West Ham enter world’s top 20 super rich elite

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