Manchester City is listed as the richest club in Europe for the first time, with an income of 644 million euros in the 2020-2021 season, followed by Real Madrid, which is listed in second place with 640.1 million.
The English club leads for the first time the annual ‘Football Money League’ study prepared by the consulting firm Deloitte, in which it relieves Barcelona, which led it the previous season and City was sixth. The Barça club is now in fourth position, after the drop in its figures from 715 to 582 million euros.
After Real Madrid and the German Bayern Munich in third position, with €611.4 million, appear Manchester United (€558 million), PSG (€556 million), Liverpool (€550 million), Chelsea (493 million €), Juventus (€433 million) and Tottenham Hotspur (€406 million) to complete the top ten positions.
Atlético de Madrid remains in thirteenth position with revenues of €332.8 million and Sevilla appears in twenty-first place with a figure of €199.5 million.
The study specifies that City has recorded income of 106.4 million in transfers and has spent 218.8, which implies a negative net balance of 112.4, a section in which Real Madrid offers a positive balance of 86, 8 million.
The white club, which heads the table on average over the two seasons, had transfer revenues of €131.4 million and expenses of €44.7 million.
Barça’s income in this section was €66.8 million and expenses €90.8 million (negative balance of -24); those of Atlético de Madrid of €77.6 million and expenses of €67.1 million (+10.5).
The total income figure of the 20 main clubs amounts to 8,178 million, higher than the 8,162 of the previous one, affected by the covid-19 pandemic. In the 2018-2019 season, the record of 9,300 million euros was reached.
The study estimates that the losses due to the health crisis are around 2,000 million euros.
According to it, in this edition the English clubs Leicester City (15th), West Ham (16th), Wolverhampton (17th) and Aston Villa (20th) enter the top 20 positions. Arsenal (11th), Borussia Dortmund (12th), Inter Milan (14th) and Zenit (19th) continue among the privileged.
