast deal, every Premier League club reported record revenue increases in 2013-14.
Napoli entered the top 20 after its revenues increased by more than 50% but Italian clubs continue their relative decline with AC Milan falling out of the top ten for the first time.
Atletico Madrid jumped from 20th to 15th place after reaching the Champions League final.
The survey also looks at social media popularity and in terms of Facebook likes, Barcelona lead the way with 81.4 million narrowly from Real Madrid (80.7 million). As regards Twitter, Real Madrid lead the way with 14.4 million flowers, followed by Barcelona on 13.8 million with third placed Arsenal well behind on 5.2 million.
Looking forward to next year’s results, the trend for the richest clubs to get richer looks likely to find the top 5 clubs all breaking the €500 million barrier and Premier League clubs are likely to reinforce their position yet further due to their broadcast deal.
DELOITTE FOOTBALL MONEY LEAGUE 2013/14 TOP 10
Revenues in euros for 2013-14 season. (2012-13 revenues in brackets)
1. Real Madrid: €549.5m (€518.9m)
2. Man Utd: 518m (423.8m)
3. Bayern Munich: 487.5m (431.2m)
4. Barcelona: 484.6m (482.6m)
5. Paris Saint Germain; 474.2m (398.8m)
6. Manchester City: 414.4m (316.2m)
7. Chelsea: 387.9m (303.4m)
8. Arsenal: 359.3m (284.3)
9. Liverpool: 305.9m (240.6m)
10. Juventus: 279.4m (272.4m)
Source: Deloitte
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