FC Barcelona Topple Real Madrid To Reach The Top Of Deloitte’s Football Money League
January 14, 2020
FC Barcelona have reached the top of Deloitte’s annual Football Money League for the first time after bringing in €840.8 million of revenue for the 2018/19 season.
By doing so they have toppled LaLiga rivals Real Madrid, who finished in second place with €757.3 million, with Manchester United in third place.
Of the top ten, five are Premier League clubs, with Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea joining United. Tottenham’s inclusion sees them become the highest placed London side, mainly in thanks to making the Champions League Final, with Arsenal out of the top ten in eleventh place.
Barcelona’s revenue margin to second place was the highest ever seen in the report, say Deloitte, with the Catalan side producing €83.5 million more than Real Madrid during the season.
Of the revenue produced by the top 20 sides in the report (€9.3 billion), almost half came via money from broadcasting, with the figure at 44%. Close behind was commercial revenue which accounted for 40%, while the remaining 16% of revenue was produced from matchdays.
One particularly interesting statistic to come from the report is that only 25% of clubs in the top 20 have more followers on Instagram than their most followed player on the platform.
View the full report here: https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/sports-business-group/articles/deloitte-football-money-league.html
