West Ham has entered the world’s top 20 super rich football clubs for the first time, sneaking into 18th place. The annual Deloitte Football money league shows Manchester United has replaced Real Madrid at the number one spot while Barcelona jump up to the number two spot leaving their Spanish rivals in third.
Eight Premier League clubs dominate the top 20, with revenues totalling nearly £2.4bn between them.
Champions Leicester City (20th) also enter the top 20 for the first time. They produced a revenue of £128m – which is almost five times the revenue generated two seasons before in 2013-14.
Manchester City move up one place to fifth position.
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham remain in seventh, eighth, ninth and 12th places. West Ham just missed out last season when they were listed in 21st place in the world rankings so this is the first time they have broken into the top 20 with a revenue of 192.3m Euros (£166.5m).
A full copy of the report can be read at https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/sports-business-group/articles/deloitte-football-money-league.html
Where did Leicester get their revenue from? Is that just winning the Prem? Surely don’t get much from a few CL games, or do they…Any financial experts out there…
Leicester got £93m from TV money last season for winning the League! They only got £71m the year before. West Ham got £85m last season.
Champions league money
Playoff Bonus €50 million distributed to 20 teams who participated in playoffs. €2m each for playoff winners and €3 million each for eliminated teams. Participation Bonus €12.7 million (Guaranteed) for each 32 teams who play in the group stages
Performance Bonus €1.5 million for every win & €500,000 for every draw in group stages
Round of 16 €6 million each for 16 teams
Quarter Finals €6.5 million each for 8 teams
Semifinals €7.5 million each for 4 teams
Runner Ups €11 million
Final €15.5 million
Potential Total Winner of 2016-17 champions league can earn between €54m to €57.2m from “Fixed Amount” pot. Plus Market pool money which can easily elevate total earnings of winners from England, Spain, Germay or Italy around €100 million (prize money + market pool)
That link is not user friendly, at least not to me, I’d like to see the list if you can cut and paste it Sean. I bet all the clubs are regularly in the CL and so if we achieve that goal we will rocket up the chart. The haters will argue “why aren’t we in the CL and why don’t we spend more” but of course we have only just “arrived”
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Have added to the article
LETS START ACTING LIKE A RICH CLUB THEN
Nice one Sean i only wanted to see the list.All those graphs & things on the link had me all over the place.Thing is with these lists they look good but it dont suddenly mean you are flush with transfer funds does it.I just dont work that way 😀
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Cheers Sean. My point is a good one then, we are the only club in the top 20 without regular CL experience. We are on the cusp my friends we are on the cusp! We have only been in the LS 6 months I’d say take off begins next summer in terms of spending the money.
What was that stuff you was on about WHUISA on KUMB earlier John?
I aint got time to go trawling through it,im busy.What was the gist of what they were saying?
Any truth in it or just sour puss crap? 😀
Sour Pusscrap. That’s a great name for a cocktail!
There is a discussion thread on Kumb for the WHUISA and it’s occupied by the usual clowns that can see no good in our club and simply want to oust the board. It’s the usual sort of stuff but if they think they’ll get taken seriously by the club and the rest of the support I think they’re wrong. They’re celebrating passing 500 members and are calling for WHUISA badges and t-shirts so they can spot one another lmao.
I’ll be honest I’m on a bit of a downer on the whole idea as I just think it gives a voice to the haters whereas what I want is for the fans to work with the club. As I said below if Sean was involved I’d join tomorrow but I just see rabble rousing. That’s not to say I don’t respect their views as I do but their agenda isn’t the same as mine. Getting a bit heavy there I know but I just see too many fans wanting the club to fail rather than to succeed.
I do support the aims of WHUISA and know all those on the committee. I believe they need to pick their battles and Tuesday’s blogger meeting wasn’t one of them. They will be add the SAB meeting next Tuesday. I am a member of the new reduced SAB also. I stepped down from WHUISA last year from the position of joint chair to allow Paul Christmas to take over the reins. We founded WHUISA back in 2013 but it had been inactive for several years so it is great it has a new committee to drive it forward. They plan to go to the members to re-elect the committee when they reach a certain number of members, at that point anyone can stand for election to the committee. I am hoping they forge a good relationship with the club and have offered my help in the background where ever needed.
But i thought you was a club stooge Sean lol 😂
Some call me that
Thanks for that additional info Sean. Don’t want to be a complete nerd, but won’t their CL money show up next year rather than this? The revenue would be revenue in the 2015/16 season wouldn’t it? Leicester’s gate revenue wouldn’t be much, although I know that is becoming much less important as a % of total revenue. Just seems a big jump, but if the CL really makes that much difference that explains it.
You are correct, this is for last season so the major element for them is the £93m TV money They will likely jump up the table next season with the Champs League money
My agenda being for the Club to move forward and have success. Changinging what we can but not trying to change what we can’t. I go back to the Martin samuels article – the whinging has to stop at some stage and we need to move forward.
Hammer64 made me laugh seeing Real MAdrid demoted below Barcalona by 0.1M lmao yea he right, I reckon Deloittes have a Catalan on the staff lol