Eye on the prize Football Money League Deloitte Sports Business Group January 2020 A Deloitte Football Money League 2020 | Top 20 clubs FC Barcelona reach the top of the Money League for the first time and become the first club to break the €800m revenue barrier. It is a Spanish one-two for the second consecutive year; however, the positions swap with Real Madrid dropping to second place. B Deloitte Football Money League 2020 | Contents Contents Introduction 02 Ups and downs 09 Money League clubs positions 1-10 10 Eye on the prize 30 Money League clubs positions 11-20 34 The leading view on the business of football 54 Deloitte Football Intelligence Tool 56 Edited by Sports Business Group Dan Jones Telephone: +44 (0)161 455 8787 PO Box 500, 2 Hardman Street, Sub-editors Manchester, M60 2AT, UK Sam Boor and Timothy Bridge E-mail:
[email protected] www.deloitte.co.uk/sportsbusinessgroup Authors Theo Ajadi, Zoe Burton, Matt Dwyer, January 2020 Tom Hammond and Calum Ross 01 Deloitte Football Money League 2020 | Introduction Introduction Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Deloitte Football Money League in which we profile the highest earning clubs in the world’s most popular sport. Published just eight months after the end of the 2018/19 season, the Money League remains the most contemporary and reliable independent analysis of the clubs’ relative financial performance. There are a number of metrics, both We recognise that certain clubs are actively again, and particularly in North London, financial and non-financial, that can using the transfer of players as part of with the rise of Spurs to a new record high be used to compare clubs including their overall financial strategy and that of eighth driven by reaching the UEFA attendance, worldwide fan base, broadcast this approach can generate significant and Champions League Final, whilst Arsenal audience and on-pitch success.