Deloitte Money League: Manchester City ranked as top performing football club in the world in terms of revenue
For the first time, Manchester City have been ranked top of the Deloitte Football Money League. The defending Premier League winners were only the fourth club in history to top Deloitte’s annual ranking of the best-performing football clubs in terms of income.
Manchester City climbed from sixth to first in revenue for 2022, with £571.1 million (€644.9 million) in 2020-21. Since the first year of the Money League, which covered the 1996-97 season, their annual total has increased by roughly 45 times.
Real Madrid finished in second with €640.7 million and Bayern Munich came in third with €611.4 million, making them the only two clubs to produce more than €600 million in revenue in both the 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial years.
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Barcelona (€582.1 million) dropped to fourth, while Manchester United (€558 million) slipped to fifth, their lowest position ever. The top ten were Paris Saint-Germain (€556.2 million), Liverpool (€550.4 million), Chelsea (€493.1 million), Juventus (€433.5 million), and Tottenham (€406.2 million).
Premier League clubs dominate the higher ranks, with 11 Premier League teams in the top 20, including Wolves, who are ranked in the top 20 for the first time.
Due to the consequence of playing behind closed doors during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, matchday revenues across the leagues fell to an all-time low of €111 million, or 1% of the teams’ total revenue.
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Broadcast revenue grew by €1.4 billion between 2019 and 2020. However, this was mostly due to funding being deferred after domestic contests were halted and then completed later in the year.
The clubs in the Money League collectively collected €8.2 billion in revenue, a decrease of more than €1 billion from the previous year.
“Money League clubs have missed out on well over €2bn of revenue over the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons as a result of COVID-19,” Deloitte said.
