Footballs Richest Clubs List
Tuesday March 2, 2010
Real Madrid - with an income of over R4 billion in a year - and Barcelona are the biggest moneymakers in world football. The Spanish rivals took first and second place in Deloitte's annual study of the sport's finances, with heavily indebted English champion Manchester United slipping to third because of the weakness of the British pound. Deloitte ranked the 20 biggest clubs on revenue. Madrid generated Euro 401.4 million ($567.3 million, R4 billion as at June 30, 2009) in the 12 months to June 30, 2009. European champion Barcelona returned to the position it occupied two years ago with Euro 365.9 million ($517.2 million). Manchester United generated Euro 327 million ($462.2 million) but would have continued in second place had the pound's value against the euro not dropped by another 7 percent over the year.
Here are the worlds 20 richest football clubs - based on revenue. This is for the year ending June 30, 2009, as listed by accountancy firm Deloitte in its annual report released Tuesday (2008 positions in parenthesis):
1. Real Madrid, Spain, Euro 401.4 million ($567.3 million as at June 30, 2009) (1).
2. Barcelona, Spain, Euro 365.9 million (3).
3. Manchester United, England, Euro 327.0 million (2).
4. Bayern Munich, Germany, Euro 289.5 million (4).
5. Arsenal, England, Euro 263 million (6).
6. Chelsea, England, Euro 242.3 million (5).
7. Liverpool, England, Euro 217.0 million (7).
8. Juventus, Italy, Euro 203.2 million (11).
(tie) Inter Milan, Italy, Euro 196.5 million (10).
(tie) AC Milan, Italy, Euro 196.5 million (8).
11. Hamburg, Germany, Euro 146.7 million (15).
12. AS Roma, Italy, Euro 146.4 million (9).
13. Lyon, France, Euro 139.6 million (12).
14. Marseille, France, Euro 133.2 million (16).
15. Tottenham, England, Euro 132.7 million (14).
16. Schalke, Germany, Euro 124.5 million (13).
17. Werder Bremen, Germany, Euro 114.7 million (-).
18. Borussia Dortmund, Germany, Euro 103.5 million (-).
19. Manchester City, England, Euro 102.2 million (20).
20. Newcastle, England, Euro 101.0 million (17).
[Associated Press]
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