Manchester City have topped Deloitte’s Football Money League for the first time in their history after emerging from the Coronavirus crisis in a stronger position than their rivals.
The Premier League champions, bankrolled by their Abu Dhabi
owners, are only the fourth club to top the rankings after Real Madrid,
Barcelona and Manchester United
City’s revenue of 644.9 million euros ($712 million, £541
million) in the 2020/21 season — up 17 percent — propelled them from sixth
position to the top on the list of the 20 highest revenue-generating clubs in
world football.
However, some of City’s commercial deals — which account for
nearly half of revenue — are a source of controversy, with a number key
partners such as shirt and stadium sponsor Etihad having links to the club’s
owners.
The club were 4.2 million euros ahead of Spanish giants Real
Madrid, with German champions Bayern Munich next followed by Barcelona and
Manchester United.
A total of 11 English clubs were in the top 20, with Wolves
making their first-ever appearance as the Premier League continued to flex its
financial muscle.
Average revenue of the 20 clubs on the list was 409 million
euros — a marginal increase on the 2019/20 season thanks to broadcast deferrals
due to Covid disruption, but a 12 percent decrease on the 2018/19 season
because of the absence of fans.
The clubs in the Money League have missed out on more than
two billion euros of revenue over the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons as a result
of the pandemic, the Deloitte report said.
Premier League clubs were more insulated due to the much
larger television rights deals they enjoy compared with their competitors in
the other top European leagues and the gap is likely to widen.
“Premier League broadcast rights values are set to pull
further away from the other ‘big five’ European leagues from the 2022/23 season
with the rollover of existing domestic arrangements on the same terms and the
total value of international rights reportedly set to increase by 30 percent
and exceed the value of domestic rights for the first time,” said Dan Jones,
head of Deloitte’s Sports Business Group.
SEE FULL LIST:
|
Rank |
Team |
Revenue |
|
1 |
Man City |
€644.9m |
|
2 |
Real Madrid |
€640.7m |
|
3 |
Bayern |
€611.4m |
|
4 |
Barcelona |
€582.1m |
|
5 |
Man Utd |
€558m |
|
6 |
PSG |
€556.2m |
|
7 |
Liverpool |
€550.4m |
|
8 |
Chelsea |
€493.1m |
|
9 |
Juventus |
€433.5m |
|
10 |
Tottenham |
€406.2m |
|
11 |
Arsenal |
€366.5m |
|
12 |
Dortmund |
€337.6m |
|
13 |
Atletico |
€332.8m |
|
14 |
Inter |
€330.9m |
|
15 |
Leicester |
€255.5m |
|
16 |
West Ham |
€221.5m |
|
17 |
Wolves |
€219.2m |
|
18 |
Everton |
€218.1m |
|
19 |
Zenit |
€212m |
|
20 |
Aston Villa |
€207.3m |
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